Alasdair King
Staff Site Reliability Engineer At LinkedIn
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolAlasdair King is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer at LinkedIn with 13 years of experience building and operating high-performance, scalable infrastructure. He brings deep expertise in High Performance Computing from roles at Cambridge, Oxford and Edinburgh, translating research-grade HPC practices into resilient production systems. At LinkedIn he progressed from Senior SRE to staff level, focusing on reliability, performance tuning and large-scale service operations. Alasdair combines academic rigour (MSc in High Performance Computing) with hands-on systems engineering and a background in computer security and forensics. Based in the New York City metro area, he is comfortable bridging research and industry needs to deliver pragmatic, measurable improvements. Colleagues describe him as someone who surfaces subtle performance bottlenecks before they become incidents.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MSc High Performace Computing, MSc High Performace Computing at The University of EdinburghHigh School, High School at George Heriot's SchoolBEng Computer Security and Forensics, BEng Computer Security and Forensics at Edinburgh Napier University
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machination/machination
Jun 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:11 commits in 1 year
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