Summary
Ally Weir is a Senior Software Engineer based in Glasgow with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native, production-critical systems. Currently on GitHub’s Incident Lifecycle team, she has led improvements in incident response, availability, and bespoke tooling that help engineers act faster under pressure. Her background in site reliability and platform engineering includes designing Kubernetes-based PaaS, cutting CI/CD build times by up to 70%, and driving large cost-and-uptime improvements through migrations and automation. Comfortable across Python, TypeScript, Terraform and observability stacks, she couples hands-on engineering with mentoring and developer enablement initiatives. Notably, she co-founded internal learning communities and has a track record of turning operational pain points into self-service platforms that save hundreds of engineering hours annually.
12 years of coding experience