Failover Forge

About Failover Forge

We formed around a simple frustration: too many reliability courses stop at vocabulary lists. Our crews rehearse outages, write in public view, and keep mentor ratios small enough for blunt, useful critique.

How the org fits together

Program Director
Lead SRE Instructor
Curriculum Engineer
Community Manager
Enterprise Partnerships Manager

People steering the work

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Jonas Meyer

Program Director

Sets cohort calendars, keeps vendor labs patched, and still joins late-night bridge simulations as a guest reviewer.

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Haneul Park

Lead SRE Instructor

Designs incident drills, enforces blameless tone, and writes the weekly reliability briefing anchors.

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Yuri Cho

Curriculum Engineer

Maps exercises to hiring rubrics and trims scope creep before it hits learners.

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Sora Anders

Community Manager

Runs office hours pacing, peer swaps, and quiet feedback loops between mentor passes.

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Elena Marquez

Enterprise Partnerships Manager

Aligns multi-seat deals with delivery calendars and keeps procurement language plain.

Principles we repeat in every cohort

  • Prefer written decisions over hallway myths.
  • Keep drills small enough to debrief completely.
  • Measure success by repeatable habits, not applause.
  • Share tooling changes transparently with learners.

Milestones

  1. 2019 — First incident lab night in Seoul with twelve participants.
  2. 2022 — Added observability studios after partner teams asked for signal hygiene modules.
  3. 2025 — Expanded APAC-friendly evening cohorts with bilingual office hours.