Christian Marie
Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Commonwealth Bank
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolChristian Marie is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with 12+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling resilient distributed systems across startups and large enterprises. He has led reliability programs at Canva and Commonwealth Bank, architecting fault-tolerant pipelines, AI-assisted incident management, and company-wide post-incident learning that serve millions of users. Equally comfortable in low-level systems and modern cloud platforms, his technical breadth spans Go, Python, Haskell, C, Ruby, Kubernetes, AWS and GCP, and he has contributed to the Haskell Servant library to improve API documentation and type-safe links. Christian excels at turning complex operational pain points into automated, product-aligned platform capabilities that boost developer velocity and reduce risk. A former recovery specialist in the Australian Army, he brings discipline and resilience to high-pressure incidents and platform migrations. He now focuses on helping teams convert intricate systems into reliable, maintainable platforms that connect engineering practice to business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (11)
document-generation10
typeset10
documents10
haskell10
api-design10
documentation10
monad-transformers6
language-agnostic6
programming-language6
monads6
fest4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
haskell-servant/servant
Jan 2015 - Jul 2016
Servant is a Haskell DSL for describing, serving, querying, mocking, documenting web applications and more!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 30 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Christian contributed to the `servant` library by adding new types and functions to improve API documentation generation. They implemented `DocIntro` and `DocNote` types to allow for extra documentation sections. Furthermore, they modified the `Servant.Utils.Links` module, enhancing the API for generating type-safe links, and improved the markdown generation of the documentation. They also addressed a bug related to the handling of empty request bodies.
web-applicationsservingqueryinghaskelldsl
christian-marie/rados-haskell
Jan 2014 - Aug 2014
Haskell bindings to librados (ceph)
Contributions:1 review, 71 commits, 1 PR in 7 months
haskellhaskell-bindingsceph
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