Paul Rafferty
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Scopely
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Rafferty is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Dublin with 11 years of experience building resilient, scalable cloud platforms and infrastructure. He specializes in Terraform, AWS and Kubernetes and has a proven track record designing end-to-end platforms—from organization-level AWS setup and multi-region EKS deployments to observability stacks (Mimir, Loki, Grafana) and GitOps with FluxCD. Paul thrives in both startup and enterprise contexts, having been a founding systems engineer at Calypso AI and helped introduce DevOps practices at Qualtrics, while also operating production SRE at Salesforce and Scopely. He prefers pragmatic, sometimes “boring” technology choices and emphasizes maintainable, DRY infrastructure that he can run single-handedly and stress-free. Notably, he built custom GitLab runners for self-hosted AI workloads and prides himself on practical details like sensible naming that keep large systems manageable.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Physics, Applied Physics at DCU
Github Skills (200)
terraform10
terraform-module10
monitoring10
hashicorp10
json10
graph10
storage10
packaging10
aws10
infrastructure-as-code10
modbus10
terraform-cloud9
secrets9
vault9
golang9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
raffraffraff/hiera_aws_ssm_parameter_store
Jul 2023 - Feb 2025
Hiera 5 go plugin for looking up values in AWS SSM Parameter Store
Contributions:20 PRs, 25 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 7 months
raffraffraff/oci-k3s
Jun 2022 - Dec 2024
Quickly deploy k3s onto 4 'free forever' ARM VMs on Oracle Cloud
Contributions:2 PRs, 46 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 6 months
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