Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolRob Cardy is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with a decade of experience building and operating large-scale production systems at Shopify, currently focused on ClickHouse platforms that power observability and merchant analytics. He has driven resilient, high-throughput async job processing and Kafka reliability work, operating systems that handle billions of jobs daily with five-nines reliability. Comfortable across Ruby, Go, Kubernetes, Envoy, Redis and observability stacks, Rob blends SRE principles with pragmatic engineering to automate and scale critical infrastructure. His background includes embedded systems work and developer-focused tooling at Ciena, and an unexpected dual training in contemporary music that informs his one-on-one mentorship style.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Contemporary Music, Bachelor's Degree Contemporary Music at Humber College
Bachelor of Computing (Honours) Computer Science, Bachelor of Computing (Honours) Computer Science at Queen's University
English