Tom Partington

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Tom has held many different titles, the most recent of which is Site Reliability Engineer, but despite what the job was called the work has generally remained the same. Trying to keep systems running with sticky-tape and glue (and not always successfully). Understanding how things break became somewhat of an obsession and he fell deep into the safety science rabbit hole where he discovered that many other industries have been studying accidents and human performance long before these computer things became popular.

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