Summary
Guillaume Plessis is a Senior SRE Manager based in San Francisco with 14 years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale cloud-native platforms. He has led SRE and infrastructure teams at companies like Automox and WeWork, managing multi-tenant Kubernetes fleets, API gateways, and SOC2/SOX-compliant platforms supporting thousands of apps and hundreds of developers. As a former VP of Infrastructure and technical founder, he combines strategic roadmap and OKR ownership with deep technical skills in Terraform, Helm, AWS, and observability tooling to drive automation and reliability. He’s comfortable switching between high-level people management—performance reviews and career development—and rolling up his sleeves to refactor infra code or optimize MySQL topologies. A pragmatic problem-solver, he also runs a consulting/architecture practice that has deployed high-traffic web apps for 30+ clients, demonstrating a sustained entrepreneurial streak alongside enterprise experience.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSE in computer science, multimedia & communication architecture, MSE in computer science, multimedia & communication architecture at Institut I.M.A.C - Paris 2
English, German, French