Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Technical Lead) | Jan 2023 — Present
Strategic Cost Optimisation (FinOps): Architected the "Strategic Tax Transformation" migration from on-premise to AWS EKS; designed auto-scaling policies and optimised container resource limits, driving a measurable $10M USD annual reduction in compute spend.
Chaos Engineering Leadership: Owned and delivered the annual Chaos Engineering OKR with a 96% completion rate; designed the Domain-Driven Architecture (DDD) for a custom Cloud Inventory & Chaos Platform, mapping user journeys to identify failure modes across the portfolio.
Observability Architecture: Engineered an AIOps-driven telemetry stack using Dynatrace and Fluent-bit sidecars; implemented predictive anomaly detection that improved Mean-Time-To-Recovery (MTTR) by 60% for regulatory-critical P1 incidents.
Reliability Strategy: Negotiated Error Budgets and SLAs with Product VPs using Game Theory principles to align feature velocity with platform stability incentives.
Technical Coaching: Acted as the primary SRE Coach for the India region; mentored 4 junior associates on incident management and "Site Reliability" culture, shifting the team mindset from reactive support to proactive engineering.
 

Site Reliability Engineer | Jan 2020 — Dec 2022
Cloud Migration: Co-led the cloud adoption strategy for the Tax Suite; executed "decomposition patterns" to break monoliths into micro-services, reducing infrastructure overhead by $300k USD.
Crisis Engineering: Orchestrated the "Return to Office" logistics platform during COVID-19; led database modelling and load testing to support $11M USD in rapid procurement within 3 weeks.

Software Analyst Role | July 2017 — Dec 2019
Developed Spring Boot/Angular tax engines for UK/India markets; optimised database migrations using Liquibase to reduce downtime by 99% during critical filing windows.

• Force for Good Champion: Led cross-functional engineering teams to deliver non-profit solutions; managed stakeholder expectations and delivered MVP within aggressive timelines.
• Global Tech Winner: Winner of JPMorgan’s Global "Market Making" competition for innovative banking architecture.

MBA (pursuing), Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2024-2026
B.E (Computer Science), Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, 2013-2017
XII, AP state board, Vijaya Ratna College, Hyderabad, 2013
X, CBSE, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Hyderabad, 2011
 

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate , 2022
Oracle Certified Professional (Java SE), 2016

A published poet, Winner of AWrtingAngle Challenge for the poetry book “Similar Yet, Very Different”.