Summary
Ted Behling is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 15 years of experience building and operating large-scale, highly available platforms across companies like Calendly, HashiCorp, GitHub, and Google. He combines deep systems engineering—databases, networking, and cloud automation—with hands-on incident leadership, having led 20+ critical incident investigations and driven measurable improvements such as a 60% reduction in load on AWS Aurora for Terraform Cloud. Ted’s background spans full-stack product work and infrastructure automation, including designing geo-distributed deployments for GitHub Enterprise Server and integrating HashiCorp tooling like Consul and Vault. He has a track record of cross-team refactors and operationalizing reliability at scale, and brings experience from both government digital service work and private-sector cloud architecture. Pragmatic and collaborative, he focuses on high-impact outcomes while mentoring peers and sharing technical knowledge across engineering teams.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer