Summary
Graham Poulter is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 19 years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale, production ML and pipeline systems, currently ensuring reliability for Google Speech & Assistant. He specializes in SLO-driven reliability, MLOps, capacity management and migrations, with a track record of reducing ML inference outages and plumbing SLOs through complex tenant configurations. Comfortable deep in code and system design, he combines troubleshooting, automation and monitoring to make it safer and faster to launch features at scale. He has led onboarding and training, mentored interns who became hires, and driven cross-team infrastructure standardization across Ads. Trained in applied mathematics and bioinformatics, he brings analytical rigor and a propensity for optimizing pipeline-style architectures that often hide subtle failure modes. Based in Dublin, he blends operator discipline with software engineering to deliver measurable reliability improvements.
19 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Bioinformatics, Master of Science Bioinformatics at University of Cape Town