Henry Slater
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Google
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHenry Slater is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating low-latency, highly reliable systems across Google and the UK Civil Service. He bridges development and operations, specialising in release engineering, performance-sensitive C++ systems and Python automation to improve UX and deployment velocity. Based in Edinburgh and currently working across London and Greater London, Henry has progressed through SRE roles in Dublin and London, bringing deep production instincts from legacy government systems to hyperscale cloud environments. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, build-and-measure approaches to outages and rollouts, and he favors actionable observability over theoretical models. Outside of day-to-day SRE work he retains a developer’s curiosity, contributing code and tooling that reduce toil and accelerate safe releases.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at The University of Manchester
German
Github Skills (5)
forwarding9
monitoring6
agent6
golang5
prometheus5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hnjslater/ypcal
Apr 2020 - Jul 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
hnjslater/cpplask
Jul 2013 - Aug 2019
Contributions:34 commits, 16 pushes in 6 years 2 months
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