Spike Lindsey
Principal at Downdog
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSpike Lindsey is a Principal engineering leader with 11 years building resilient infrastructure and production systems across fintech and e-commerce, most recently leading strategy at Downdog after senior reliability roles at Wealthsimple and Shopify. He specializes in production and reliability engineering, evolving teams and platforms to run high-scale services reliably while blending hands-on incident work with long-term architectural improvements. Spike's background in audio engineering and coaching at Makers Academy gives him a practiced ear for systems feedback and a knack for clear technical mentorship. Based in Old Toronto, he combines startup agility with enterprise-grade discipline and a penchant for shipping pragmatic, observable systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA Recording Arts, 2:1, BA Recording Arts, 2:1 at SAE London
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (110)
beans10
instagram10
ruby10
rake10
javascript10
twitter10
rebuild10
inject10
fmi10
rewrite10
css10
jmx-exporter10
consumption10
monkey10
jmx10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
spike01/bowlingJS
Nov 2014 - Nov 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
sdorunga/slack-notifier
Dec 2015 - May 2021
Contributions:3 PRs, 5 issues in 5 years 5 months
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