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Richmond, Victoria, Au

Responsible for leading the SRE function with a mix of leads and Principal IC reports, including some wider cross-company responsibilities.Budget controller for a number of sizeable (millions of USD) budgets, including AWS, Observability, MongoDB, etc.- Cut down expenses on AWS by >400k$ annually with no impact to end users (customers and engineers).- Built up data pipelines and dashboards to provide cost visibility to senior leadership, C-Suite and the board.- Implemented business reviews with key vendors (AWS, Datadog, PD) to provide feedback and prevent cost surprises.- Together with Finance, implemented proper financial strategy for growth in key areas (e.g. Observability)People leader for the SRE function and broader SRE practice.- Built up SRE to have the strongest engagement scores in the Product organisation despite a number of challenges, including company-wide layos and a number of reorgs.- Implemented a clear strategy and roadmapping initiatives, tying them to the company priorities. As a result, “role impact” surveys have strongly increased from 59% to 83% favourable.- Owner of the SRE engineering ladder, working out competencies, participating in compensation band reviews, improving interview process, etc.Trusted engineering advisor for the organisation and key decision maker on infrastructure:- Devised, Implemented and Landed migration to ARM, reducing compute costs by >20% while increasing performance.- Made, owned and communicated the tough call to drop a large failing infrastructure investment that was pending for years.- Participating in engineering reviews for evaluating and adopting new strategies and tech, e.g. Confluent, Temporal, Kubernetes, etc.Led the infrastructure side of achieving and maintaining SOC2 Type 2 compliance process - owned 26 controls and delivered ahead of time, uplifting necessary systems and processes, including Disaster Recovery, Vulnerability management, Encryption, Access, Inventory, etc.

New York, New York, Us

As an Expert, I provide strategic advice and guidance to the investment team and founders within the Primary portfolio and broader network.Primary is New York City’s premier early-stage venture firm working alongside founders to build unicorns like Alloy, Alma, Chief, Dandy Electric, Latch, K Health, Stellar Health, Slice, and many more.

Providing mentoring and advisory services to IT leaders, professionals and early-stage startups. Over 100 engagements and growing. Free sessions are available for early-career individuals and non-profits.For more information about my mentoring services or to schedule a session, please visit temikus.net/office-hours. I am always eager to connect with aspiring IT professionals and startups looking to make a mark in the industry.“Your mind shines brightest when you enlighten others; your heart, when you encourage others; your soul, when you elevate others; and your life, when you empower others.”― Matshona Dhliwayo

Collingwood, Victoria, Au

As an Engineering Director, I am responsible for a significant area of MrYum engineering. I lead SRE and Security functions with a mix of leads and individual contributor reports. My duties are:- Ensuring smooth execution of complex deliverables, e.g.: -- Delivering a cost-saving strategy for all of company infrastructure services, e.g. AWS, Datadog, Cloudflare, etc. -- Several complicated migrations for the business, e.g. moving the entirety of the serving stack from London to Frankfurt with zero downtime and transparently for the rest of the company. -- A number of deployments and onboarding of numerous new services, e.g. Temporal, Retool, Kanji, etc. -- Engineering of a developer-friendly service to provision and run secure workloads on K8s using service accounts.- Being responsible for the organization’s overall technical competence, guiding and growing it in the whole team as necessary via training and hiring, e.g.: -- Onboarded and started growing a new function (Security), with new engineers hitting the ground running in less than a month, taking over compliance and starting many successful cross-functional efforts. -- Grew the SRE team 3x and developed better onboarding processes to facilitate quick integration of new team members.- Responsible for guiding the goal-setting process for all of the teams across both functions, helping them articulate goals that support business initiatives, technology and organizational quality, e.g.: -- Successfully implemented a new team-driven long-term planning strategy by giving the engineers extended autonomy on how to solve company business goals, boosting morale, leading to more polished ideas and novel solutions.

