Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Consulting
Reliability is a product feature. I help teams measure it, protect it and automate away the work that gets in the way, drawing on years as a Principal SRE running planet-scale on-premise and cloud environments.
What I help with
- Define and track SLOs, with the observability needed to make them trustworthy
- Incident management and post-mortem culture that improves systems instead of assigning blame
- On-call design that prevents burnout
- Capacity planning and usage forecasting for infrastructure growth
- Automation that removes SRE toil: upgrades, migrations and provisioning
- Chaos and resilience testing practices for production systems
Relevant experience
- Principal SRE (Consultant) at Virtasant since Feb 2024: planet-scale environments on-premise and on AWS
- Kept five 9's of availability through a full AWS ECS to EKS migration at Twilio Segment
- Improved the observability landscape for better SLO tracking of services
- Built an infrastructure usage-forecasting backend and growth dashboards
- Mentored engineers through their SRE and DevOps journey; interviewed SRE candidates worldwide
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