Andrew Petalik is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Waterloo, Ontario with six years of SRE-focused experience and a deep background in enterprise Linux and big data operations. He currently drives reliability at Cloudera, after managing large-scale Hadoop and infrastructure platforms as a senior Big Data administrator at Canadian Tire and as a global Linux specialist at BlackBerry. His career spans hands-on systems work from VMware ESX support to teaching Unix, scripting, PHP and Perl—giving him a rare blend of customer-facing support, educator communication, and low-level systems expertise. Known for pragmatic automation and resilience engineering, he consistently translates operational complexity into repeatable, documented processes. Comfortable in both corporate and academic environments, he pairs long-term infrastructure stewardship with an eye for maintainable tooling and on-call excellence.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
College de L'Outaouais
High school diploma, High school diploma at Ecole secondair de l'Ile
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Andrew Petalik - Site Reliability Engineer at Cloudera