Geoff Oakham
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at BC Vernacular Jazz Dance Society
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolGeoff Oakham is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of experience who blends full-stack software development with operational infrastructure expertise to drive resilient, production-first systems. He led a successful shift to “Service Ownership” in 2019—building the tooling, training, and managerial buy-in so engineers run their services 24/7—demonstrating his strengths in change leadership as well as hands-on engineering. Geoff has operated at both startups and large tech firms, including FreshBooks, Meta (developer experience for ASIC teams), and ecobee, where he progressed into SRE leadership. A founder of a community-focused event platform and a long-time organizer in the swing-dance scene, he brings pragmatic product sense and community stewardship to technical problems. Based in Old Toronto, Geoff combines deep technical craft with a proven ability to align people, process, and tooling to make operations scalable and sustainable.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of TorontoLisgar Collegiate Institute
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Github Skills (98)
double10
graphene9
rabbitmq8
ansible8
relay8
streaming8
python8
messaging8
kubernetes8
ssh7
artemis7
amqp7
datadog7
golang6
currency-converter6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
g--/configsync
Jan 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:69 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 3 months
g--/python_easydate
Jan 2016 - Sep 2024
Datetime utility package for python 2.7 that makes datetime manipulation and time series generation very simple
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 8 years 8 months
datetimemanipulationpythontime-seriespython-2
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