Madison Bentley
Site Reliability Engineer at Clay
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMadison Bentley is a Site Reliability Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure, currently focused on reliability at Clay in Boston. After a long tenure at Yelp—progressing from operations intern to SRE Tech Lead—she has deep expertise in platform automation, deployment tooling, and resource optimization. She has contributed to notable open-source work on Yelp’s PaaSTA project, adding CPU-aware scheduling parameters and improving platform docs and tests to keep deployments consistent and maintainable. Madison combines hands-on backend and DevOps skills with leadership experience running SRE teams and improving operational quality at scale. Early experience in community networking and embedded systems shows a practical curiosity for distributed systems and low-level engineering. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic problem-solver who balances technical rigor with clear documentation and testing discipline.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Case Western Reserve UniversitySeattle Preparatory School
Github Skills (12)
python10
marathon10
dockers9
kubernetes-pods9
infrastructure-as-code9
docker9
kubernetes9
mesos9
system-administration8
autoscaling8
documentation8
cicd8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Yelp/paasta
May 2016 - Mar 2021
An open, distributed platform as a service
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:24 reviews, 344 commits, 118 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Madison primarily contributed to improving the PaaSTA platform's documentation and addressing related warnings, enhancing code consistency. They also introduced CPU-related parameters within the marathon logic and test suite, demonstrating a focus on resource management and optimization. Furthermore, they made modifications to support Chronos and Marathon features, suggesting involvement in infrastructure as code and deployment tooling. The user also updated test suites to reflect changes, emphasizing the importance of maintaining quality.
mesosdockerplatform-as-a-servicedistributed-systemsmicroservices
mtbentley/duplicity_b2
Nov 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:23 commits, 4 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 11 months
file-storagebackblazeduplicitybackenddatabase
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