Pratyush Ranjan Dash
Director – Infrastructure | Platform Engineering | SRE
Bangalore
Summary
Executive engineering leader with 20+ years building and scaling global Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, SRE, and Cloud organizations across SaaS, enterprise software, and cloud businesses. Proven record leading multi-region teams, modernizing platforms, improving reliability, and delivering $3M+ annual cost savings. Strong partner to CTO/CIO/Product leadership on long-range platform strategy, engineering velocity, security, and operational excellence.
Executive Impact
- Built and scaled engineering organizations across India and global locations from 0 to 23+ engineers.
- Delivered $3M+ annual savings through cloud optimization, observability transformation, and platform efficiency initiatives.
- Led migration of 77 production services to Kubernetes platforms, improving scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency.
- Established enterprise reliability governance through SLOs, runbooks, incident command, and operational standards.
- Expanded follow-the-sun operations across India, US, Europe, and Canada, strengthening global production support.
- Built QA automation and shift-left quality programs with 9,000+ automated tests, improving release confidence and deployment velocity.
Core Leadership Areas
Platform Engineering Strategy • Infrastructure Transformation • Site Reliability Engineering Leadership • Cloud Cost Governance • Organizational Design • Reliability Governance • Developer Productivity • Executive Stakeholder Management • Multi-region Operations Leadership
Technology Landscape
AWS • Azure • OCI • Kubernetes (EKS, AKS) • Terraform • Argo CD • Helm • GitHub Actions • Jenkins • Prometheus • Grafana • Splunk • ELK • Datadog • Karpenter • KEDA
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Director of Engineering - Infrastructure
SurveyMonkey
08.2024 - Current
- Established India as a strategic infrastructure delivery center, and hired and scaled a 23-member platform engineering organization.
- Defined a multi-year infrastructure strategy aligned with modernization, reliability, and developer productivity goals.
- Led the migration of 77 production services from EC2 to EKS, improving scalability and delivering $2M in annual savings.
- Drove workload efficiency strategy, leveraging Karpenter and KEDA, increasing resource utilization, and reducing excess cloud spend across Kubernetes environments.
- Led the observability transformation from Datadog to Splunk/SignalFx, generating $1M in annual savings.
- Expanded leadership scope to global SRE operations across multiple regions, strengthening incident readiness, and MTTR performance.
- Led CI transformation using GitHub Actions, standardizing delivery pipelines across teams, and improving release speed.
Principal Engineering Manager
Soroco India Pvt Limited
12.2022 - 05.2024
- Led a 28-member organization spanning DevOps, SRE, QA automation, and release engineering.
- Reduced infrastructure spending by 30% through FinOps controls and architecture optimization.
- Automated AKS upgrade lifecycle, reducing operational toil by 85%.
- Modernized monitoring stack for the Grafana ecosystem, improving visibility while lowering costs by 40%.
- Built a QA automation program with over 9,000 automated test cases, increasing release confidence and delivery predictability.
Engineering Manager - Devops
Oracle India Pvt Limited
04.2016 - 12.2022
- Built and led a 12-member DevOps and SRE organization, supporting Oracle cloud platform initiatives.
- Introduced SRE practices, including SLOs, incident response, and proactive monitoring.
- Led cloud-native platform modernization using Kubernetes and OCI.
- Established observability and deployment standards, improving reliability across enterprise environments.
Lead Member of Technical Staff
Kaseya India Pvt Limited
08.2014 - 03.2016
- Led and mentored a team of five DevOps engineers supporting infrastructure automation initiatives.
- Built server automation and self-service provisioning workflows, including single-click VM deployment.
- Designed and implemented private cloud infrastructure using OpenStack and Ceph.
- Implemented failover and recovery solutions to improve platform resilience and service continuity.
- Managed CI/CD pipelines and operational workflows using Jenkins and Rundeck.
Lead QA Engineer
Symphony Teleca
03.2010 - 08.2014
Sr.Member of Tech Staff
Dimdim Inc(Salesforce)
07.2009 - 03.2010
Sr Product Engineer
CoreObjects India Pvt Limited
12.2007 - 07.2009
Sr QA Engineer
Digital Harbor
02.2007 - 11.2007
SSE
TCS
07.2002 - 01.2007
Education
B. E - Electrical Engineering
NIT Rourkela
Rourkela 06.1997 - 06.2001
Additional Information
Open source contributor to enterprise Kubernetes deployment repositories for IDM products.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Timeline
Director of Engineering - Infrastructure
SurveyMonkey
08.2024 - Current
Principal Engineering Manager
Soroco India Pvt Limited
12.2022 - 05.2024
Engineering Manager - Devops
Oracle India Pvt Limited
04.2016 - 12.2022
Lead Member of Technical Staff
Kaseya India Pvt Limited
08.2014 - 03.2016
Lead QA Engineer
Symphony Teleca
03.2010 - 08.2014
Sr.Member of Tech Staff
Dimdim Inc(Salesforce)
07.2009 - 03.2010
Sr Product Engineer
CoreObjects India Pvt Limited
12.2007 - 07.2009
Sr QA Engineer
Digital Harbor
02.2007 - 11.2007
SSE
TCS
07.2002 - 01.2007
B. E - Electrical Engineering
NIT Rourkela
06.1997 - 06.2001