Rob Mcdonough
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Netlify
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolRob Mcdonough is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of experience building and operating resilient infrastructure and alerting systems. He has advanced through hands-on SRE roles at New Relic—supporting and evolving their Alerts stack—and now leads Infra and Forward SRE efforts at Netlify, focusing on reliability at scale for a modern web platform. Comfortable bridging support, engineering, and on-call responsibilities, he brings a pragmatic, incident-driven approach to reducing toil and improving observability. His background in sociology gives him a user-centered lens for incident communication and cross-team collaboration, helping translate technical trade-offs into actionable operational improvements.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Sociology, Master of Science (M.S.) Sociology at University of OregonBachelor of Science (B.S.) Sociology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Sociology at Portland State University
Github Skills (63)
authentication10
jwt10
gitapi9
netlify8
continuous-testing7
netlify-functions7
buildbot7
command-line-interface7
multiarch7
cli7
nodejs6
marketplace6
openflow6
docker-machine6
linux6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
lexicondevil/s-s_alpha
Aug 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
lexicondevil/flask_wedding
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 27 pushes, 2 branches in 15 days
pythonflasklearning-flaskwedding-rsvprsvp
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