Hugh Cole-baker
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Aiven
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHugh Cole-baker is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer based in Edinburgh with 15 years of experience building and operating scalable, production-critical systems. He progressed from web developer and early DevOps at FanDuel—where he introduced Puppet-based configuration management and a Python-driven rolling deploy system—to technical lead roles shaping data pipelines and warehouses using Luigi. At Aiven he applies deep SRE practices across cloud-native infrastructure, combining hands-on tooling with operational leadership. He holds a first-class Computer Science degree from the University of Edinburgh and is known for turning developer-facing automation into durable, team-friendly platforms that survive rapid growth and high traffic.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 1st, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 1st at The University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (15)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
sigmaris/gitgraph-svg
May 2011 - May 2014
Contributions:71 commits in 3 years
sigmaris/dockerfiles
Sep 2019 - Mar 2025
My Dockerfiles
Contributions:1 PR, 43 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 6 months
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