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Chris Harris

Selected Work

The architecture briefs below are illustrative and are not presented as completed client engagements. Verified leadership experience is featured on the homepage.

Illustrative Architecture | SaaS

Multi-Region SaaS Migration to GCP

What happened: Legacy deployment topology caused unreliable releases and scaling failures.

Architecture approach: Rebuilt platform on Terraform-managed GCP foundation with GKE and staged cutover plan.

Intended outcomes

  • Cut deployment risk with staged rollout controls
  • Reduced environment drift through IaC standardization
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Illustrative Architecture | B2B Platform

CI/CD Modernization for Faster Safe Releases

What happened: Manual release steps caused long lead times and risky deploy windows.

Architecture approach: Introduced automated pipeline gates, environment promotions, and rollback policy.

Intended outcomes

  • Increased release frequency with lower incident risk
  • Standardized promotion workflow across environments
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Illustrative Architecture | Fintech

Observability Hardening for Incident Response

What happened: Teams lacked clear telemetry and alerting signal during production incidents.

Architecture approach: Implemented unified logs, metrics, tracing, and on-call alert policy with SLO context.

Intended outcomes

  • Reduced time-to-detect and time-to-recovery
  • Improved signal quality across alerts
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