Rory De Zoete
Lead Site Reliability Engineer at Neon @neondatabase
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolRory De Zoete is a Lead Site Reliability Engineer based in Munich with eight years of experience building and scaling cloud-native infrastructure for high-growth startups, including Personio and Neon. He specializes in multi-cloud operations, infrastructure security, and driving cross-functional initiatives that turn reliability goals into measurable engineering outcomes. Rory has a track record of leading SRE teams through rapid scaling phases and operationalizing security and observability at the platform level. Earlier roles as a security consultant and co-founder give him a pragmatic blend of offensive security mindset and product-oriented thinking. Known for helping create one "unicorn" and already contributing to another, he brings startup grit combined with disciplined, repeatable operational practices.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
IT Service Management, IT Service Management at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English, German
Github Skills (24)
autoscaling10
postgresql10
storage10
neon10
serverless10
rust10
database10
gatsby9
runner6
cli5
serialization5
rocket5
continuous-testing5
patch4
git-repository4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
supercrunch-sre/ansible-role-ldap-client
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
ansibleendpointsldapansible-roleauthenticate
neondatabase/neon
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, code-like database branching, and scale to zero.
Contributions:73 reviews, 17 commits, 61 PRs in 3 months
neonrustserverlessautoscalingoffer
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