Bethany Erskine

DevOps Engineer

Fair Haven, New Jersey, United States27 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 20 years of experience in software engineering.
Expertise in Site Reliability and Observability.
Managed log ingestion pipeline with 800TiB/day throughput.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Infrastructure Engineer with a strong focus on Site Reliability and Observability.

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Skills

Core Skills

ObservabilitySite Reliability EngineeringSystems Engineering

Other Skills

TelemetryLog ingestionServer architectureInfrastructureMetricsMonitoringDatabasesSecurityLinuxInformation SecurityVirtualization

About

Over 20 years of experience in software engineering, systems administration, distributed systems and web operations. I specialize in and am passionate about Site Reliability and Observability.

Experience

27 yrs

Total Experience

3 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

8 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Github

3 roles

Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Compute Platform

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Senior Software Engineer - Observability

Promoted

Jul 2019 – Jan 2025 · 5 yrs 6 mos

Working with all aspects of observability telemetry (metrics, exceptions, logs and traces) at GitHub, most notably managing the log ingestion pipeline with a daily throughput of 800TiB/day.

ObservabilityTelemetryLog ingestion

Site Reliability Engineer

Oct 2017 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

Site Reliability Engineer focusing on Observability at GitHub.

Site Reliability EngineeringObservability

Paperless post

Staff Systems Engineer / Technical Operations Manager

Jan 2011 – Jan 2017 · 6 yrs · New York, New York

Any and all things that support the operation, growth and performance of Paperlesspost.com: deploys, server architecture and infrastructure, site performance, metrics, monitoring, databases, internal tools and security. A few of my favorite technologies used at Paperless: Rails, Ruby, Go, Redis, Logstash, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Chef, Vsphere, Ec2, Vagrant, Sensu, Graphite.

Server architectureInfrastructureMetricsMonitoringDatabasesSecurity+1

International masters publishers

Manager of Web Operations

Feb 2009 – Oct 2009 · 8 mos

Responsible for management, security and documentation of all supporting computer infrastructure for the relaunch of CookingVillage.com and Hoorray.com e-commerce sites.

Ipsoft, inc.

Continual Service Improvement Engineer

Jan 2009 – Aug 2011 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Sourcemedia

Development Manager

Aug 2007 – Jan 2009 · 1 yr 5 mos

Responsible for development and maintenance of SourceMedia’s custom web content management platform (based on Spring MVC 2.5, Hibernate 3.2, Compass 2.0, Lucene 2.2, JSP 2.0, Tomcat 6, MySQL 5, SuSE SLES 9 Linux and VMware ESX)

Georgia institute of technology - office of information technology

2 roles

Information Security Engineer

Oct 2005 – Aug 2007 · 1 yr 10 mos

Managed operational projects, server infrastructure and services, monitored network traffic for anomalies, worked with units to mitigate vulnerabilities and risks, and assisted with forensic investigations by providing network-based evidence and host-based forensic analysis