Ellis Clayton
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Buildkite
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolEllis Clayton is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Melbourne with 11 years of experience building reliable, observable, and automated platforms across front-end and infrastructure domains. He started as a front-end engineer championing TypeScript and React, then moved into DevOps leadership where he led migrations to managed services, containerised CI/CD, and observability platforms like Datadog. Now at Buildkite he focuses on SRE practices—bringing developer ergonomics, platform tooling, and deployment automation together to reduce incident surface and accelerate delivery. Equally at home shipping TypeScript and exploring Rust in his spare time, he combines hands-on coding with cross-functional mentoring and stakeholder management. A practical systems thinker, he often surfaces hidden process improvements—turning developer pain points into durable platform investments.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Multimedia, Bachelor’s Degree Multimedia at Griffith UniversityDownlands College
English
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Github Skills (200)
declarative10
hybrid10
javascript10
browser10
buildkite10
static-site-generator10
typescript10
manager10
nextjs10
user-interface10
frontend10
react10
conventional-commits9
cli9
compiler9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
JackCuthbert/thermio-module-climate
Feb 2017 - Mar 2019
⛅️ Get temperature, humidity, and the heat index of the room and control the AC
Contributions:9 PRs, 16 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years
indexhumidityheatthresholdroom
everydayhero/cycling-cares
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:36 PRs, 83 pushes, 48 branches in 2 months
reactjsreact
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