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Chris Routh (He/Him)

@Routhinator@tenforward.social
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Principal Engineer I at Menlo Security

Sci-Fi/Fantasy nerd, Gamer, Father, Senior IT Guy, lover of the outdoors and temperate climates.

199 Followers
293 Following
16 Posts
Joined April 29, 2022
Location:
Campbell River, BC, Canada
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Chris Routh (He/Him) @Routhinator@tenforward.social · Jul 26, 2026
Chris Routh (He/Him)
@Routhinator@tenforward.social

Principal Engineer I at Menlo Security Sci-Fi/Fantasy nerd, Gamer, Father, Senior IT Guy, lover of the outdoors and temperate climates.

tenforward.social
Replying to @golgaloth@writing.exchange
@golgaloth@writing.exchange this is why the US is the hyper religious civilisation everyone is trying to escape from in The Chrysalids.
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Chris Routh (He/Him) @Routhinator@tenforward.social · Jul 26, 2026
Chris Routh (He/Him)
@Routhinator@tenforward.social

Principal Engineer I at Menlo Security Sci-Fi/Fantasy nerd, Gamer, Father, Senior IT Guy, lover of the outdoors and temperate climates.

tenforward.social
First rule of IT Cats, a portion of the desk must be dedicated to sleeping. Indium is on her break. #caturday #catsofmastodon
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Chris Routh (He/Him) @Routhinator@tenforward.social · May 25, 2026
Chris Routh (He/Him)
@Routhinator@tenforward.social

Principal Engineer I at Menlo Security Sci-Fi/Fantasy nerd, Gamer, Father, Senior IT Guy, lover of the outdoors and temperate climates.

tenforward.social
Replying to @Pinchy63@ottawa.place
@Pinchy63@ottawa.place @Nonilex@masto.ai nor can I.
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Chris Routh (He/Him) @Routhinator@tenforward.social · Apr 17, 2026
Chris Routh (He/Him)
@Routhinator@tenforward.social

Principal Engineer I at Menlo Security Sci-Fi/Fantasy nerd, Gamer, Father, Senior IT Guy, lover of the outdoors and temperate climates.

tenforward.social
Replying to @oration@mastodon.social
@oration Air Creebec is an amazing name. I love it.
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Chris Routh (He/Him) @Routhinator@tenforward.social · Apr 15, 2026
Chris Routh (He/Him)
@Routhinator@tenforward.social

Principal Engineer I at Menlo Security Sci-Fi/Fantasy nerd, Gamer, Father, Senior IT Guy, lover of the outdoors and temperate climates.

tenforward.social
Replying to @brian_gettler@mas.to
@brian_gettler man my attendance was 15% of my grade in high school in Ontario. So sounds like they haven't changed that.
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Chris Routh (He/Him) @Routhinator@tenforward.social · Apr 05, 2026
Chris Routh (He/Him)
@Routhinator@tenforward.social

Principal Engineer I at Menlo Security Sci-Fi/Fantasy nerd, Gamer, Father, Senior IT Guy, lover of the outdoors and temperate climates.

tenforward.social
Replying to @emilylowan@mastodon.social
@emilylowan the NDP have lost my vote because of these decisions.
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Chris Routh (He/Him) @Routhinator@tenforward.social · Mar 20, 2026
Chris Routh (He/Him)
@Routhinator@tenforward.social

Principal Engineer I at Menlo Security Sci-Fi/Fantasy nerd, Gamer, Father, Senior IT Guy, lover of the outdoors and temperate climates.

tenforward.social
Replying to @emilylowan@mastodon.social
@emilylowan We need a petition against this entire motion. I do not want my tax dollars going to this guys salary or AI at all. I'm tempted to calculate the percentage Eby's government is wasting on AI and withhold that from this years taxes.
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Chris Routh (He/Him) @Routhinator@tenforward.social · Feb 25, 2026
Chris Routh (He/Him)
@Routhinator@tenforward.social

Principal Engineer I at Menlo Security Sci-Fi/Fantasy nerd, Gamer, Father, Senior IT Guy, lover of the outdoors and temperate climates.

tenforward.social
Replying to @fuchsi@chaos.social
@fuchsi@chaos.social @wendinoakland@beige.party @FredricT@mastodon.opportunis.me @yjeanrenaud@tech.lgbt Meta glasses are the spyware. This is the adblocker.
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Chris Routh (He/Him) @Routhinator@tenforward.social · Feb 14, 2026
Chris Routh (He/Him)
@Routhinator@tenforward.social

Principal Engineer I at Menlo Security Sci-Fi/Fantasy nerd, Gamer, Father, Senior IT Guy, lover of the outdoors and temperate climates.

tenforward.social
Replying to @dalias@hachyderm.io
@dalias@hachyderm.io @MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk as a Canadian I am surprised. Big difference between taking a leak and intentionally exposing yourself with intent to harass or offend someone. Technically urination in public is illegal here, but I know very few people ever fined for it. And its just a fine.
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Chris Routh (He/Him) @Routhinator@tenforward.social · Feb 14, 2026
Chris Routh (He/Him)
@Routhinator@tenforward.social

