Summary
Brent Mckee is a seasoned Site Reliability Engineering leader with 15 years of experience building and operating large-scale, highly available systems across LinkedIn, Facebook, Garmin, and Siden. He specializes in production stability for complex distributed services—particularly search, social graph, and online relevance systems—and has led SRE teams embedded with product engineering to own availability, monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning. At Facebook he managed production engineering for ZippyDB, and at LinkedIn he directed SRE efforts for core recommendation and indexing services, demonstrating deep expertise in real-time, globally replicated infrastructures. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Brent blends hands-on systems engineering roots (UNIX, Puppet, SAN/NAS, virtualization) with strategic leadership, and is known for a pragmatic "I like to fix stuff" approach that turns firefights into lasting reliability improvements.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BBA Management Information Systems, BBA Management Information Systems at Wichita State University