Rory Crispin
Principal Software Engineer at ClickHouse
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRory Crispin is a Principal Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building observability and reliability platforms at scale. Currently leading observability efforts at ClickHouse, he progressed internally from SRE to senior and now principal engineering roles, reflecting deep domain expertise in large-scale telemetry and database performance. His background spans Kubernetes, Kafka, CockroachDB migrations, Istio, and multi-cloud infrastructure from roles at Thought Machine and StarLeaf, where he also optimized CI and async data pipelines. Rory combines hands-on systems development with pragmatic operational thinking—early work includes a concurrency-focused proxy and a cross-platform camera control startup built on Arduino. He also has a teaching streak, having tutored Python and electronics, and a hands-on engineering past maintaining a university rowing fleet, hinting at practical problem-solving beyond code.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of NottinghamDr Challoner's Grammar School
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (109)
dashboard10
grafana-plugin10
opentelemetry-collector10
olap10
opentelemetry10
database-management10
elasticsearch10
embedded10
cpp10
cloud-native10
monitoring10
big-data10
sql10
ai10
golang10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
RoryCrispin/rorycrispin.github.io
Sep 2018 - May 2026
Contributions:20 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 8 months
RoryCrispin/Connect4RESTful
May 2017 - May 2025
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 1 month
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