Guy Tabrar
Engineering Manager at Fastly
Chalfont St Giles, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGuy Tabrar is an engineering manager with 10 years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, currently leading teams at Fastly after roles as Staff Engineer and multiple SRE and platform leadership positions. He specializes in Go development and Kubernetes operations, with a strong background in platform engineering across Fastly, Mux and large enterprises like BNP Paribas. Guy blends hands-on coding with people leadership, guiding EMEA platform efforts and scaling production infrastructure for streaming and edge workloads. His career trajectory shows repeated returns to Fastly, signaling deep domain expertise in edge networking and reliability engineering. Based in Chalfont St Giles in the UK, he pairs formal vendor training (Oracle, IBM WebSphere/MQ) with practical systems engineering experience dating back to telecoms and media. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic technologist who prefers solving hard operational problems through engineering rather than process alone.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Chalfonts Community CollegeIBM WebSphere Application Server and MQ 8.5 Administration, IBM WebSphere Application Server and MQ 8.5 Administration at RSM TrainingAmersham & Wycombe CollegeOracle University
Github Skills (17)
api6
jail6
rest-api5
rest5
freebsd4
ram4
golang4
gnu4
performance-tuning3
debug3
debugging3
linux2
windows1
terminal-emulator1
microsoft1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tabrarg/jest
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
A ReST api for creating and managing FreeBSD jails written in Go
Contributions:29 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
golangapifreebsdjailrest
tabrarg/gobench
Jan 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 13 pushes, 2 tags in 1 year 1 month
benchmarkingload-testingtestingbenchmarkperformance
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