Ray Slakinski
Senior Engineering Manager, SRE at ecobee
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRay Slakinski is a seasoned engineering leader with 16 years of experience building and scaling highly reliable platforms, from early startups to services serving 80M+ monthly visitors. Currently Senior Engineering Manager for SRE at ecobee, he focuses on keeping millions of connected devices running securely and comfortably around the clock while leading Kubernetes migrations across hybrid on‑prem and cloud environments. Ray blends hands‑on architecture and incident work with team development, clear cross‑team direction, and practical approaches to technical debt. His background includes founding‑stage engineering and infrastructure work—scaling Mahalo to 17M uniques and building real‑time feeds and Cassandra-backed stores for high throughput systems. He’s equally comfortable prototyping new products and institutionalizing bulletproof operations, and is known for moving teams off brittle tooling toward repeatable, automated delivery. Based in Oakville, Ontario, he pairs deep operational instincts with a bias for learning fast and shipping durable solutions.
17 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Sheridan College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (46)
ruby10
homebrew10
paypal9
3ds8
nintendo-3ds8
google-checkout7
django7
design-patterns6
amazon-ec26
openssl6
password-manager6
amazon-s36
open-source6
linux6
python6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rays/OSync
Aug 2009 - Jun 2017
Contributions:32 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 10 months
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rays/gladbot
Apr 2020 - Mar 2024
Contributions:6 PRs, 56 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 11 months
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