Summary
Conan Rimmer is a seasoned software engineer based in Portland, Oregon, with 14 years of experience building and operating mission-critical systems and eight years focused on software engineering roles. He currently architects and runs an internal observability platform at Cisco Meraki, ensuring FedRAMP-compliant log aggregation, metrics, visualization, and alerting for high-availability workloads while serving on SRE on-call rotation. Conan has deep hands-on experience across observability, GraphQL APIs, Rails and Java services, and email/messaging infrastructure from roles at New Relic, Mystery Science, Groupon, and LivingSocial. He blends software development, SRE practices, and user-facing documentation to both scale platforms and enable teams to adopt best practices. Known for reducing operational toil and shipping pragmatic improvements, he’s comfortable in regulated environments and complex stakeholder landscapes. His background in QA and early systems work gives him a rare empathy for reliability and testability that informs his design choices.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology, General, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology, General at George Mason University