Rob Cardy

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Building reliable systems, automating everything in between.

About

I'm a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with over 6 years of experience specializing in large systems and complex scalability challenges. Currently at Shopify, I've architected platforms for ClickHouse database lifecycle management in Kubernetes and built infrastructure that processes over 20 billion asynchronous jobs daily. I thrive in collaborative environments where I can share knowledge with peers and devise elegant solutions to business problems.

Skills

Languages

  • Ruby (Rails)
  • Go
  • Bash
  • Python
  • Java
  • C

Infrastructure

  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • Helm
  • Envoy

Data & Messaging

  • ClickHouse
  • Kafka
  • Redis
  • ZooKeeper

Observability

  • StatsD (DataDog)
  • Splunk

Cloud & OS

  • GCP
  • Linux

Projects

Pi Cluster Load Balancer

A containerized Sinatra application behind an Nginx reverse proxy, deployed across a Raspberry Pi cluster to demonstrate container orchestration and round-robin load balancing.

Docker · Ruby/Sinatra · Nginx · Raspberry Pi

Infrastructure as Code Toolkit

Terraform modules and Ansible playbooks for provisioning and configuring cloud infrastructure with repeatable, version-controlled workflows.

Terraform · Ansible · AWS · GitHub Actions

Observability Stack

A self-hosted monitoring and alerting pipeline built with Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager for real-time visibility into system health.

Prometheus · Grafana · Docker Compose

Contact

GitHub LinkedIn Email