Joy Scharmen
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorJoy Scharmen is a seasoned infrastructure leader with 11+ years driving reliability, SRE, and DevOps programs across startups and enterprise teams from Heroku and Optimizely to High Fidelity and strongDM. She builds cross-functional engineering cohorts and operational playbooks that balance tooling, process, and the human side of incident response to deliver resilient, scalable systems. Her career began in hands-on systems and network engineering and evolved into directing multi-team infrastructure efforts, giving her a rare blend of deep technical fluency and organizational design. Joy specializes in pragmatic solutions for complex, growing environments rather than one-size-fits-all approaches, and she embeds reliability into product teams rather than owning it in isolation. Based in San Leandro, CA, she brings a creative background and long history of lifting engineering capabilities that prioritize people as the key lever for dependable platforms.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (2)
retrospective1
docker1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
peculiaire/peculiaire.github.io
Aug 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
peculiaire/incident-lifecycle
Jul 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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