Michael Rye

About Michael Rye

I am a Senior Production Engineer with over 25 years of experience specializing in the reliability, observability, and automation of global enterprise systems. Throughout my career, I have defined leadership through Technical Ownership - identifying systemic bottlenecks and leading the transition toward modern, code-driven architectures. I am particularly interested in UNIX/Linux administration, Splunk administration, automation, monitoring, capacity, and how AI can enhance all of the above.My most notable impact involved leading a \"zero-touch\" automation initiative to upgrade Splunk Universal Forwarders, reducing a two-month manual coordination cycle into a two-week automated rollout. I thrive in high-stakes environments where Results Driven engineering and Building Coalitions across distributed teams are the keys to maintaining 99.9% availability.Core Expertise:* Observability: Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana.* Infrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes (GKE), Terraform, Ansible.* Reliability: Confluent Kafka, Linux/UNIX Administration, Incident Response.

Experience

1. Engineer, Observability

   Shopify

   Jul 2022 — Present

   Drive global production observability and reliability for high-throughput containerized workloads, collaborating with distributed engineering teams to deliver automated monitoring and incident response solutions that maintain 99.9% availability across massive-scale GKE environments.Tech Stack: Splunk, Grafana, Kafka, GKE, ClickHouse, and GCP.

Education

• Milwaukee School of Engineering

  Computer Science and Engineering

  1989 — 1994

Skills

• Server Administration
• Unix
• Xml
• Mq
• Soa
• Message Queue
• Sdlc
• Websphere
• Networking
• Enterprise Architecture
• Db2
• Integration
• Websphere Mq
• Software Development
• Web Services
• Servers
• Systems Engineering
• Websphere Application Server
• System Administration
• Ibm Db2