Kelly Dodd, Reddit
Many environments start out being lovingly maintained by hand, and then grow more complex maintenance functions over time. We present Reddit's approach to taming this complexity - a framework which allows teams to incrementally turn complex sequences of privileged manual steps into well defined high level API calls. Safety, testability, repeatability and accuracy are all improved.
Kelly Dodd is a Senior SRE at Reddit with a multidisciplinary SRE background thanks to an 8 year career spent mostly in the startup world. Most of her time at Reddit, one of the world’s most visited websites, has been focused on developing controls for edge traffic management. Today she is working with Reddit’s Risk team to build a platform for governing high-risk production operations.
When she isn’t staring at a screen she loves to sew (badly) and hang out with her three cats.
Kelly is thrilled to be speaking at SREcon for the first time.
author = {Kelly Dodd},
title = {Systematising Production Operations: Reddit Control Tower},
year = {2025},
address = {Dublin},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = oct
}
