Michael Lewis
Staff SRE at Shopify
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Lewis is a Staff SRE with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale web and distributed systems, currently at Shopify in Seattle. He brings hands-on expertise shipping production services in Ruby, Go, and Python and running infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes, Consul, Elasticsearch, and configuration tooling like Chef and Puppet on AWS. Michael has led engineering teams of 3–12 people, emphasizing psychological safety and mentorship to help engineers grow while maintaining operational excellence. His background spans roles from SDE in test to senior SRE and engineering manager, giving him a rare blend of deep platform engineering skills and people leadership. Unusually for a systems engineer, he holds degrees in philosophy and law, which inform his pragmatic, thoughtful approach to risk, observability, and process.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy at University of WashingtonDoctor of Law (J.D.), Doctor of Law (J.D.) at University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Github Skills (51)
testing9
spec9
chaos9
packer-plugin9
inspec8
tcp8
tdd8
proxy8
audit8
security8
inspector8
universal-binary8
devops7
simplify7
terraform-provider7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
getoutreach/oauth2_proxy
Aug 2017 - Jun 2020
A reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Github or other provider
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 3 comments in 2 years 10 months
authenticationproviderproxyreverse-proxy
frightenedmonkey/munger
Aug 2012 - Aug 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 3 pushes in 3 years
pythonhosts-filednshostsaddresses
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