Hugh Nowlan
Site Reliability Engineering Manager at Wikimedia Foundation
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
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Top SchoolHugh Nowlan is a Site Reliability Engineering Manager with 13 years building resilient infrastructure and cloud migrations, currently leading SRE at the Wikimedia Foundation from Dublin. He has deep hands-on experience migrating legacy MediaWiki stacks to Kubernetes, rearchitecting media management services, and implementing Envoy-based API gateway systems. Prior roles at Etsy and Yelp focused on driving company-wide Terraform adoption, automating safe infrastructure changes, and facilitating large-scale moves to Google Cloud Platform. Early career work at eQualit.ie and Hosted Graphite blends systems engineering, security-driven tooling, and on-call reliability—he’s comfortable across Python, Ansible, and operational automation. Known for balancing team leadership with technical execution, he brings both incident-hardened pragmatism and a background in computer security and forensics to platform reliability challenges.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.A. Mod.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.A. Mod.) Computer Science at Trinity College DublinMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Security and Forensics, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Security and Forensics at Dublin City University
French, Spanish, Japanese, English, Irish
Github Skills (121)
mediawiki10
jenkins-api-plugin10
terraform10
infrastructure10
declarative10
jenkins-plugin10
paas10
k8s10
terraform-module10
puppet10
terraform-cloud10
hashicorp10
sensu10
foundation10
graph10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nosmo/Eircog
Jan 2016 - Jul 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 years 7 months
linuxwirelesskeyson-the-flyos-x
nosmo/toThingist
Feb 2014 - Jul 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 6 months
todoistsyncbidirectional
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