Merritt Bettineski

About Merritt Bettineski

Highly experienced Site Reliability Engineer with over two decades of experience in software and web delivery. Extensive experience operating and architecting high traffic systems in AWS and Azure, with a focus on Observability systems. Familiarity with a diverse collection of open source, SaaS and provider-native tools and stacks. Demonstrated success in troubleshooting critical systems, implementing solutions, managing teams and projects, and achieving cost savings through right-sizing and lifecycle management. Seeking a Senior SRE role where I can leverage my expertise to help drive the success of the organization.I embrace the DORA and Google SRE principles of eliminating toil, prioritizing system resiliency and scalability over features, and engendering a blameless culture that builds upon success and learns from mistakes. I am a champion of providing self-service solutions and frameworks to empower stakeholders, reduce duplication of effort and streamline bottlenecks. I have a long history of building teams and ensuring that work is aligned with the departmental goals. I have an affinity for observability systems, identifying indicators of potential blind spots and ensuring that systems are providing value in alignment with KPIs. I thrive under intense situations like on-call incident response and code deployment, but I also relish the opportunity for focused project work, pair programming collaboration, and team celebration.

Experience

1. Site Reliability Engineering Manager

   Denali Advanced Integration

   Mar 2024 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

Education

• University of Washington

  157/180 credits attained towards BA + BS, English Literature major; New Media Studies & Botany minors

  1992 — 1997

Skills

• Jira
• Jenkins
• Bug Tracking
• Scrum
• Test Automation
• Testing
• SEO
• Software Quality Assurance
• Bugzilla
• Quality Assurance
• Chef
• Linux
• Agile Methodologies
• Test Planning
• Selenium