Cole Christie
Senior Engineering Manager, SRE at Gap Inc.
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCole Christie is a Senior Engineering Manager specializing in Site Reliability Engineering with 11 years of experience building and scaling observability and SRE organizations across healthcare, retail, and SaaS. He has a track record of turning reactive teams into proactive, metrics-driven organizations—leading teams at Gap, Attentive, and Invitae to reduce MTTR/MTTD, codify team culture, and operationalize SLIs/SLOs at massive telemetry scale. Cole blends hands-on platform engineering (Kubernetes, Prometheus, FluentBit, Terraform, GitHub Actions) with people leadership, hiring pipelines, and developer experience improvements that enable rapid, safe delivery. Notably, he drove automation that reduced incident review times from hours to minutes and cut synthetic check false alarms from ~30% to under 5%, while founding internal open-source practices across 80+ repositories. Based in California, he holds an M.S. in Information Security from Georgia Tech and brings a systems-first mindset shaped by early cloud and operations leadership in academia.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree (M.S.) Information Security, Master's Degree (M.S.) Information Security at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor's Degree (B.S.) Information Systems, Bachelor's Degree (B.S.) Information Systems at University of California, Riverside
Github Skills (48)
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genomics10
structural-biology9
sequence-analysis9
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java9
protein-data-bank9
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sequence-alignment9
pdb9
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bioinformatics9
pdb-files9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MrColeC/Dashboard
Jun 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:1 release, 74 commits, 50 pushes in 3 years 4 months
rcsb/rcsb-viewers
Mar 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 45 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 3 months
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