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 (104)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hnefatl/dissertation-project
Oct 2018 - May 2019
An Optimising Compiler from Haskell to Java Bytecode: 3rd year dissertation project.
Contributions:2 releases, 452 commits, 1 PR in 7 months
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AudibleAppliances/AudibleAppliances
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:360 pushes, 10 branches in 1 month
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