Barry Wainstock
Site Reliability Engineer at LinkedIn
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBarry Wainstock is a Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale Linux-based distributed systems across major tech companies in the Bay Area. Currently at LinkedIn, he brings deep Python scripting and systems expertise honed through roles at Apple, Taos (supporting Google/Apigee), and Barracuda. He combines practical operational skill—troubleshooting production systems and automating runbooks—with a scientific mindset from a BS in Chemistry at UC Santa Cruz, which informs his analytical approach to reliability engineering. Based in San Jose, he’s known for bridging hands-on sysadmin work and platform-level SRE practices to keep services resilient and scalable.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (43)
google-analytics9
webserver9
nginx8
gdpr8
vscode-extension8
ncurses8
tui8
monitoring7
goaccess7
vscode7
caddy7
cdn7
weblog7
command-line7
privacy7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bwainstock/dotfiles
Sep 2014 - Jan 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 5 pushes in 3 years 4 months
bwainstock/spot2map
Sep 2014 - Aug 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 6 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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