Chris Dobbyn

Background

About Chris Dobbyn

With 20+ years of professional experience in technology, I specialize in building scalable, resilient, and automated infrastructure that ensures reliability and performance. I thrive at the intersection of software engineering and operations, bridging the gap between development and production to create highly available systems. My background in government and healthcare has given me deep expertise in designing secure, compliant, and mission-critical platforms. I follow SRE principles to enhance system reliability, reduce toil, and improve incident response and observability. Key Expertise: Cloud Platforms: AWS | Azure Infrastructure as Code: Terraform | CloudFormation | Ansible Reliability & Performance: SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets Containerization & Orchestration: Kubernetes | PodMan | Docker CI/CD: ArgoCD | GitHub Actions | Jenkins | Spinnaker Security & Compliance: HIPAA | SOC 2 Observability: NewRelic Prometheus | Grafana | ELK Stack How I Make an Impact: Reduced mean time to recovery (MTTR) by 50% through proactive monitoring and automation. Led Kubernetes migrations, improving scalability and cost efficiency. Implemented SLO-driven alerting, cutting down alert fatigue and improving response times. Automated cloud infrastructure, reducing manual operations by 80%. I’m passionate about optimizing system reliability, reducing operational toil, and enabling engineering teams to move fast without sacrificing stability. If you're looking for an SRE who thrives on automation, scalability, and performance, let's connect!