Chad S. Lauritsen - CV

216-849-5945 | planetlauritsen.com

Professional Summary

Senior Developer/Architect with over 20 years of experience in designing, developing, and deploying enterprise applications, including architecting software delivery pipelines to deploy 5000 Kubernetes clusters.

Key Skills

  • Cloud Platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure
  • Containerization: Kubernetes, Docker, Buildpacks
  • Programming Languages: Java, Kotlin, Python, Typescript, Go
  • DevOps Tools: GitHub Actions, Helm, Terraform
  • Architecture: Microservices, Serverless
  • Other: CI/CD, Agile methodologies, API development

Professional Experience

Lead IT Architect

The Sherwin-Williams Company | Cleveland, OH (Hybrid) 2024-present

  • Led the design and implementation of cloud-based solutions using Springboot, Kubernetes and AWS
  • Architected and deployed microservices and serverless applications, improving scalability and performance.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of projects.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes, reducing time-to-market.

Senior Services Engineer

PACE Anti-Piracy | Campbell, CA (Remote) | 2022-2024

  • Deployed on-premises Kubernetes infrastructure with RKE2
  • Designed & developed internal support tool with React & GraphQL-based microservice
  • Contributed to the migration from cloud VMs to containerization in Kubernetes

Developer/Manager/IT Architect

The Sherwin-Williams Company | Cleveland, OH (Hybrid) 2002-2022

  • Built a site for ordering color samples with J2EE
  • Led team to replace mainframe application collecting 250k transactions/day
  • Spearheaded effort to deploy 5000 Kubernetes clusters in each retail location

Education & Certifications

Bachelor of Arts, Music

University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner

2025

Projects

Payment Orchestration Services

  • Architected and supported a centralized service to coordinate card payment flows for all Sherwin-Williams applications. iLok Cloud GKE
  • Streamlined CI/CD for a cloud-hosted licensing server in GKE, reducing image size 100x drastically improving cold startup times

Next-Generation Point-of-Sale Platform

  • Architected a Kubernetes-based platform to run 5,000 clusters
  • Specified 15,000 bare-metal servers to run 5,000 3-node clusters
  • Migrated POS application & databases to Helm charts

SMIS: Data Hub for POS Transactions

  • Designed & led implementation of a system to collect 250k transactions per day from 4500 retail stores with nightly reporting and ETL jobs leveraging IBM MQ and Oracle Database.

Home Automation

  • Designed IoT hardware and software using Arduino and ESP8266 for a DIY smarthome with a HomeAssistant hub.