Michael Bongardino
Sr SRE at Betterment
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Bongardino is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in New York with a decade of experience building and operating resilient infrastructure at Betterment, where he progressed from Tech Ops Manager to Sr SRE. He blends hands-on systems administration and post-production engineering roots with modern SRE practices, giving him a practical knack for performance, backup/archival strategies, and operational scalability. Comfortable leading both day-to-day ops and strategic reliability projects, he has a history managing Apple-centric environments and complex storage systems in media and startup settings. His communication strengths—honed as a Business Genius at Apple—help him translate technical tradeoffs to nontechnical stakeholders and drive cross-team initiatives. Known internally as a “Tech Whisperer,” he combines a liberal-arts background in English with technical rigor to write clear runbooks and incident narratives. Colleagues rely on him for steady leadership during production incidents and for making infrastructure decisions that balance speed, cost, and long-term operability.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, English Language and Literature/Letters, Bachelor's Degree, English Language and Literature/Letters at Hofstra University
Github Skills (49)
githubactions7
golang7
terraform7
aws7
atlantis7
sre7
google-cloud6
devops6
gcp6
cdr6
aws-services6
cli5
ansible-role5
hardening5
automation5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bongardino/dotfiles
Jan 2019 - Feb 2025
clever things I borrowed from clever people
Contributions:2 PRs, 46 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 2 months
kotlinjavaandroid
bongardino/spider-tracer
Oct 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 7 pushes in 7 months
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