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Christopher Maher

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Director of Platform Engineering at Ashley Global Retail
📍 Greater Seattle Area, United States

Christopher is the Director of Platform Engineering at Ashley Global Retail, leading teams focused on DevOps and developer velocity. His career includes managing e-commerce and developer velocity teams at Twilio and Alaska Airlines, where he architected systems used by millions. He holds a Master of Science in Information Technology Management.

Outside of work, he is the founder of Defilan Technologies, where he develops open-source tools. A licensed ham radio operator (N7CPM) and self-described "prolific homelabber, " he has a passion for tinkering with hardware and building new things in his free time.

He created LLMKube, an open-source Kubernetes operator that enables organizations to run large language models in secure, air-gapped environments.

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Experience
9 Years
Current Role
Director of Platform Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Greater Seattle Area, United States
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Open-Source AI
He created and actively develops LLMKube, an open-source project to help organizations run AI models locally and securely on their own infrastructure.
Platform Engineering
His career is focused on leading platform, DevOps, and developer-velocity teams, with deep expertise in Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and automation.
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Career

Work history

8-2025
Director of Platform Engineering
Ashley Global Retail
4-2022 - 8-2025
Senior Manager, Software Engineering
Twilio
3-2020 - 4-2022
Software Engineering Manager
Alaska Airlines
7-2019 - 3-2020
Senior Software Engineer, E-commerce
Alaska Airlines
1-2019 - 7-2019
Software Engineer
Upbound
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Education
11-2021 - 1-2024
Master of Science - MS
Colorado State University Global
Bachelor of Arts
Seattle Pacific University
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