shuff - cto (Chief Technology Officer), sre (Site Reliability Engineer), pe (Production Engineer), swe (Software Engineer)
shuff - cto (Chief Technology Officer), sre (Site Reliability Engineer), pe (Production Engineer), swe (Software Engineer)
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A hands-on engineering leader and seasoned software reliability expert with a track record of building and scaling some of the largest CDN, networking, and distributed systems infrastructures in the world. Experienced in architecting secure, performant, and resilient platforms at global scale. Deep technical fluency across the stack—ranging from low-level Linux and TCP/IP internals to modern web frameworks to CI/CD and data pipelines. Proven success as a CTO, Eng. Mgr, Director, SRE, and SWE driving engineering excellence, team velocity, and product reliability shipping world-class software.
As Netflix moves into the live streaming space it changes our surface area for security and reliability from external actors I'm currently leading the rearchitecture of our CDN security detection and mitigation platform.
I joined Coinbase as the most senior SRE IC in the company to double down on reliability and scalability and build out their SRE organization. I worked across the infrastructure and product teams to deliver new reliability primatives in the paved paths: Baseline Canaries, Auto Deployment rollbacks, Circuit Breaking, etc. I also rewrote the internal service registry (Golang, React) to achieve 100% coverage of service ownership and map to accountable pagerduty rotation.
Jarobe Labs is a startup focused on developing innovative solutions in the tech space.
Led the technical vision and engineering teams for eFuse.gg and esports.gg, platforms focused on the gaming and esports industry.
Focused on ensuring the reliability and performance of Netflix's content delivery infrastructure worldwide.
The Net Systems team is responsible for much of the centralized software control plane powering virtually all of facebook's backbone/routing network infrastructure.
The traffic team is responsible for our global load balancing infrastructure which involves load balancing through DNS, and layer 3 (IP), 4(TCP), and 7 (HTTP, SPDY) in the networking stack.
The Site Reliability team was responsible for making sure facebook was online and reliable.
I worked on the Linux team to ensure the build, delivery, and operation of all virtual, physical and mainframe Linux servers throughout Nationwide's environment. We managed the underlying OS across a variety of workloads: Application Servers, Frontend, Database, etc. I spent a lot of my time automating away the manual sys admin work we were doing with python.
Activites & Societies: Open Source Club
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Patrick Shuff
Email: patrick@shuff.me
Location: Ohio, USA