Amy Tobey
Cloud Platform SRE
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmy Tobey is a Cloud Platform SRE and seasoned software engineer with nearly two decades of hands-on experience building resilient, observable systems for large-scale services including Netflix, GitHub, and Equinix. She combines deep operational expertise—SRE, incident command, OpenTelemetry instrumentation—with leadership that bootsrapped teams, defined SLOs, and created learning-focused incident review programs. Amy is a prolific reliability toolmaker (pcstat, otel-cli) and contributed OTEL integration to notable open-source projects like Tinkerbell, bridging low-level observability with production workflows. Her background spans from low-level Linux performance and databases to cloud-native Kubernetes/Terraform stacks, and she frequently communicates those lessons as a speaker and educator. Based in Grand Rapids, she has a track record of shipping practical tooling and quietly “working herself out of a job” by leaving teams operationally self-sufficient. Colleagues know her as a reliability nerd who blends pragmatic engineering with strong cross-team influence.
19 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Central Michigan University
Japanese
Github Skills (16)
opentelemetry10
json10
command-line-interface10
docker10
go10
dockers10
command-line10
cli10
grpc9
linux9
filesystem9
bare-metal9
performance-analysis9
cicd8
kubernetes-pods7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tobert/pcstat
Apr 2014 - Jan 2023
Page Cache stat: get page cache stats for files on Linux
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 64 commits, 14 PRs in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Amy primarily focused on enhancing the `pcstat` tool's functionality. Their contributions included refactoring to support multiple output formats, adding JSON output, implementing terse output, and incorporating a histogram visualization. They also made improvements such as calculating cache percentages, including timestamps, and adding support for the -pid flag. Furthermore, they refactored the code, improved the formatting and added documentation.
page-cachelinuxstatstatscache
tinkerbell/tink
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
Workflow Engine for provisioning Bare Metal
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 14 commits, 3 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Amy Tobey primarily focused on integrating OpenTelemetry (OTEL) instrumentation throughout the Tinkerbell project. Her contributions included adding OTEL to the gRPC server and client, and also to the `tink-cli` and `tink-worker` commands. She updated the `go.mod` file with relevant dependencies and made adjustments for Docker API changes. Additionally, she merged in master branch changes and updated test containers to make them compatible with docker changes.
bare-metalprovisioningmetalyangtinkerbell
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