Phil Sharfstein
Principal SRE at Atlassian
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Sharfstein is a Principal SRE with 11+ years of experience building scalable, resilient infrastructure and high-performing teams across startups and large enterprises in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has led major cloud and DevOps transformations—rearchitecting single-tenant AWS fleets to Kubernetes, automating CI/CD, and driving SOC 2 and ISO security programs—at companies including Looker/Google, Firstbase, and Atlassian. A Red Hat Certified Engineer with GIAC GSEC credentials, Phil blends deep systems expertise (Linux kernel work, SLURM, Lustre, monitoring stacks) with cloud architecture across AWS, Azure and GCP. He also brings domain experience in processing and decoding oceanographic and atmospheric data from his academic and government work, and a history of squeezing dramatic performance gains from legacy scientific systems. Known for turning fragile operations into auditable, automated platforms, he pairs hands-on engineering with clear security and compliance leadership.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Unfinished Graduate Studies Geology/Marine Geophysics, Unfinished Graduate Studies Geology/Marine Geophysics at UC Santa BarbaraUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (24)
python10
ansible9
ssh9
ifttt9
looker8
automation8
drift8
amazon-web-services8
devops8
infrastructure-as-code7
terraform-module6
slash-commands6
aws6
terraform6
network-configuration6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
looker/discourse-whitelist-iframe
Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:3 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
secoda/secoda-helm-generic
Oct 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:12 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
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