Dominic Hargreaves
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Google
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDominic Hargreaves is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with over 22 years of systems engineering experience, currently driving reliability at Google from Oxford. He blends hands-on infrastructure work—Ansible, Debian, Perl, PostgreSQL, Ganeti/Xen/KVM—with leadership in operational strategy, incident response and team development. A long-time Debian developer and former maintainer of Perl packages and Request Tracker integrations, he contributes upstream bug fixes that improve configuration compatibility and stability. Dominic has led large-scale migrations (email, IMAP, account databases) and built resilient services for universities and growing software companies, demonstrating careful planning and seamless execution. He values openness and ethics in engineering, is active in community projects, and brings an unusual mix of technical theatre and music-making interests that inform his collaborative, user-focused approach.
22 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Physics, BA, Physics at University of Oxford
Github Skills (8)
configuration-management10
issue-tracking10
perl10
bug-tracker10
bugtracking10
openssl8
ticket-tracking7
ticket-system7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bestpractical/rt
Nov 2009 - Jun 2017
Request Tracker, an enterprise-grade issue tracking system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 12 PRs, 7 comments in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Dominic's commits focus on bug fixes and improvements to the core functionality of the Request Tracker system. They addressed issues related to GPG configuration, corrected logging methods, and fixed an incompatibility with the File::Which library. The user also adapted SMIME probing for compatibility with OpenSSL 1.1 and modified the configuration loading to match the dual-loading of RT_SiteConfig.pm. These changes reflect a focus on system stability, compatibility, and configuration management.
helpdesk-ticketingtrackerenterprise-gradegradeperl
jmdh/ircd-hybrid
Sep 2015 - May 2023
A lightweight, high-performance internet relay chat daemon.
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 9 months
relaydaemonchatperformanceinternet-relay-chat
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