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
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator — CNCF, Apr 2021 (valid to Apr 2027)
- Google Professional Cloud Architect — Google Cloud, Jul 2023 (valid to Jul 2025)
- Prometheus Certified Associate — CNCF, Jan 2024
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
- 99.99 % availability, eighteen months running, 2025
- MTTR 54 → 12 minutes, 2024
- Nine single points of failure found and fixed before the sale season, 2020
Languages
English (Fluent), Malayalam (Native), Kannada (Conversational)