Ian Billett
Engineering Team Lead at Bloomberg
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Billett is an engineering team lead and seasoned site reliability engineer with nine years of experience building and operating cloud-native, Kubernetes-based microservice platforms at scale. He has led teams at Red Hat, Improbable and Bloomberg, driving dramatic improvements in cost efficiency, deployment lead time and service reliability while growing teams and user adoption. Deep expertise in observability, Prometheus/Thanos, incident response and data pipelines is paired with hands-on contributions to the Thanos project—adding tracing for exemplar APIs, Katacoda tutorials and edge-case integration tests. He combines technical leadership with practical SRE instincts, having influenced capacity planning for managed Kubernetes launches and created consumption-based billing architectures. Known for translating developer activity data into engineering process changes, he reduces operational friction and accelerates delivery without sacrificing reliability.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MA Hons Economics and Chinese, MA Hons Economics and Chinese at The University of EdinburghMaster of Science (MSc) Computing Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computing Science at Imperial College London
English, Chinese, French, Russian
Github Skills (9)
observability10
go10
prometheus10
devops10
high-availability10
testing10
cnc9
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
thanos-io/thanos
Nov 2019 - Aug 2021
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:62 reviews, 8 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ian's contributions center around enhancing the Thanos project's capabilities, primarily focusing on improvements related to tracing and the integration of Katacoda tutorials. They implemented tracing for exemplar APIs to enhance observability. Additionally, the user introduced and refined Katacoda tutorials for Thanos Receive, streamlining the learning experience. Furthermore, they added integration tests for edge cases.
promqlobservabilityprometheusstoragegoogle-cloud-storage
bill3tt/notes
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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