Summary
Kyle Schaffrick is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 15 years of experience building and operating large-scale, distributed systems and automation at Google and beyond. He specializes in reliability, capacity management, and software/configuration distribution, with hands-on expertise spanning C++, Python, TypeScript, and Linux system administration. His background includes developing real-time geospatial weather systems, embedding optimization and forecasting into infrastructure pipelines, and executing zero-downtime infrastructure swaps for advertising backends. A polyglot programmer (proficient in eight languages and familiar with a dozen more), Kyle blends deep systems thinking with applied mathematics, modeling, and visualization to turn complex operational problems into measurable, automated solutions. Outside core SRE work he tinkers as an electronics technician and CNC machinist and brings a maker’s eye to tooling and instrumentation.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering Computer Science, Electrical Engineering Computer Science at University of Kentucky