Chris Arcand

@chrisarcand.com

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👨‍💻 Principal Engineer @ IBM / HashiCorp 🛠️ Cloud infra & distributed systems w/ Golang & Ruby 🏒 Cpt of the Dangling Pointers™, Minnesota’s premier shitty beer league hockey team St. Paul, MN https://chrisarcand.com

The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, "What is your stance on AI?" and my answer was very short. I said, "I'd rather die." --Guillermo del Toro
A picture of a wood tone Les Paul guitar.
A profile screenshot of me on a recruiting platform that lists "top 1% of Go engineers globally" amongst other things, and also "NOT Active on weekends"
A headline reading "Welcome to the era of agentic productivity."
Me in an IBM hoodie
A screen showing the enablement button in settings for Claude's new web search preiew.
A screenshot of the Zed editor, which has completely replaced my use of vim/nvim.
Our pond hockey team, the Dangling Pointers, on a rink at the 2025 US Pond Hockey Championships
A homemade Zamboni, which is basically a yard cart with a tote full of water, PVC piping, and a wet towel.
Back view of a homemade Zamboni, which is essentially a yard cart with pvc piping and a towel.
My kids skating on a frozen pond
A picture of Oak Ridge Pond in White Bear Lake, MN
David Celis and I
The partially frozen pond in my back yard.
My family and I celebrating my birthday
The 'old' Bluesky logo I randomly found back in the day, poorly added to my site
Cinderella’s castle in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World
A young Harrison Ford in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”
View from a boat on a Minnesota lake with a laptop
A plate of oysters
A view from a plane overlooking the Rockies in Montana.
Working on my deck outside with the pup sleeping nearby.
Me in my basement containing gym equipment and hockey stuff, doing dry land hockey drills with a video.
A Minnesota Wild hockey jersey
A wall full of hockey jerseys
A diagram showing how TFC's Vault-backed dynamic credentials work
A picture of the documentation page for Terraform Cloud's Vault-backed dynamic credentials