Sathiyanarayanan G
Bengaluru
Summary
Results-oriented Platform Engineering Leader with 12+ years of experience designing, automating, and optimizing scalable cloud-native infrastructure and platform operations. Proven expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), with a strong focus on improving performance, resilience, and delivery efficiency.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Lead
Rakuten India Enterprise Pvt. Ltd
Bengaluru
03.2023 - Current
- Own platform reliability and scalability for travel and e-commerce systems handling high-traffic workloads.
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins across Dev, QA, Staging, and Production.
- Improve observability and incident response using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
- Lead engineering teams, conduct design reviews, and establish platform engineering best practices.
- Manage release coordination, on-call operations, and cross-team execution.
SDE3
Hubilo
Bengaluru
06.2022 - 03.2023
- Designed and developed scalable backend services for a high-traffic event platform.
- Improved performance through query optimization and caching strategies.
- Built CI pipelines and enhanced development workflows.
- Contributed to system design discussions for scalable architectures.
- Mentored junior engineers.
Senior Systems Engineer II (DevOps)
Rakuten India Enterprise Pvt. Ltd
Bengaluru
12.2015 - 06.2022
- Managed internal PaaS platform built on Mesos and Marathon.
- Automated build and release processes using Jenkins and scripting.
- Improved deployment efficiency and reduced release failures.
- Led incident troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
- Acted as team lead for operations and release management.
Engineer - Production Operations
InMobi
Bengaluru
02.2015 - 12.2015
- Managed Linux production systems ensuring high availability.
- Automated operational tasks using shell scripting.
- Supported storage and LVM management.
System Engineer
CSS Corp Pvt Ltd
Chennai
08.2012 - 02.2015
- Installed and configured Linux servers and applications.
- Managed DNS, DHCP, Apache, and Tomcat environments.
- Implemented monitoring using Nagios.
- Supported SLA compliance using ITIL practices.
Education
Master of Computer Applications -
Bharathiar University
CoimbatoreSkills
- AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, ALB, Auto Scaling)
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Terraform
- CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
- Configuration Management (Ansible, Chef)
- Observability (Prometheus, ELK, Grafana)
- Python
- Bash
- Git
- SRE (Incident Management, RCA)
- Agile
Websites
Certification
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Accomplishments
- Reduced deployment time by 40-60% through CI/CD automation.
- Improved MTTR by 30-40% using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
- Reduced infrastructure provisioning effort by 50%+ using Terraform.
- Built scalable AWS and Kubernetes platforms for high-traffic systems.
- Led and mentored a team of 5-10 engineers across releases and design reviews.
Personal Information
Title: Staff Platform Engineer | Senior SRE | DevOps Architect
Languages
English
Proficient
C2
Tamil
Proficient
C2
Kannada
Beginner
A1
Timeline
Technical Lead
Rakuten India Enterprise Pvt. Ltd
03.2023 - Current
SDE3
Hubilo
06.2022 - 03.2023
Senior Systems Engineer II (DevOps)
Rakuten India Enterprise Pvt. Ltd
12.2015 - 06.2022
Engineer - Production Operations
InMobi
02.2015 - 12.2015
System Engineer
CSS Corp Pvt Ltd
08.2012 - 02.2015
Master of Computer Applications -
Bharathiar University