Collingwood, Victoria, Au

Grew the entire SRE practice from zero and drove sweeping changes to the company's infrastructure and production environments, reducing the amount of customer-facing outages 10-fold.- Took MrYum global, scaling infrastructure to 3 regions (AP, US, EU).- Hired, onboarded and ran a happy and competent team of 4 people.- Built a robust observability and alerting platform on top of DataDog.- Moved the company to a modern canary deployment process with 1-click easy rollbacks.- Introduced robust and reliable autoscaling across the board.- Fostered a culture of blameless PostMortems and learning across engineering.- Developed a robust incident response practice.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Google Cloud Storage- Driving a project to implement and tune a new type of autoscaling, saving tens of thousands of core hours a year and reducing toil without impacting production traffic- Driving significant improvements to deployment/release cycle by completely overhauling the team's canary analysis practices based on sound statistical principles (ttest, interquartile ranges, etc.), allowing to eliminate a significant chunk of toil (10+ hours a week)Customer Reliability- Advised diverse portfolio of top Google Cloud customers on infrastructure and SRE practices, including: - Reviewing and implementing migration / disaster recovery plans for customers. - Driving insightful and blameless postmortems. - Fine-tuning Google Cloud Storage access patterns to optimise performance (e.g. using hedged requests to cut down on tail latency, implementing better naming practices to optimise metadata access patterns on high traffic volumes, optimising backoff patterns to reduce error sensitivity, etc.)

Mountain View, Ca, Us

A part of my time is officially spent working on Open Source projects benefiting Google Cloud customers. I’m a core maintainer for a number of repos, notably: - fog-google & fog.io, largest ruby infrastructure library (68+ million downloads) - Vagrant plugin for Google Compute Engine (vagrant-google) with 2000+ active usersDue to my heavy involvement with Open Source I often get called in by other teams for my expertise with Cloud API’s, Libraries and OSS DevOps tooling (e.g. vagrant, packer, terraform, ansible, chef, etc.).Achievements/Projects- Dramatic stabilization of fog-google library and associated CI Infrastructure - Brought the library to a single test suite from 2 broken flaky ones - Increased test coverage to 85%+ - Optimized and parallelized the CI reducing full integration cycle from 3+ hours to 30 minutes

Mountain View, Ca, Us

- Provide support, technical consulting services and incident response to top Google Cloud customers - Cloud infrastructure specialist, working with: GCE, GKE, Persistent Disk, Stackdriver, Cloud Networking, as well as associated API’s, tooling, frontends and backends- Global lead for developer tooling support, participating in the ongoing development and launch process - performing technical design, reliability, UX and supportability reviews of SDK’s, libraries, plugins, etc. across 7 languages.- Drove changes in Google Cloud's Open Source space by convincing stakeholders to modify the launch process to follow better standards of documentation, structure and community management.- Main customer stakeholder in “Ruby Cloud” team, driving better Ruby experience on Cloud Platform by collecting customer analytics, writing friction logs and participating in technical reviews for new libraries and runtimesAchievements/Projects- Launched support for 45+ products and major features- Authored the engineering oncall policy and process, drove and achieved 24/7 response across the Developer Tools space to achieve proper SLO’s- Designed, wrote and deployed analytics pipelines gathering data from a multitude of internal systems combining support, sales and engineering data, visualising them in meaningful ways. This allowed support and 130+ other teams (incl. PM’s, Developer Relations, researchers and upper management) to make quick data-driven decisions and better prioritise work items

Mountain View, Ca, Us

- CorpEng site-lead for Zurich, managing day-to-day IT operations, overseeing a massive (4+ new buildings) campus expansion, responding to infrastructure issues and doing planning/execution for site-wide IT projects- Part of MacOps Service team, maintaining and supporting 60k+ Macs in Google's Corporate environment. Beyond taking part in the daily activities of bug triage and routine maintenance, I have written management software (incl. re-architecting a major internal notification service with 120k+ active subscribers), handled packaging tasks and fleet-wide software deployment.

Stadtkreis 1 Altstadt, Zurich, Ch

Stadtkreis 1 Altstadt, Zurich, Ch