Keith Collister
Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Tech Lead at Google
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKeith Collister is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer and tech lead based in London with 11 years of engineering experience, currently leading SRE efforts at Google. His work has focused on the Cloud Pub/Sub product and its internal equivalents, combining deep distributed systems expertise with production-first reliability practices. A Cambridge Computer Science graduate with early research experience in systems, he is particularly interested in distributed systems and compilers—bringing a researcher’s curiosity to operational challenges. Known for progressing rapidly through SRE leadership roles at Google, he balances hands-on incident work with coaching and architectural ownership. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex system behavior into pragmatic, scalable solutions that reduce operational toil.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science at University of CambridgeA-Levels, A-Levels at Burford School and Community College
English
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Github Skills (74)
vscode-extension10
vscode10
application-launcher9
adblock9
java-bytecode9
dmenu9
privacy9
keybindings9
dns-over-https9
linux8
golang8
operating-system8
vim8
dns8
home-assistant8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hnefatl/appdaemon
Jun 2021 - Jul 2026
Contributions:98 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
hnefatl/nixpkgs
Jul 2019 - Jun 2026
Nix Packages collection
Contributions:16 pushes in 6 years 11 months
nixosnix-packages
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