Ian Bartholomew
Staff Platform Engineer
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Bartholomew is a Staff Platform Engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading Site Reliability and platform teams that enable faster, safer shipping at scale. He has repeatedly scaled SRE orgs from early-stage to enterprise maturity, designing resilient AWS and Kubernetes architectures and maturing observability, incident response, and release engineering practices. At Assured and prior high-growth companies like Nobl9 and sweetgreen he balanced hands-on platform work with engineering management and organizational design to turn reliability into a measurable business metric. Ian emphasizes reliability as both culture and architecture, tying uptime and cost efficiency to product outcomes and FinOps practices. Based in Los Angeles, he’s known for mentoring engineers into technical leads and managers while operationalizing CI/CD, Terraform-driven infrastructure, and observability programs. A designer-turned-engineer with a BFA in Design and Technology, he brings a creative approach to systems and team-building that helps surface non-obvious reliability improvements.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Design And Technology, Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Design And Technology at San Francisco Art Institute
Github Skills (125)
specification10
schema10
yaml10
golang10
cli10
selenium-webdriver10
schema-validation10
spec10
aws10
webdriver9
bdd9
codeceptjs9
nightmare9
testing9
faraday9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
OpenSLO/oslo
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
CLI tool for the OpenSLO spec
Contributions:21 releases, 49 reviews, 128 commits in 1 year 8 months
golangyamlopenslospeccli-tool
OpenSLO/openslo.github.io
May 2021 - May 2021
The source code of
Contributions:4 reviews, 31 commits, 3 PRs in 2 days
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