Christie Wilson

Christie Wilson is a software engineer. She is a frequent speaker on CI/CD and related topics at conferences like Kubecon, OSCON, QCon, PyCon and more. Christie started her career in mobile web application development, working on backend services for AAA games where she wrote features that wouldn’t be used until the big launch, when everyone would use them at once. To enable that, she built systems for load and system testing.

Leveraging the experience she gained at these previous companies dealing with complex deployment environments, high criticality systems, and bursty traffic patterns, she moved on to work at Google where she built internal productivity tooling for AppEngine, bootstrapped Knative, and created Tekton, a cloud native CI/CD platform built on Kubernetes (currently contributed to by 65+ companies).

books by Christie Wilson

Grokking Continuous Delivery

  • September 2022
  • ISBN 9781617298257
  • 424 pages
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Grokking Continuous Delivery is a friendly guide to setting up and working with a continuous delivery pipeline. Each chapter takes on a different scenario you’ll face when setting up a CD system, with real-world examples like automated scaling and testing legacy applications. Taking a tool-agnostic approach, author Christie Wilson guides you each step of the way with illustrations, crystal-clear explanations, and practical exercises to lock in what you’re learning.