Garrett Bates
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Close
United States
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Top SchoolGarrett Bates is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with nine years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure for trading platforms, analytics startups, and open-source-minded organizations. He specializes in Kubernetes-first architectures, multi-tenant deployments, and observability—having authored a Databend operator in Go, designed multi-regional GKE/Argo ApplicationSet deployments, and implemented tenant-aware logging/metrics stacks. Garrett combines a software engineering background with hands-on SRE practice, from HashiCorp Nomad and Vault in high-throughput trading systems to cost-optimizing EKS clusters that saved thousands monthly. Comfortable across Python and Go, he also automates developer workflows and DR tooling, including local k3d dev environments with remote debugging. Based in the United States, he brings pragmatic engineering tradeoffs to greenfield projects and complex migrations, often turning operational pain points into repeatable automation.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Kent State University
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Github Skills (128)
plotly-dash10
python10
flask10
data-exploration10
data-engineering10
data-analytics10
data-viz10
superset10
data-visualization10
asf10
data-science10
warehouse10
apache10
analytics10
business-analytics10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
PlaidCloud/incubator-superset
Jun 2018 - Mar 2022
Apache Superset (incubating) is a modern, enterprise-ready business intelligence web application
Contributions:4 reviews, 90 PRs, 317 pushes in 3 years 9 months
incubatingdata-analyticsapache-supersetweb-applicationapache
PlaidCloud/docs
Nov 2018 - May 2021
PlaidCloud Documentation
Contributions:38 PRs, 52 pushes, 45 branches in 2 years 6 months
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