Summary
Michael Gray is a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer with over 25 years of experience building and operating large-scale, heterogeneous engineering infrastructures and CI/CD platforms, currently supporting IBM Cloud Tools as a Service for 1000+ internal teams. He blends formal CS training (BS/MS, University of New Hampshire) with deep hands-on expertise in SRE, Linux/Unix internals, virtualization, monitoring (Zabbix, ELK, Kafka), and automation (Jenkins, Ansible, Urbancode). Michael has repeatedly led migrations and integrations—from on-prem virtualization to hybrid cloud and OpenStack to IBM Cloud—while designing resilient monitoring and logging systems that support four-nines availability. Known for pragmatic toolchain integrations (static analysis, container signing, vulnerability scanning) and custom operational tooling, he thrives at the intersection of developer productivity and production reliability. A longtime IBM technologist, he brings a history of mentoring, cross-team liaison work, and a knack for turning complex operational needs into maintainable automation.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of New Hampshire