Christopher House

Staff Software Engineer Platform Architecture

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Staff software engineer with 13+ years building distributed applications and developer platforms. Currently leading greenfield platform development at St. Jude Cloud, with experience modernizing enterprise systems across manufacturing and logistics. Hands-on across Azure, Kubernetes, .NET, and Angular, with technical leadership spanning development, operations, and automation.

Professional Experience

Staff Software Engineer — St. Jude Cloud

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Memphis, TNFeb 2026 – Present

Leading greenfield development of an internal developer platform for St. Jude Cloud, bringing infrastructure provisioning, delivery workflows, and developer self-service together.
Established golden-path service templates and ephemeral pull-request environments to give product teams consistent deployment defaults.
Integrated Port.IO to provide a developer portal for service catalogs and self-service actions.
Design and provision Azure infrastructure using Terraform and Crossplane for scalable, declarative cloud resource management.

Lead Technical Architect / Senior DevOps Engineer

International Paper

Memphis, TN2019 – Feb 2026

Architected and coded high-throughput C# APIs and Angular front-ends for Omega, a distributed enterprise platform serving 27 manufacturing sites.
Developed reusable Angular modules and Nx monorepo architecture, improving build efficiency and UI consistency across 30+ apps.
Standardized delivery with Azure DevOps pipelines automating builds, tests, containerization, and Helm deployments for APIs and Angular apps.
Implemented full observability using Elastic, Prometheus, and Fleet Agents — delivering near real-time insights across 250+ Linux and Windows servers.
Upgraded enterprise stack: .NET 6→8, Angular 7→20, Elastic 7→9, Docker→Podman — reducing tooling costs ≈$6.5K/year.
Mentored engineers across five Scrum teams in development, operations, and automation on Kubernetes, Helm, observability, and CI/CD practices.

Software Engineer

Louis Dreyfus Commodities

Memphis, TN2015 – 2019

Developed distributed trading and logistics software with real-time shipment and warehouse tracking features.
Built APIs and Angular interfaces in .NET Core to support operational visibility across multiple sites.
Managed CI/CD pipelines with Atlassian Bamboo, automating builds and deployments.

Software Engineer II

FedEx Services

Memphis, TN2013 – 2015

Built ASP.NET applications and automation tools for Technical Services, including a bulk-label system supporting $34M in annual revenue.
Developed web-based reporting dashboards using ASP.NET and JavaScript.

Selected Work

Platform Lab — working software and infrastructure

Working applications, developer tools, and a self-hosted AI service built with React, Cloudflare, and Firebase.

Internal developer platform patterns

Published reference implementations for service templates, ephemeral PR environments, and Kubernetes delivery workflows.

Core Skills

Platform & CloudAzure, AKS, Kubernetes, Istio, Port.IO, Terraform, Crossplane

Delivery & AutomationGitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, FluxCD, ArgoCD, Helm, Docker, Podman

Application Engineering.NET, C#, Angular, TypeScript, REST APIs, Nx, Redis, RabbitMQ

Observability & ReliabilityElastic, Kibana, Fleet, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, distributed tracing

Platform SecurityEntra ID, Auth0, TLS/PKI, network segmentation, secrets management

LeadershipArchitecture, modernization strategy, mentoring, cross-functional delivery

Education & Certifications

B.S. Computer ScienceMississippi State University

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)Professional Agile Leadership (PAL-I)Professional Scrum Master (PSM-I)Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS)Certified Scrum Developer (CSD)