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Divya Menon

Site reliability engineer — SLOs, observability and incidents that end with a better system

Staff Site Reliability Engineer · Paylane

divya@example.com | Bengaluru, India | zenoprofile.com/divya | github.com/example | linkedin.com/in/example | example.com

Professional Summary

Eight years of reliability work for payment and marketplace platforms: SLOs and error budgets, Kubernetes at scale, OpenTelemetry end to end, incident command and the engineering that follows. 99.99 % over the last eighteen months, with the receipts.

Work Experience

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Paylane

Bengaluru · Sep 2022 – Present

Reliability lead for a payments platform; team of six; SLO platform, observability, incident process.

  • 99.99 % availability over the last eighteen months against a 99.95 % SLO
  • Mean time to recovery 54 → 12 minutes with alert routing on burn rate and runbook automation
  • OpenTelemetry across 140 services; 60 % of dashboards retired, the rest used daily

Site Reliability Engineer, Marketo Bazaar

Bengaluru · Oct 2019 – Aug 2022

Reliability for a marketplace with festival-season peaks of 30× normal traffic.

  • Ran the first chaos days; found and fixed nine single points of failure before the sale season
  • Kubernetes capacity model that cut over-provisioning 40 %

Backend Engineer, Finly

Bengaluru · Jun 2018 – Sep 2019

Services for a lending product; became the person who got paged, then the person who fixed why.

Education

B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, PES University

Aug 2014 – May 2018

Skills

SLOs and error budgets, Incident command, Capacity planning, Chaos engineering, Prometheus / Thanos, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki / Tempo, Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Terraform, Go, Python, PromQL

Certifications

Projects

slo-platform — Lead

2023 – present

SLO definitions as code, burn-rate alerts, error-budget reports to every team lead on Monday morning. 210 SLOs, 140 services.

incident-bot — Author

2024

Opens the channel, pages the right people, keeps the timeline, drafts the postmortem. Nobody writes the timeline by hand any more.

https://example.com/incident-bot

Chaos days — Organiser

2020 – present

Quarterly game days with real failure injection in production-like environments; 31 findings fixed so far.

Achievements

Publications

Languages

English (Fluent), Malayalam (Native), Kannada (Conversational)