Michael Warkentin
Senior SRE at Sentry (sentry.io)
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMichael Warkentin is a Senior SRE with 15 years of experience building and operating web-scale services, currently focused on reliability at Sentry after a decade-plus senior operations role at Wave. He blends front-end roots (HTML/CSS, Mootools) and Django back-end expertise with deep DevOps skills, having contributed to production PaaS work (convox/rack) and feature-flipping tooling (django-waffle). Michael has a history of shipping product-facing UI and video services as an owner and contractor, giving him a user-centered perspective on infrastructure tradeoffs. He’s comfortable across the stack—optimizing performance, automating ops, and extending developer tooling—and brings entrepreneurial instincts from running small firms and product projects. Notably, his open-source contributions include operational fixes that improved release and instance management in a private AWS-native PaaS.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Toronto Metropolitan University
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Github Skills (26)
python10
django10
command-line-interface10
feature-flags10
go10
aws10
command-line10
paas10
cli10
dockers9
apidoc9
docker9
api9
django-models9
aws-ecs8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
jazzband/django-waffle
Jan 2012 - Jan 2015
A feature flipper for Django
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 13 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the management command functionalities within the Django-Waffle project. They added the ability to create flags, samples, and switches via the command line. Furthermore, they extended existing commands with options like --create and --list, enhancing the usability of the feature-flipper. The changes also included improvements to flag management with new options to control flag behavior.
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convox/rack
Feb 2016 - Jul 2019
Private PaaS built on native AWS services for maximum privacy and minimum upkeep
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:26 commits, 19 PRs, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael made contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Convox rack's backend functionality and improving its operational aspects. This includes implementing a password option for rack installation, fixing CPU output in the `ps` command, and switching the API call for instance termination to utilize autoscaling groups. They also addressed import issues and improved port matching logic within the release management system.
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