Jeremy Edberg

Jeremy Edberg is an American engineer who was one of Reddit's earliest employees, describing himself as the company's first DevOps engineer before the discipline was widely named. In Reddit's early years he was responsible for the site's operations, reliability, and internal tooling, and he worked on anti-spam and anti-cheat systems intended to protect the integrity of Reddit's voting and submission mechanics. He has said that a large share of his time was spent building the internal tools the small team relied on to keep the rapidly growing site running. After leaving Reddit he became an early reliability engineer at Netflix, where he worked on the company's cloud infrastructure, and he later founded and advised infrastructure-focused startups. His account of Reddit's early engineering is frequently cited in discussions of how the site scaled from a tiny operation into a major platform.