Toby Cole
Engineering Manager at Yelp
UK, United States
Summary
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RockstarToby Cole is an Engineering Manager and Database Reliability Technical Lead with 15 years of experience building and operating resilient production systems. Based in the UK, he blends hands-on DevOps work with leadership, recently contributing to Yelp’s open-source PaaSTA platform by improving deployment pipelines and resolving inconsistencies across service manifests. He specializes in database reliability and deployment automation, ensuring services stay performant and deployable at scale. Known for translating messy operational pain points into repeatable platform features, he brings a pragmatic, systems-first approach to team coaching and platform design.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
kubernetes10
docker10
paas10
dockers10
deployment-automation10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
infrastructure9
python8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Yelp/paasta
Jul 2016 - Oct 2016
An open, distributed platform as a service
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 12 commits, 7 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Toby primarily focused on improving the PaaSTA platform by addressing deployment pipeline configurations. They modified the check command to support "command-" steps and also addressed deployment inconsistencies between deploy.yaml and marathon/chronos yamls. Additionally, the user merged changes that bumped the project version.
mesosdockerplatform-as-a-servicedistributed-systemsmicroservices
Yelp/puppet-zookeeper
Aug 2019 - Mar 2025
Puppet module for managing Apache ZooKeeper
Contributions:2 reviews, 8 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 years 8 months
zookeeperpuppetpuppet-moduleapache-zookeeperapache
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