Havyas H K
Bengaluru
Summary
Site Reliability Engineer with proven success in leading FinOps initiatives, achieving a 300% increase in microservices deployment. Expertise in high-availability architecture and disaster recovery, complemented by strong skills in automating cloud infrastructure. Focused on operational excellence and compliance with regulatory standards.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Team Lead)
Angel One
11.2023 - Current
- Team Leadership: Leading a high-performing team of nine SREs; responsible for workload distribution, technical career coaching, and aligning infrastructure roadmaps with business growth.
- Financial Impact: Engineered a site-wide FinOps strategy (RDS, ECS, S3), saving $900K/month ($10.8M ARR), while maintaining 99.99% availability for trading systems.
- Hyper-Scale Management: Orchestrated the infrastructure evolution from 100 to 300+ microservices, standardizing service discovery and deployment for a 300% business expansion.
- Mission-critical resilience: Designed and executed HA/DR frameworks for 10 core services, ensuring regulatory compliance, and zero-data-loss business continuity.
- Security Governance: Led the mass rollout of critical VAPT security remediations across hundreds of ECS services, under aggressive regulatory timelines.
- Strategic Automation: Eliminated $60K per month in overhead by automating the lifecycle and decommissioning of orphaned AWS assets.
Senior SRE
Intuit
05.2018 - 11.2023
- Leadership: Served as Sprint Manager for a team of six; established quarterly goals and agile workflows that accelerated delivery velocity by 30%.
- Extreme Scale: Led the U.S. Tax Peak War Room, managing infrastructure sustaining 240,000 requests per second (RPS) with 100% uptime during national tax deadlines.
- Operational Excellence: Achieved an 80% reduction in BU-wide monthly incidents by re-architecting observability and log aggregation using Grafana and Graylog.
- Zero-To-One Automation: Spearheaded a 'Code-Only' infrastructure policy, automating 100% of AWS provisioning via Chef and CloudFormation.
- Legacy Modernisation: Reduced deployment lead time for the Mint PFM monolith by 60% through CI/CD pipeline optimisation (Jenkins/Nexus).
Senior DevOps Engineer
Freecharge
03.2016 - 05.2018
- DevOps Culture: Evangelised CI/CD and automation standards across the organisation, training 50+ engineers in Ansible, Jenkins, and AWS.
- Stability: Maintained 24/7 on-call ownership for major fintech components; identified and resolved performance bottlenecks using Zabbix and Graylog.
Senior Engineer
Robert Bosch
07.2015 - 02.2016
- Global Delivery: Directed CI/CD rollouts for global OEM infotainment projects, mentoring teams on Jenkins and Clearcase under compressed delivery cycles.
Software Engineer
Tamagna Technologies
07.2013 - 07.2015
- Release Engineering: Engineered branching and labeling strategies for complex product integrations and automated environment-specific deployment scripts.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communications
Adichunchanagiri Institute of Technology
Chikmaglur07-2013
Skills
- Leadership and management
- Financial operations
- Crisis management
- Reliability engineering
- High availability architecture
- Service level indicators and objectives governance
- Hybrid cloud solutions (AWS and GCP)
- Site reliability engineering methodologies
- Cloud infrastructure oversight
- High-availability systems design
- Continuous deployment practices
Websites
Accomplishments
Received an organizational-level award for cost optimization of $900,000 per month.
Timeline
Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Team Lead)
Angel One
11.2023 - Current
Senior SRE
Intuit
05.2018 - 11.2023
Senior DevOps Engineer
Freecharge
03.2016 - 05.2018
Senior Engineer
Robert Bosch
07.2015 - 02.2016
Software Engineer
Tamagna Technologies
07.2013 - 07.2015
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communications
Adichunchanagiri Institute of Technology