Principal Engineer I at Menlo Security Sci-Fi/Fantasy nerd, Gamer, Father, Senior IT Guy, lover of the outdoors and temperate climates.

tenforward.social
Replying to @dalias@hachyderm.io
@dalias@hachyderm.io @MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk .. Where in the world does peeing in public get warped into being a sexual offence? Honest question. I find this shocking...
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Chris Routh (He/Him) @Routhinator@tenforward.social · Feb 07, 2026
Chris Routh (He/Him)
@Routhinator@tenforward.social

Principal Engineer I at Menlo Security Sci-Fi/Fantasy nerd, Gamer, Father, Senior IT Guy, lover of the outdoors and temperate climates.

tenforward.social
Replying to @HarlequinBastard@mastodon.social
@WakinUniverseJo@rivals.space @tenzochris@mastodon.social @HarlequinBastard@mastodon.social I don't see a horse sinking into depression in this picture.
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Chris Routh (He/Him) @Routhinator@tenforward.social · Jan 15, 2026
Chris Routh (He/Him)
@Routhinator@tenforward.social

Principal Engineer I at Menlo Security Sci-Fi/Fantasy nerd, Gamer, Father, Senior IT Guy, lover of the outdoors and temperate climates.

tenforward.social
Replying to @njsg@mementomori.social
@njsg@mementomori.social @EveHasWords@toot.cat once upon a time, most book covers didn't have pictures.
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Chris Routh (He/Him) @Routhinator@tenforward.social · Nov 22, 2025
Chris Routh (He/Him)
@Routhinator@tenforward.social

Principal Engineer I at Menlo Security Sci-Fi/Fantasy nerd, Gamer, Father, Senior IT Guy, lover of the outdoors and temperate climates.

tenforward.social
Replying to @stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au
@stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au @deech@mastodon.social that sounds like the ultimate "spaghetti" code, but in this case the noodles are threads.
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Chris Routh (He/Him) @Routhinator@tenforward.social · Nov 19, 2025
Chris Routh (He/Him)
@Routhinator@tenforward.social

Principal Engineer I at Menlo Security Sci-Fi/Fantasy nerd, Gamer, Father, Senior IT Guy, lover of the outdoors and temperate climates.

tenforward.social
Replying to @chechar@mastodon.social
@chechar@mastodon.social I thought us-east-1 was where all the non redundant services were kept.
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Chris Routh (He/Him) @Routhinator@tenforward.social · Nov 16, 2025
Chris Routh (He/Him)
@Routhinator@tenforward.social

Principal Engineer I at Menlo Security Sci-Fi/Fantasy nerd, Gamer, Father, Senior IT Guy, lover of the outdoors and temperate climates.

tenforward.social

So what are the career options for a senior engineer in the IT industry that avoid AI entirely in 2025?

I'm tired, boss. Tired of keeping my mouth closed about it at work. Tired of waking up angry that my employer and industry at large are:

* Pushing hard to adopt an absolute crap technology with very low accuracy and consistency, which additionally has had noticeable affects on certain co-workers ability to understand a problem and picture the solution (those who seem to be offloading their thinking to AI over the last year have notably degraded in these areas)
* Supporting the enrichment of billionaire fascists who want to manipulate and control the truth and control the population to make themselves richer.
* Supporting the re-ignition of coal power plants and burning significant amounts of power and water to fuel these inefficient garbage bots.
* Generally increasing affordability problems on all fronts while also accelerating the climate disaster that will be central to my sons future.

I wake up every day angry, stressed, and mournful that I am contributing the destruction of my son's future while begrudgingly going to work in the name of his present; in order to keep him clothed, fed, and try to eek out some chance of a better financial future for our family.

I'm not sure how much longer I can keep helping drive the engine of the very destruction I want to put an end to.

There must be some companies out there doing things without AI and making technology choices that are moral. They can't all be sycophants feeding the investor greed machine.. help me find them. I need to know there are some options.

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Chris Routh (He/Him) @Routhinator@tenforward.social · Jul 17, 2025
Chris Routh (He/Him)
@Routhinator@tenforward.social

Principal Engineer I at Menlo Security Sci-Fi/Fantasy nerd, Gamer, Father, Senior IT Guy, lover of the outdoors and temperate climates.

tenforward.social
Replying to @Viss@mastodon.social
@Viss@mastodon.social @crocodisle@woof.tech so far all of your reasoning has zero to do with the infrastructure or deployment practice of choice. Its all poor dev practices and repository layout. There are ignore files for this. There are rule enforcement engines and free scanners like rego and trivy to prevent these mistakes. Its just a product of the VC driven rat race in Tech these days. No one takes time because they feel they don't have time, or the work gets slapped into a tech debt epic and deprioritized in favour of company goals. Put it on the most tried and true tech possible and without the time to wisely layout code and its delivery, and you'll get someone's local dev files in production... Every. Damn. Time.
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