Summary
Mac Chapman is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 16 years of experience building resilient infrastructure and developer-friendly platforms across startups and small companies. Currently leading infrastructure for precision health at Genomics, he scales maintainable cloud architectures and has moved from being the first SRE hire to infrastructure lead and team builder. An AWS Certified Solutions Architect and pragmatic generalist, he blends backend development, DevOps, and SRE practices to reduce toil and accelerate delivery. Mac excels at turning ambiguous problems into two-week actionable plans mapped to long-term vision, and he’s comfortable presenting technical ideas publicly (including PyCon UK). He has deep experience automating CI/CD, testing and multi-environment configuration, and a track record of reorganising teams and processes to support growth after IPOs. Based in West Oxfordshire, he pairs hands-on technical craft with hiring, cross-functional collaboration and occasional event planning.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Computer Science, MEng Computer Science at University of Southampton