Chris Collins
Principal Site Reliability Engineer focused on containers and automation
Ewa Beach, Hawaii, United States
Joined February 2026
Summary
Experienced SRE and automation engineer who focuses on containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and building efficient operational tooling. redhat+2
Practitioner and educator: publishes practical how‑to guides and walkthroughs (containers, monitoring, Kubernetes) aimed at helping engineers adopt modern operational patterns. redhat+2
Active open-source contributor and builder of tooling: maintains GitHub projects that automate SRE workflows and demonstrate integrations with common observability and incident-response tools. github+2
Background bridging technical and non-technical domains: holds a BA in Performing Arts and participates in performing-arts activities, reflecting a mix of technical depth and creative interests. theorg+1
Community-facing writer and speaker: presents at conferences and webinars and authors accessible blog posts that translate SRE and container concepts for operators and developers. devopsdays+2
Work
Education
Projects
Writing
Book review: Site Reliability Engineering
July 1, 2019A short review recommending the SRE book for sysadmins transitioning toward SRE practices, highlighting programming-focused operations and team/process changes.
Deploy InfluxDB and Grafana on Kubernetes to collect Twitter stats
February 1, 2019A walkthrough for deploying InfluxDB and Grafana on Kubernetes/OKD and using a Python cron job to collect Twitter account statistics for visualization in Grafana.
How to build tiny container images
Practical techniques and considerations for creating smaller, more efficient container images (cleanup, layering, Buildah usage, purpose-built images, static binaries).
Various OpenSource.com contributions
Multiple articles and community contributions on automation, containers, and Kubernetes topics published on OpenSource.com.