Summary
Jeffrey Silverman is a Director of Site Reliability Engineering with 11 years of experience building and operating high-availability web and streaming platforms from large-scale LAMP deployments to modern cloud-native video services. Based in Baltimore, he progressed from hands-on systems administration and web development at Johns Hopkins and Moodlerooms to senior SRE roles where he tuned, automated, and scaled a massive social video platform. He combines deep operational expertise—5-nines uptime, clustering, virtualization, monitoring—and a pragmatic engineering leadership style that mentors teams and drives consistent DevOps practices. Known for bridging developer and ops concerns, he has repeatedly led boutique teams to implement platform vision and reliable production systems. A biologist by undergraduate training, he brings a methodical, data-driven approach to debugging complex distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
UMBC