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Chaitanya Kulkarni

Chaitanya Kulkarni

Site Reliability Engineer
Pune

Summary

Results-driven Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and Shift Lead with over 3.5 years of experience in ensuring high-availability production systems and executing complex cloud solutions. Recognized for cultivating cohesive team dynamics among groups exceeding 45 members, significantly enhancing operational productivity and ensuring business continuity. Proficient in core cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP, with expertise in configuration management using Puppet and automation tools like Jenkins and Linux. Committed to leveraging extensive technical acumen and leadership capabilities to drive success for client organizations.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Site Reliability Engineer & Shift Lead

Crest Data Systems
01.2022 - Current
  • Team Leadership: Served as Shift Lead for a large, cross-functional 45-member SRE team, overseeing all end-to-end shift activities, task delegation, and performance mentorship.
  • Operational Excellence: Managed and maintained a high-availability production cloud infrastructure utilizing Linux, AWS, GCP, Puppet, Jenkins, and SignalFx.
  • Incident Management: Led incident response and root cause analysis (RCA) for critical production failures, successfully reducing mean time to resolution.
  • Deployment: Successfully deployed and managed customer-requested changes across production environments, ensuring zero downtime via robust CI/CD pipelines.
  • Documentation: Standardized operational documentation, including runbooks, playbooks, and Post-Incident Reviews (PIRs), to ensure swift and consistent team responses, and knowledge transfer.
  • Collaboration: Collaborated cross-functionally with internal development and external client teams to ensure strict adherence to Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

AR/VR Developer (Team Lead Internship)

Jnana Prabodhini
06.2021 - 12.2021
  • Leadership: Led a small development team to successfully complete the project before the mandated deadline.
  • Development: Designed and built an Augmented Reality (AR) application based on concepts from the 8th-grade SSC Geography curriculum.
  • Tools: Leveraged the Unity platform for application development and Vuforia for creating the AR/VR environment.
  • Design: Contributed to 2D and 3D object design using software such as Blender.

Education

BTech - Computer Engineering

Vishwakarma University
Pune, India
04.2001 -

Skills

AWS

GCP

Splunk

Relationship management

Incident Command

Process Improvement

Team Management

Additional Information

  • Ready to Join within 30Days

Timeline

Site Reliability Engineer & Shift Lead

Crest Data Systems
01.2022 - Current

AR/VR Developer (Team Lead Internship)

Jnana Prabodhini
06.2021 - 12.2021

BTech - Computer Engineering

Vishwakarma University
04.2001 -

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