Experience

May 2025 — Present · Berlin, Germany

Lead and mentor SRE and Security engineers, fostering psychological safety, equitable processes, and individualized growth plans.
Rolled out SRE best practices—SLOs, incident/change management, and on-call rotations—across 14 product teams to raise platform reliability.
Co-designed the data platform that unlocks real-time analytics on 1.5B+ annual payment transactions.
Defined the long-term roadmap for SRE and Security, delivering a self-service platform with GenAI automation that eliminates manual toil.

Technologies & Tools

Kubernetes Terraform Prometheus Grafana GCP Python Go GenAI Spanner Backstage FluxCD Istio GitHub Action

Jun 2022 — Mar 2025 · Berlin, Germany

Led a 6-person SRE team responsible for release, in-production, and monitoring strategies, cutting service disruptions by half.
Scaled SRE culture with training and process optimization that improved system reliability by 80% and reduced MTTR by 50%.
Partnered with Engineering and Product to revamp CI/CD and automated testing, gaining 8% uptime and 70% higher user satisfaction.
Drove projects such as Edge Compute, CDN, service discovery, and IDP, achieving 12% cost savings and a 90% observability uplift.

Technologies & Tools

Docker AWS ECS Terraform Consul DataDog PagerDuty Python Go AWS Secret Manager Fastly Cloudflare CloudFront AWS

Feb 2020 — May 2022 · Berlin, Germany

Led the Platform Automation Team for PSNow, delivering tooling that reduced manual operational tasks by 40%.
Ran hybrid infrastructure across AWS and 20+ global data centers to maintain 99.99% uptime for the cloud gaming service.
Built a Prometheus/Grafana-based observability platform and improved incident visibility, cutting downtime incidents by 30%.

Technologies & Tools

Ansible Terraform Packer Prometheus Grafana AlertManager ELK Kubernetes Docker Vault Python Go AWS Hybrid Infrastructure

Aug 2019 — Jan 2020 · Berlin, Germany

Migrated critical services from on-prem data centers to GCP, reducing infrastructure spend by 15%.
Designed CI/CD pipelines for hybrid deployments, halving release times while improving reliability.
Optimized cloud architecture with efficient load balancing and caching to trim latency by 20%.

Technologies & Tools

GCP Terraform Docker Kubernetes Python CI/CD

Dec 2017 — Jul 2019 · Berlin, Germany

Managed distributed systems that power real-time energy trading operations.
Implemented infrastructure to remotely operate 200+ hydropower plants.
Migrated and optimized services to sustain 100% availability across multiple data centers.

Technologies & Tools

Ansible Terraform Docker Kubernetes Python Hybrid Infrastructure

Feb 2017 — Nov 2017 · Berlin, Germany

Designed microservice architectures along with process and data flows for the hospitality platform.
Managed and monitored AWS workloads to maintain 99.99% uptime.
Enabled auto-scaling and secure delivery pipelines to remove manual operational effort.

Technologies & Tools

AWS Docker Terraform Ansible Python Microservices

Jul 2015 — Jan 2017 · Bengaluru, India

Built web and mobile applications with highly available infrastructure and zero-downtime releases.
Delivered ML, big data, and microservice projects while refining requirements directly with clients.
Championed collaboration between product stakeholders and delivery teams for faster launches.

Technologies & Tools

Python Java AWS Docker Machine Learning Big Data Microservices

Jan 2015 — Apr 2015 · Noida, India

Developed ERP systems using open-source technologies for large e-commerce clients.
Built scalable web applications on an in-house open-source framework.

Technologies & Tools

Python PostgreSQL Open-source