Chris Forrette

Core member of a small SRE team maintaining and evolving cloud infrastructure for Splice, a music platform serving millions of creators. Responsible for AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and developer enablement. Joined as a Site Reliability Engineer and promoted to Senior in 2022.

• Authored the SRE team's North Star strategy document and multiple cross-functional RFCs; mentored engineers within and across teams, including supporting one teammate's promotion to Senior SRE.
• Owned CI/CD platform evolution over multiple years: migrated from Jenkins to self-hosted GitHub Actions on EKS, reducing build times by 75% and deploy times by 50%; later replaced the self-managed EKS cluster with a managed service (Depot), cutting maintenance burden for a small team and saving $30–60K/year.
• Owned Datadog observability end-to-end: optimized usage, authored best practices, and renegotiated contracts—reducing annual spend by $50K+ over multiple cycles.
• Managed cloud networking across multiple AWS regions (VPCs, public/private subnets, peering connections) and Cloudflare (DNS, WAF); governed Terraform workflows via Atlantis with semantically versioned modules across production, pre-production, and internal environments.
• On-call throughout my entire tenure at Splice, stepping in on complex incidents across team and codebase boundaries and translating findings into durable platform improvements: alerting, runbooks, and infrastructure changes that prevent recurrence.

Stack: AWS (ECS, EKS, RDS/Aurora, SageMaker, CloudFront, S3), Cloudflare, Kubernetes, Terraform/OpenTofu, Atlantis, AWS CDK, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Tailscale, Docker, Go, Python, Bash, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
Methodologies: Kanban, service-oriented architecture, infrastructure as code, serverless

Reporting to the CEO, worked on an early-stage startup's SaaS product. Monitored infrastructure and stability, maintained SOC 2 Type 2 compliance, built and maintained third-party integrations, and planned and built features. As the sole remote employee for an otherwise co-located team, quickly came up to speed on unfamiliar components—including event-driven architecture, backend services, and protobufs—shipping features within the first few weeks.

Stack: AWS (ECS, EC2, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB), Terraform, Jenkins, Go, Python, React.
Methodologies: Agile, microservices, event-driven architecture, REST.

Worked with a team of developers in Valiant Labs, Nike's internal startup incubator, building an e-commerce platform that partnered with social media influencers to design limited-edition shoes, with a private design-submission system and an internal admin UI on microservices architecture.

Led build of the API backend to meet the unpredictable scaling demand of one-week releases—withstanding nearly one million requests in a single campaign and supporting monthly revenue upwards of $260K.

Stack: AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, ECS, CloudFormation), Node.js, Elasticsearch, React, GraphQL.
Methodologies: Agile, microservices, serverless.

Hired and managed the engineering team, set technical strategy, and built the infrastructure and backend for an events-focused mobile and web product—unit tested, wired to CI, monitored—that catalogued 1M+ events.

Stack: AWS (Lambda, SQS), Heroku, Terraform, CircleCI, Node.js, Elasticsearch, React, React Native.
Methodologies: Agile, REST, progressive web app.

Oversaw a team of freelance developers delivering websites for clients including Epitaph Records, Remo, and Hopworks Brewing, in a hands-on role spanning code, sales, business development, and project management.

Stack: AWS, Heroku, Python, Node.js, Elasticsearch, HTML, CSS, JavaScript (Backbone).
Methodologies: Waterfall, REST, single-page app.

A monthly Portland tech meetup with a thoughtful, intentional focus on diversity and inclusivity.

Coached a small group through an in-depth Django introduction workshop.