Portfolio // Director of Engineering, Infrastructure

Christopher Leslie

Infrastructure & Platform Engineering Leader. 20 years building systems that run when no one is watching.

U.S. Citizen Secret Clearance (held) TS (in adjudication)

Career Arc

2007 - 2011

ISSO / IT Analyst

ITT / Exelis. DoD-certified facilities.

2011 - 2015

Systems Engineer

Prime Focus World / NASA Armstrong. 500+ node datacenter, FISMA-compliant environments.

2015 - 2021

Systems Engineer to Head of Technology

FuseFX. Scaled from 3 to 8 sites, team from 6 to 23.

2021 - Present

Director to VP to CIO

Red 6 Aerospace. Employee #12. Built the entire infrastructure organization from zero.

By the Numbers

Years in infrastructure

Datacenters built or deployed

Cloud environments: Azure GCCH, AWS GovCloud, Azure Commercial

6 → 0

Engineers scaled at peak (FuseFX), 12 at Red 6

Assets managed across environments

LLM accuracy across 1,200-point eval suite

Key Projects

Team Building & Mentorship

People I hired, developed, and watched outgrow the role. Click through to verify.

Architecture // On-Prem LLM Platform

Click any node for details. All inference runs on dedicated GPU hardware. No data leaves the building.

Design Philosophy

Boring Beats Clever

Predictable systems are reliable systems.

Operable at 2 AM

If the on-call can't fix it half-asleep, it's too complex.

Auditable by Default

Every action logged. Every change traceable.

Minimal Cognitive Load

Simplicity scales. Complexity collapses.

Clear Ownership

Every system has a name next to it.

"Good design is as little design as possible." Dieter Rams

Presentation

Technical Stack