Svend Sorensen
Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Ekata
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSvend Sorensen is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer based in Seattle with 22 years of experience building and running large-scale, highly available systems. He blends deep hands-on expertise in deployment automation, virtualization, and cloud-native operations—especially AWS and Kubernetes—with systems programming in Python, Go, and C. At Ekata he focuses on reliability at scale after leading SRE and systems efforts at Whitepages, where he supported massive identity-data platforms and high-traffic consumer services. His background includes designing Linux clusters for scientific workloads and leading clinical informatics infrastructure at the University of Washington, showing a long-standing ability to translate research and data-heavy needs into production systems. Active in open source, he has authored projects that reflect a pragmatic, tool-first approach to operational problems. Colleagues know him for combining pragmatic engineering with a deep institutional memory of systems dating back to early virtualization and cluster design.
21 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Civil Engineering at Washington State University
Github Skills (200)
scheduling10
hashicorp10
elisp10
nixpkgs10
prometheus10
terragrunt10
kubernetes-monitoring10
hcl10
time-series10
nix10
terraform10
prometheus-exporter10
multi-monitor10
melpa10
emacs-lsp10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
whitepages/terraform-provider-dummy
Sep 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:67 commits, 16 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year
whitepages/terraform-provider-stingray
Dec 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:182 commits, 62 PRs, 109 pushes in 10 months
providerinteractterraformterraform-providerstingray
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