SYSTEM ONLINE // SRE CLASSIFICATION: SENIOR

PIYUSH JOSHI Site Reliability Engineer

Kubernetes • Edge Cloud • Database Reliability • Linux Core

Operating at the edge of observable infrastructure. 12+ years engineering distributed systems, bending Kubernetes to my will, and maintaining the gravity of production databases across the cloud continuum.

AKS CLUSTER OPS
EDGE SECURITY
VLDB SCALE

TECHNICAL ARSENAL

Weapons-grade tooling for infrastructure warfare

ORCHESTRATION

Kubernetes

AKS cluster architecture, fault-domain isolation, auto-scaling strategies, and pod security policies.

AKS Helm Operators
KERNEL_OPS

Linux Core

Kernel tuning, systemd management, performance profiling, namespace isolation, and container runtime optimization.

RHEL/Ubuntu Kernel BPF
CONNECTIVITY

Deep Space Networking

DNS architecture, Anycast routing, global traffic management, service mesh, and edge load balancing.

DNS TCP/IP Service Mesh
DATA_GRAVITY

Database Reliability

PostgreSQL & Oracle VLDB tuning, replication strategies, disaster recovery, and I/O optimization.

PostgreSQL Oracle CDC
DEFENSE_GRID

Edge Security

Akamai Bot Manager, Kona Site Defender, WAF policies, DDoS mitigation, and rate limiting strategies.

WAF DDoS Bot Manager
AUTOMATION

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform certified workflows, CI/CD pipeline architecture, configuration management, and GitOps.

Terraform CI/CD GitOps

SYSTEM PROFICIENCY LEVELS

Kubernetes / Container Orchestration 95%
Linux Systems / Kernel Tuning 92%
Network Architecture / DNS / Anycast 88%
Database Performance (PostgreSQL/Oracle) 90%
Terraform / IaC 93%

MISSION EQUIPMENT

piyush@dark-matter:~
$ kubectl get nodes
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION
dark-matter-prod-1 Ready control-plane 12y v1.28.3
dark-matter-edge-2 Ready edge 5y v1.28.3
...
$ terraform apply --auto-approve
Apply complete! Resources: 42 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.
$ psql -c "SELECT version();"
PostgreSQL 15.4 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

FIELD OPERATIONS

Site Reliability Engineer

2020-PRESENT

Akamai Technologies

  • Owning Kubernetes (AKS) platform reliability for latency-sensitive production
  • Edge cloud architecture & DNS-based traffic steering
  • SLI/SLO design, error budgets, incident response
  • Stakeholder management & customer-facing engineering

Senior Database Engineer

2021-2022

Akamai Technologies

  • PostgreSQL & Oracle reliability-critical operations
  • Performance tuning, I/O optimization, DR strategies
  • Defined RTO/RPO with tested backup/restore

Cloud Engineer

2019-2024

Amazon Web Services

  • Cloud-native infrastructure with Terraform automation
  • Kubernetes workload management & capacity planning
  • Customer-facing engineering & stakeholder alignment

Oracle Performance Engineer

2017-2019

Tata Consultancy Services

  • VLDB-scale Oracle platforms for mission-critical apps
  • Production incident response & RCA
  • SQL optimization & partitioning strategies

Oracle DBA

2014-2017

HCL Technologies

  • SLA-driven Oracle database administration
  • Proactive monitoring & capacity management
  • Backup, recovery, replication foundations

CERTIFICATION MATRIX

Terraform Associate

HashiCorp Certified

Infrastructure as Code mastery. Automated provisioning across multi-cloud environments with state management and module architecture.

Solutions Architect

AWS Certified

Cloud architecture design, high availability systems, and cost-optimized infrastructure solutions across global regions.

12+
YEARS EXP
99.9%
UPTIME TARGET
24/7
ON-CALL READY
∞
SCALABILITY

ESTABLISH CONNECTION

Ready to deploy reliability at scale? Let's architect the next generation of distributed systems together.