Kit Hoffman is a SRE Director at Apprentice.io. They possess expertise in sql, databases, technological innovation, web development, technology design and 17 more skills. Colleagues describe them as "I worked with Kit very closely for two and a half years (I was his manager). Kit is awesome, and had an immense impact on our organization. For Apprentice strong SRE expertise is critical - our software had the most extreme reliability and quality requirements that I have worked with over 25 year career. We had several products, each of which had unique reliability requirements, from real time video conferencing, augmented reality, mobile devices deployed into environments with poor wifi, and customers with high scalability and performance requirements. The software had a highly complex deployment and upgrade process as well, all with very strict change management requirements. Certain failures could affect patient safety or cause an FDA audit. Kit gets things done - he is motivated, results-focused, and a strong technologist that understands all layers of the stack. For the first year, he was the main SRE engineer supporting an increasingly large organization (up to 40 engineers). As we grew we were able to give him budget, Kit grew the SRE team and ensured that our processes scaled - a small team was able to manage hundreds of deployments comprising thousands of containers. Kit shows great leadership, and is able to handle high degrees of ambiguity. In addition to improving our current platform, Kit proactively looked ahead, and saw that our existing platform would run into scaling limits, as well as have a cost profile that would be a problem at higher scale. He advocated for and initiated a new generation of our deployment architecture, which became a major project and priority. He foresaw this and sounded the alarm several quarters before this would become an issue, showing great foresight. Kit is a pleasure to work with. One of the key aspects of SRE success is collaborating with many different constituencies, and Kit definitely was the go to person for the organization. Whenever we had an outage or a complex customer escalation, I always knew I could count on Kit and his team, and was able to sleep better at night knowing Kit is with us." and "Kit is very creative and always thinking of innovative solutions. Truly an outside-of-the-box thinker. Great sense and use of humor (his "Cure for Malaria in Africa" presentation comes to mind). Deals with uncomfortable situations really well (example: giant spiders). Adventurous. He was an amazing and fun person to work with and I would definitely work with him again."