Christopher Box
About Christopher Box
Christopher Box is a Site Reliability Engineer at OANDA, specializing in performance and reliability challenges through coding in Python, Bash, and Go. He has extensive experience in technical roles across various companies, including Telmetrics Inc, BlueCat, and Cimetrix Solutions Inc.
Work at OANDA
Christopher Box has been employed at OANDA as a Site Reliability Engineer since 2021. In this role, he addresses performance and reliability challenges by writing code in Python, Bash, and Go. His contributions are integral to product development. Prior to his current position, he worked at OANDA as a Technical Operations Specialist from 2018 to 2021, where he gained valuable experience in operational support.
Previous Experience
Before joining OANDA, Christopher Box held several positions in the technology sector. He worked at BlueCat as an Enterprise Support Engineer from 2016 to 2018 and as a Senior Technical Support Analyst for 10 months in 2016. He also served as a Technical Services Consultant at Cimetrix Solutions Inc. from 2011 to 2015. His early career included roles as a Network Administrator at E-Tech Computing and as a Junior Windows Systems Administrator at Telmetrics Inc.
Technical Expertise
Christopher Box possesses expertise in utilizing the Prometheus/AlertManager/Cortex/Grafana stack for monitoring, instrumentation, and observability. He actively participates in a cross-functional on-call rotation to support production code deployment via PagerDuty. Additionally, he advocates for cloud adoption and standardization using Kubernetes, Cloudflare, and CNCF tools across both on-premise and cloud environments.
Education and Qualifications
Christopher Box studied at Durham College, where he achieved a degree in Computer Systems Technology (CSTY) from 2009 to 2011. He also attended the School of Business at Durham College, further enhancing his educational background in technology and business practices.
Operational Practices Leadership
In his role, Christopher Box leads the blameless post-mortem process to improve operational practices. He integrates remediation tasks into the development pipeline, ensuring continuous improvement in operational efficiency and reliability.