Richard Gibert
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Sentry
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRichard Gibert is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale data and platform systems, currently at Sentry in Toronto. He has driven enterprise Hadoop and CDP builds and migrations at RBC, led platform design for big data workloads, and modernized monitoring by replacing Sensu with containerized Prometheus deployments. At Sentry he contributes to back-end SRE work and to the widely used open-source Sentry project, focusing on Django CLI tooling and RabbitMQ-based queue reliability. Known for pairing hands-on automation (Ansible, CI/CD, containerization) with architecture-level decisions, he excels at turning complex operational requirements into repeatable, secure platforms. Collected experience across middleware, Hadoop, and cloud disaster recovery gives him a pragmatic grasp of both legacy and cloud-native ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BCmp Computing and Information Science, BCmp Computing and Information Science at Queen's University
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Github Skills (9)
configuration-management10
sentry10
cli-tools10
python10
django10
rabbitmq9
devops8
error-log7
error-logging7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 5 commits, 13 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Sentry platform, focusing on the `createuser` command and the RabbitMQ message queue system. They added features to support multiple user creation with organization assignment and implemented fixes for user creation logic. Additionally, they addressed configuration changes for queue definitions within the application. The user demonstrates a strong grasp of the Django framework, CLI tools, and system configuration.
monitorpythonsentrydjangoerror-monitoring
rgibert/ansible-role-single-binary-service
Nov 2019 - Jun 2021
Generic role for setting up a single binary as a systemd service .
Contributions:10 releases, 22 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year 7 months
settingansiblegenericgalaxysingle-binary
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