Summary
Devin Sylva is a senior site reliability engineer who turns sprawling distributed systems into reliable, high-performance platforms. With a decade of experience spanning data center operations, private clouds, and SaaS, he currently leads SRE at GitLab, supporting about 4 million active users and 12 million active projects. He combines hands-on engineering with leadership, overseeing on-call rotations, incident response, and cross-functional work to move the platform toward cloud-native architectures. His technical focus spans Kubernetes and Docker, infrastructure-as-code with Ansible, Puppet, and Terraform, and multi-cloud operations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Based in Haiku, Hawaii, he has a proven track record of remotely leading globally distributed teams and aligning reliability with business goals.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
English, Danish