Tristan Colgate
Infrastructure Engineer at Cerbos
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTristan Colgate is an Infrastructure Engineer with 17 years of experience building and operating resilient cloud-native systems across startups and large tech firms in the UK. He’s delivered production infrastructure and SRE practices at companies including Cerbos, Coveo, Cloudflare and blinkbox, blending deep operational know-how with platform-building experience. Tristan contributes to open-source tooling around code review systems—enhancing git-appraise’s comment validation and error messaging—showing attention to developer experience as well as reliability. His background spans networking, systems architecture and web operations, enabling him to bridge low-level infrastructure concerns with developer workflows. Known for centralizing checks and improving tooling robustness, he brings pragmatic automation and observability to complex distributed environments. Trained in computer science at King’s College London, he combines academic foundations with long-running hands-on delivery across the full infrastructure stack.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
computer science, computer science at King's College London, U. of London
Github Skills (5)
go10
code-review10
package-repository9
error-handling9
git-repository9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
google/git-appraise
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Distributed code review system for Git repos
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Tristan primarily focused on improving the code review functionality of the Git appraise system. Their contributions include fixing line indexing issues in the comment feature and implementing more robust checks for comment locations, including the validation of line and column numbers. They also added enhancements for error messaging, creating more descriptive and helpful feedback to the user. Finally, the user centralized repository location checking.
tcolgate/hugot
Jun 2016 - Apr 2020
An idiomatic Go chat bot package
Contributions:175 commits, 1 PR, 162 pushes in 3 years 11 months
chatbotgo
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