Summary
Chris Dobbyn is a Senior Reliability Engineer with two decades of technology experience and over a decade focused on cloud, SRE, and DevOps practices. He designs and automates secure, compliant, mission-critical platforms—particularly for government and healthcare—using Terraform, Kubernetes, and GitOps to improve availability and reduce manual toil. Chris has a proven track record of cutting MTTR in half, implementing SLO-driven alerting to reduce alert fatigue, and driving Kubernetes migrations that improved scalability and cost efficiency. He’s equally comfortable writing Python/Django applications and building the infrastructure to run them reliably, reflecting a career that evolved from deskside support and network operations to cloud architecture and SRE leadership. Based in Victoria, BC, he brings practical mentorship experience from leading teams through cloud strategy and IaC adoption. A detail that often surprises colleagues: his early hands-on work running large event networks and payment systems gave him a real-world appreciation for reliability under pressure.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Camosun College
Glenlyon-Norfolk School