About

Jay Farrimond is a seasoned DevOps leader with almost two decades of experience in the industry. He is currently serving as a Site Reliability Engineer at Google, where he is responsible for ensuring the reliability and availability of Google's services. Jay has a proven track record of establishing and running new DevOps organizations and has held full ownership of all DevOps for multiple startups. Jay's prior experience includes working as a Production Engineer at Facebook and as the Manager of DevOps at Prenav, a funded startup that builds products used to inspect infrastructure using drone-based photography and machine learning and AI techniques. During his tenure at Prenav, Jay was responsible for owning all DevOps responsibilities, establishing practices, and building out a team. He built Kubernetes and Ceph clusters on bare metal servers, rebuilt a robust Jenkins CI/CD system from scratch, implemented monitoring/alerting/dashboarding systems, and designed a Ceph distributed file system with ~200TB of raw storage and ~65TB of usable storage supported by 15 bare metal servers. Jay began his career as a software developer primarily working in C and Windows environments. He earned his BS in Computer Science from Duke University and his MBA from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Jay's technical skills include SRE, DevOps, infra, AI, ML, Software Engineer, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Redis, and Jenkins. He has consistently been able to create fully reproducible infrastructure that is deployed at will, featuring horizontal scaling, effective monitoring, and backed with high-performance data systems. Jay is a hands-on leader who is passionate about building and leading teams and delivering high-quality products.