Scott Ritchie
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Google
California, United States
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Top SchoolScott Ritchie is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience securing and scaling production systems, currently managing critical ads infrastructure at Google. A former Ubuntu developer and Wine package maintainer, he blends deep open-source roots with incident command expertise, SRE best practices, and a track record of writing about engineering and community. He excels at incident management, infrastructure hardening, and improving machine efficiency, and has contributed to Google's SRE literature. Notably, his background ranges from teaching and analytics to running popular "hacker hostels" in Silicon Valley, reflecting a knack for community-building and clear communication under pressure.
21 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's, Economics, Bachelor's, Economics at University of California, Davis
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (37)
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mongodb8
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
YokoZar/lp-election-helper
Feb 2014 - Jan 2020
A script for getting a list of voters to feed into CIVS for running elections from Launchpad groups
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 6 years
groupspythonelectionsvoterscivs
YokoZar/ppa-stats
Jan 2014 - Jan 2020
A command-line tool for querying a Launchpad PPA and getting download stats
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 6 years 1 month
command-line-toolcliqueryinglaunchpad-ppappa
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