Summary
Rob Garth is a Senior SRE Manager based in Sydney with 11 years of hands-on experience building and leading remote platform and reliability teams across companies from startups to large tech firms. He has progressed from systems and Unix administration into cloud-native platform engineering and SRE leadership roles at organizations including Google, Square, Ping Identity, Aiven and now Aerospike, blending deep operational expertise with people management. Rob’s background includes building infrastructure in Go and operating large-scale services, and he has a track record of scaling teams and reliability practices across diverse environments. Notably, he pairs traditional systems craftsmanship from his early Solaris/Linux years with modern cloud-native SRE approaches, making him adept at bridging legacy operations and cutting‑edge platforms.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B Sc Computing, B Sc Computing at Western Sydney University