Drew Middlesworth

Drew Middlesworth has extensive work experience in the field of DevOps, site reliability engineering, and systems administration. Drew started their career as a Systems Administrator intern at HP and Agilent Technologies in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Drew continued working as a Systems Administrator intern at ChainCast Networks in 2002 and 2003.

In 2005, they joined Perfect Market as a Systems Administrator, where they supported 220 co-located servers for production sites.

From 2006 to 2008, Drew worked as a Linux Systems Administrator at Google, where they developed corporate Ubuntu workstation and server distributions.

In 2008, they joined SoundHound as a Staff IT/Production Operations Engineer. There, they handled over 900 systems in 3 data centers and expanded the department to a team of 5, with over 1400 systems serving millions of customers.

In 2017, Drew joined Medallia as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, where they handled software development projects, service requests, and participated in the primary production on-call rotation. Drew also authored a document highlighting potential improvements for production.

Their most recent position is at Diffbot, where they started in 2018 as the Lead DevOps. In this role, they reported directly to the CEO and was responsible for running all production, development, and IT infrastructure. Drew also reduced total infrastructure costs by implementing dynamic systems and optimizing cloud services utilization.

Overall, Drew Middlesworth has a diverse range of experiences, working in various roles that involve infrastructure and operations, project management, and cost optimization.

Drew Middlesworth earned a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from UCLA in 2004.