Ian Delahorne
Site Reliability Engineer at Clay
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolIan Delahorne is a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer with 14+ years building resilient, scalable web platforms across cloud and bare-metal environments, currently focused on SRE at Clay after leading resiliency efforts at Shopify and Patreon. He blends hands‑on systems work (Go, Kubernetes, ArgoCD/Spinnaker, MySQL/Postgres) with platform leadership—running replatforms to Kubernetes with zero downtime, designing operators for canaries, and improving observability via OpenTelemetry and Datadog. His background ranges from low‑level network and embedded system work to large‑scale cloud migrations, giving him a rare end‑to‑end perspective on how networks, infrastructure and developer workflows interact. An active contributor to infrastructure tooling (notably fixes to HashiCorp Packer’s OpenStack builder), he favors practical automation and toil reduction that measurably improves reliability and deploy speed.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Studies towards MSc (uncompleted) Computer Science, Studies towards MSc (uncompleted) Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Western Governors University
English, Swedish, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
debug10
cloud-infrastructure10
go10
openstack10
builder-pattern10
api-design9
networking9
devops8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/packer
Jun 2014 - Jun 2014
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributed to the OpenStack builder within the Packer project, addressing issues related to IPv4 address handling and network configuration. They implemented features to allow network configuration in OpenStack deployments and fixed a critical bug related to server lookups in the gophercloud library. Furthermore, they resolved a typo and updated the code to utilize an improved server lookup mechanism.
vagrantplatformslinuxpackerdocker
Patreon/euphrates
Jul 2018 - May 2019
The great data river from mysql to redshift 💦🌊
Contributions:19 commits, 11 PRs, 31 pushes in 10 months
deltaredisdataframesmysqlriver
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