Austin Mckinley
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Bluesky Social
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Mckinley is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Seattle with 14–15 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems across startups and major platforms. He has a strong mix of hands-on engineering and people leadership, having created Robinhood’s observability team and grown it from zero to nine engineers while owning logging, tracing, metrics, and profiling. His background spans roles at Facebook, Cloudflare, Imgur, Phacility, and now Bluesky Social, giving him deep operational experience in high-traffic, real-time services. Austin pairs a Carnegie Mellon computer science education with practical SRE instincts, often favoring pragmatic tooling and automation to reduce toil. Colleagues would note he’s equally comfortable debugging production incidents and scaling engineering teams, and he tends to prioritize measurable observability improvements that pay back in reliability.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (93)
dashboard10
prometheus-exporter10
opentelemetry10
monitoring10
golang10
scalable10
phabricator10
kubernetes10
svn10
mysql10
java10
prometheus10
facebook10
multi-tenant10
graphing9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
amckinley/cortex
Jun 2020 - Nov 2020
A horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus.
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
golangscalabletenantprometheus-exporterlong-term
amckinley/cortex-heap
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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