Speaker

Chris Wahl

Chris Wahl

Delivery Director, Slalom

Austin, Texas, United States

A friendly and pragmatic technologist who enjoys being thrown into challenging situations and solving problems with a diverse and inclusive set of peers. Driven to design and deliver technical solutions that are simple and scalable.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology
  • Government, Social Sector & Education

Topics

  • Continuous Integration
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Cloud Architecture
  • API Design
  • Containers
  • Multi-Cloud
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Service Oriented Architecture
  • Platform Engineering

Forging a New Path to Equitable Justice – Platform Engineering for State Government

Transforming public sector teams for cloud-native success: Strategies for operational excellence in platform engineering.

FEATURED PRO TALK -Constructing Open Source SDKs for Ops Teams with REST and GraphQL

Operations teams are the front line team that have to install, configure, manage, and maintain a complex set of infrastructure and services. Getting a solid, well-documented SDK into their hands can turn manual, painful processes into simple automation tasks. However, as many APIs are shifting from REST to GraphQL, new approaches to tooling are often required. In this session, you’ll hear about how a small team of engineers builds and maintains a collection of open source SDKs focused on operations teams and how they added support for GraphQL endpoints.

Constructing a Consistent and Stable User Experience with REST and GraphQL APIs

APIs are a fantastic way to extend the functionality of a solution across the data center and public clouds. However, as a solution expands the features and available use cases, the complexity of an API surface area scales in parallel. In terms of cloud data management, it can be difficult to create a consistent and deterministic experience when dealing with a huge quantity of integration points (virtual machines, cloud native workloads, file servers, physical servers, hypervisors, etc). At the same time, the user experience is directly impacted by the quality of documentation and frequency of communication, which are often overlooked by project teams. In this session, you’ll hear about the construction of REST and GraphQL APIs that are used by infrastructure engineers and cloud architects around the globe for data management and the various challenges tackled to deliver an exceptional user experience.

DeveloperWeek Global Series 2020-2021 Sessionize Event

September 2020

DeveloperWeek Austin 2019 Sessionize Event

November 2019 Austin, Texas, United States

API Days San Francisco 2019

Constructing a Consistent and Stable User Experience with REST and GraphQL APIs

July 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Tech Girls are Superheroes

Creating a ChatBot

June 2019 Sydney, Australia

KBCM Emerging Technology Summit

February 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies (IOCS) Conference

Unleash Game-Changing Agility with Rubrik

December 2018 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Chris Wahl

Delivery Director, Slalom

Austin, Texas, United States