Scott French
Site Reliability Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolScott French is a Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating large-scale, resilient systems from foundational HPC environments to cloud-native serverless platforms. He has driven reliability and traffic management at Google—spanning Global Networking and Cloud Serverless—and now applies that expertise to critical infrastructure at the Wikimedia Foundation. His background as a PhD seismologist and HPC consultant gives him a rare combination of deep numerical modeling, performance optimization, and systems engineering skills that inform both tooling and incident response. Comfortable across low-level performance tuning and high-level traffic routing, he excels at translating complex research-grade workloads into reliable production services. Based in Berkeley, he brings academic rigor to practical SRE challenges and a history of transitioning scientific applications to modern architectures.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Earth and Planetary Science (Seismology), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Earth and Planetary Science (Seismology) at University of California, BerkeleySc.B. Geophysics, Sc.B. Geophysics at Brown University
Github Skills (18)
xlib10
xorg10
tiling9
xcb9
x119
window-manager9
yang9
napalm8
linux8
infiniband7
cluster-computing6
high-performance5
abstraction5
matrix5
monitoring5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
swfrench/convergent-matrix
Nov 2013 - Jun 2020
Contributions:165 commits, 1 PR, 30 pushes in 6 years 8 months
distributedmatrixabstractiondense
swfrench/nginx-log-exporter
Oct 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:25 commits, 25 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 2 months
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