Head of AI Labs & DevRel at Rootly. I build open-source tools, evaluate AI agents, and write about what AI changes for reliability engineering.
Former Senior SRE at LinkedIn, where I co-designed a patented self-healing infrastructure. Co-founded Holberton School, training thousands of software engineers across 25+ countries. Founded while42, a developer community of 3,000+ engineers across 40 cities.
At Rootly AI Labs, we build prototypes, open-source tools, and research for reliability engineering, with support from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Google Cloud.
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SRE-skills-bench Benchmark suite for evaluating AI agents on real-world SRE tasks |
On-Call Health Helps teams identify signs of overwork in incident responders |
Rootly MCP Server MCP server for AI-driven incident management workflows |
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Doom Agent Arena Real-time model-vs-model evaluations in Doom, powered by MCP |
Rootly Graphify Importer Turns incidents, alerts, and teams into a queryable knowledge graph |
Rootly for Claude Code Incident response, on-call context, and deploy checks in Claude Code |
| Article | Publication |
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| Can Claude fix itself? From no to maybe | My blog · Sep 2026 |
| AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems | My blog · Sep 2026 |
| AI Writes the Code, But Humans Can't Review It All. Now What? | My blog · Jul 2026 |
| LLMs broke the SRE runbook — now what? | The New Stack |
| Will LLMs and Vibe Coding Fuel a Developer Renaissance? | The New Stack |
All writing, talks, and podcasts → · Blog · RSS
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