Colm Kelly

Overview

Based in Dublin. I work on cloud infrastructure at Anchor Health. Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 33% in two quarters. Built the experimentation framework 7 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: Sky and Workday. Board games, hiking, and terrible puns.

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Experience

1. Staff Site Reliability Engineer

   Sep 2022 - Present
   Anchor Health · 4 yr 1 mo · Contract · Dublin, Ireland
   • Wrote the Go service that now handles 14 million requests a day.
   • Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Grew the infrastructure team from 5 to 33 engineers.
2. Site Reliability Engineer

   Oct 2020 - Sep 2022
   Sky · 1 yr 11 mo · Contract · Dublin, Ireland
   • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 810ms to 171ms.
3. Senior Site Reliability Engineer

   Oct 2018 - Oct 2020
   Workday · 2 yr · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
   • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 364ms to 152ms.
   • Built the experimentation framework 35 product teams use to ship changes safely.
4. Site Reliability Engineer

   Sep 2016 - Oct 2018
   Rightmove · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
   • Moved 95% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
5. Site Reliability Engineer

   Oct 2014 - Sep 2016
   McKinsey & Company · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
   • Wrote the Kubernetes service that now handles 42 million requests a day.

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Education

1. Durham University

   BA, Computer Science
   2011 - 2014