Summary
Michael Malahy is a Site Reliability Engineer with eight years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure in higher education and identity security environments. He progressed from instructional roles and academic research in botany to DevOps and senior cloud systems work at the University of Oklahoma, now applying that analytical, research-driven mindset to reliability at Ping Identity. Comfortable bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders, he combines curriculum development and public speaking skills with hands-on SRE practices like observability, automation, and incident response. His background in scientific methodology and data visualization gives him a distinctive approach to troubleshooting and capacity planning, turning complex system metrics into actionable operational decisions. Located in Oklahoma City, he brings a rare mix of education-sector empathy and production-grade cloud engineering.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Botany/Plant Biology, Master of Science - MS, Botany/Plant Biology at Oklahoma State University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General at University of Central Oklahoma