Tavis Aitken is an experienced Principal SRE at Splunk, having previously held positions as Principal Cloud Engineer at VictorOps and Sr. Cloud Engineer at Oracle. With a degree in Computer Science from Grand Valley State University, Aitken is proficient in programming and systems administration, blending his skills to develop and deploy software on a scalable infrastructure. He has worked on challenging programming projects while also building and honing his toolbox of skills as a systems administrator. His other past roles include DevOps Engineer / Team Lead at Shutterstock, ITDeveloper, and Developer at Beatport, and Developer/System Admin at Solidus Design.