Chris Cousin

Los Angeles, CA

Sr Manager, Central Cloud Infrastructure @ Metropolis Technologies

Engineering leader
Building the platforms and teams behind what ships next

Senior engineering leader with 15+ years building and leading global organizations across infrastructure, SRE, security, QE, and product engineering. I establish the foundational standards, self-service tooling, and AI-driven workflows that let teams move fast, reduce costs, and deliver with confidence.


A bit about me

I lead engineering organizations at the Director+ level, building the foundational standards that reliable platforms depend on. From golden paths and architectural review boards to AI-enhanced developer tooling and self-service platforms, I create the conditions where global teams across SRE, infrastructure, security, and product engineering do their best work.

I believe the best engineering leaders remove friction. Whether that means leveraging AI to streamline operations, building self-service platforms that give developers autonomy, or setting governance that scales without slowing teams down. That's how I lead.

Years of experience15+
Cloud cost reduction40%+
Products & verticals supported15+

Where I've worked

Sr Manager, Central Cloud Infrastructure

Metropolis Technologies · Santa Monica, CA

Nov 2025 – Present

Leading a global central cloud infrastructure team at Metropolis, the largest parking operator in North America and pioneer of the Recognition Economy. Metropolis builds an AI-powered intelligence layer for physical infrastructure across parking and beyond, enabling checkout-free, frictionless experiences for 1M+ new members every month across 4,500+ North American locations.

Sr Director of Engineering

fabric · San Francisco Bay Area

Oct 2024 – Apr 2025

Led global engineering teams across architecture, SRE, QE, and security. Reduced COGs by 20%+ through FinOps ownership, drove a multi-region active-active migration achieving 99.99% SLA, and established engineering governance including an architectural review board.

Sr Director of SRE

Uplight (formerly AutoGrid) · Boulder, CO (Remote)

Aug 2021 – Sep 2024

Grew and led a global SRE organization, scaling infrastructure to support 3M+ devices while achieving a $2M+ (40%) annual reduction in cloud spend. Drove 10x infrastructure scaling and launched an ArgoCD delivery platform that doubled deployment frequency across 19 global environments.

Sr. SRE Manager

Everbridge · Burlington, MA (Remote)

Apr 2018 – Aug 2021

Led and scaled a global team of 12+ engineers supporting a $40M+ ARR product vertical. Spearheaded migration of 50+ microservices to Kubernetes, established DevOps culture, and ensured FedRAMP and ISO 27001 compliance.

DevOps Manager

Ring · Santa Monica, CA

Apr 2016 – Sep 2017

Managed 30+ engineers across SRE, DevOps, DBA, NOC, and Release. Maintained scalable AWS infrastructure of 2,000–10,000+ global instances and redesigned the customer-facing API architecture to a modular monolith.

Sr Systems Engineer

RentPath · Brentwood, CA

Apr 2014 – Jan 2016

Owned systems engineering for a large-scale real estate media platform, driving infrastructure reliability and operational improvements.


What I bring to the table

Engineering StrategyDevSecFinOpsCloud-Native ArchitectureSRE & Platform EngineeringAI-Enhanced OperationsSelf-Service PlatformsFoundational Standards & GovernanceFinOps & Cost OptimizationAWS / GCP / AzureKubernetes & ArgoCDCI/CD & DevOpsProduct EngineeringPlatform as a ProductDeveloper Experience (DX)Organizational ScalingEngineering LeadershipTeam Building & Mentorship

Let's connect

Looking for a senior engineering leader who can scale your platform, build your team, and set the technical direction? Let's talk.

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