Chris McClure

Chris McClure

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Senior Engineering Manager | Reliability, Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Operations | Driving Stability and Execution
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

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  • Array
    Senior Engineering Manager
    Array
    Dec 2025 - Current (11 months)
    Oversee infrastructure and product engineering teams responsible for building customer facing products and the systems that support them.

    My focus is building teams with strong ownership, clear priorities, and accountability for results. I develop engineers and technical leaders, partner with product and engineering leadership to set direction, and help teams turn complex problems into work they can own and deliver.

    Current responsibilities span product development, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, reliability, developer productivity, and incident management. This includes leading major reliability and modernization efforts, improving engineering delivery, reducing operational risk, and building systems and
  • Array
    Site Reliability Engineering Manager
    Array
    Jul 2024 - Dec 2025 (1 year 6 months)
    Led the SRE team responsible for reliability, cloud infrastructure, and production operations across critical customer facing systems. Improved operational maturity through stronger observability, incident management, automation, and clear service ownership while reducing infrastructure cost and recurring production issues.
  • Array
    Staff Site Reliability Engineer
    Array
    Mar 2024 - Jul 2024 (5 months)
    Joined Array as a Staff SRE focused on improving the reliability and scalability of cloud and hybrid infrastructure. Led technical improvements across infrastructure automation, observability, CI/CD, and production operations while partnering with engineering teams to improve how services were built, deployed, and supported.
  • Radio Engineering Industries
    Senior Software Architect
    Radio Engineering Industries
    Aug 2023 - Mar 2024 (8 months)
    Led modernization of REI’s fleet video platform, used in public and school transit systems nationwide.
    • Directed migration from a legacy monolith to a microservices architecture using C#/.NET
    • Rebuilt infrastructure automation with Terraform and moved CI/CD to Azure DevOps
    • Owned sprint planning, team delivery, and prioritization across stakeholders
    • Collaborated closely with product and sales to align engineering work with customer needs
    • Championed early use of AI tools to speed up development, testing, and QA environment provisioning
  • Petal
    Infrastructure Engineering Team Lead
    Petal
    Jan 2023 - Aug 2023 (8 months)
    Key contributor at a venture-backed fintech startup ($750M+ raised) offering credit products to underserved consumers.
    • Led initiatives to modernize infrastructure using Terraform, Helm, Python, and Docker
    • Managed critical upgrades, including AWS RDS improvements and SOC 2 compliance efforts
    • Migrated legacy CI/CD pipelines to modern, scalable workflows
    • Partnered with product, security, and data teams to align engineering efforts with audit readiness and long-term platform reliability
    • Developed internal processes that reduced unplanned work and improved sprint delivery predictability
  • Petal
    Senior Software Engineer
    Petal
    Mar 2022 - Jan 2023 (11 months)
    Making sure the lights stay on and the app doesn't stop working.
  • S
    Independent Consulting
    Startup Engineering Consultant
    Apr 2021 - Feb 2024 (2 years 11 months)
    As an Independent Consultant, I specialized in creating MVPs and early-stage products for startups and small businesses. My role involved guiding technical strategies, mentoring engineers, and modernizing engineering practices to enhance productivity and scalability. I partnered closely with founders to align technical solutions with their business goals.
  • PenLink Ltd
    Engineering Lead – Cloud Platform & DevOps
    PenLink Ltd
    Jun 2016 - Mar 2022 (5 years 10 months)
    Led the cloud engineering team at a law enforcement data platform supporting real-time analysis and complex investigations.
    • Directed a team of 4 engineers responsible for Azure infrastructure and app delivery
    • Oversaw CI/CD modernization using Azure DevOps and YAML pipelines
    • Built and maintained .NET and Xamarin apps using MVVM and iDesign patterns
    • Guided the transition from on-prem enterprise software to a cloud-based SaaS platform
    • Managed cross-functional contractor collaboration to deliver on an aggressive cloud roadmap
  • V
    Project Manager Intern
    VentureTechNet
    Jan 2016 - Jun 2016 (6 months)
  • R
    Radiology Technologist and Author
    Sep 2000 - Feb 2015 (14 years 6 months)
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  • Southeast Community College
    Associate's degree, Computer Programming, Specific Applications
    Southeast Community College
    Jan 2016 - Jan 2018 (2 years 1 month)
  • Community College of the Air Force
    Radiologic Technology/Science - Radiographer
    Community College of the Air Force
    Jan 1999 - Jan 2000 (1 year 1 month)
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