About

Andrew Ford is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Indeed.com, the highest traffic job website in the United States. He holds a Bachelor of Sciences in Computer Science degree from the University of Texas at Austin and has over 24 years of relevant experience as a SRE/DBRE, DBA, Software Engineer, and Systems Architect. Andrew's expertise lies in helping dev teams define and meet SLOs, obtain operational excellence, and set up proper alerting based on Error Budget spend rates. He has recently focused on guiding teams to migrate to AWS managed services like RDS and Aurora to improve reliability and development velocity. Andrew is also an IBM Certified Solution Expert in IDS versions 7 and 9, and an IBM Certified System Administrator in IDS versions 10 and 11. With his SRE, AWS, and Terraform experience, he is a sextuple threat. Andrew has presented at various conferences, including the IBM Information On Demand Conference and the IIUG Informix Conference, on topics such as Informix Tips and Tricks, Data Management Innovations for a Smarter Planet, and Resolving In Place Alters on Large Tables with Minimum Impact. Before joining Indeed, Andrew was part of the Conference Planning Committee at the International Informix Users Group and served on the Board of Directors at IIUG, where he installed and administered Informix Database Engines. Andrew's tech stack includes SRE, AWS, Software Engineer, Terraform, Python, Web, and Senior Software Engineer. He is passionate about his work at Indeed and has no interest in job openings.