Summary
Andy Bolton is a Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of software and DevOps experience who blends object-oriented engineering discipline with practical SRE practices to keep production systems resilient. Based in Fruita, Colorado, he advanced from software engineer roles into SRE at Smartwyre, applying five-plus years of backend development experience from BrightBean Labs to operationalize reliability and observability. His background in philosophy and library/information science gives him a methodical, documentation-first approach to systems design and incident management. Comfortable across the stack, he focuses on automating toil, improving deployment pipelines, and hardening services for scale. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous requirements into maintainable infrastructure and clear runbooks.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Philosophy, Bachelor's Degree, Philosophy at Fort Lewis College
Coursework, Library and Information Science, Coursework, Library and Information Science at The University of British Columbia
English