Chris Timberlake is a Software Engineer and DevOps Consultant. He began his journey at a young age building video games and hacking operating systems. The first operating system he ever bought was a boxed copy of Red Hat 7 located in the back of a Hastings Audio Visual store. Since then, he went on to enjoy a decorated career at Red Hat and GitLab. Today, he runs his own consulting firm and works as a Solutions Architect for GitLab.