Tobias Weingartner is a Site Reliability Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with two decades of systems engineering experience and over a decade focused on production SRE roles at major tech companies like Google, DoorDash, and Twitter. He excels at tackling large-scale, squirrelly problems—particularly low-level and hardware-adjacent debugging—and has a rare ability to pick up almost any programming language as needed. His background includes long-term open-source work (notably with the OpenBSD project) and deep Unix systems expertise from roles at universities and research organizations. Tobias blends reverse engineering skills with practical release and infrastructure engineering, making him equally comfortable tracing firmware issues or stabilizing distributed services. He prefers challenging environments and is based in San Francisco, bringing institutional memory from both academic and hyperscale engineering contexts. An unfinished PhD and decades of hands-on admin and release work signal a curious engineer who pursues depth as well as operational excellence.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
PhD (incomplete), PhD (incomplete) at University of Alberta
Contributions:9 commits, 4 pushes in 4 years 1 month
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Tobias Weingartner - Site Reliability Engineer at Google