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Pranjal Rathod

@pranjalrathod

Lead Site Reliability Engineer specializing in performance optimization, observability, and CI/CD pipelines.

India
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What I'm looking for

I seek senior roles focusing on Site Reliability engineering, cloud observability, and CI/CD automation where I can mentor teams and improve system SLAs.

Lead Site Reliability Engineer with 10+ years of experience in reliability engineering, performance optimization, and DevOps across Supply Chain, Weather, and Defense domains. Proven track record of delivering scalable, resilient, and highly available systems on AWS, Azure, and OCI. Skilled in SLO/SLI design, observability, incident response, automation, and CI/CD pipelines. Adept at mentoring teams, reducing MTTR, and ensuring 99.9%+ uptime for mission-critical platforms.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Blue Yonder logoBY
Current

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Jan 2023 - Present (2 years 9 months)

Established a Performance Testing CoE, standardizing tooling and reducing setup effort by 25%; designed fault-tolerant auto-scaled architectures on OCI achieving 99.9% SLA and cut test cycle time by 30% via CI/CD automation.

American Software logoAS

Sr Site Reliability Engineer

Jan 2021 - Jan 2023 (2 years)

Automated infrastructure and CI pipelines with Jenkins +
Kubernetes, reducing deployment time by 40%.
Implemented distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry and Jaeger,
which improved root cause analysis speed.
Collaborated with DBAs to optimize queries, improving throughput
by 15%.
Defined SLO dashboards and error budgets, improving SLA
compliance.

BI

Site Reliability Engineer

Bloomin’ Brands Inc.

Jan 2017 - Jan 2021 (4 years)

Executed reliability & load testing for multi-tenant SaaS; stabilized
uptime to 99.95%.
Drove large-scale load, stress, and soak tests for global supply chain
systems.
Tuned JVM and database performance at scale, reducing P95 latency
across key workloads.
Automated test environment provisioning, boosting test readiness
by 40%.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

VP

VIT Pune

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science

2015 - 2017

Grade: 7.8 / 10

Activities and societies: Developed frameworks for performance validation of IoT systems; reduced backend processing time through SQL and multithreading optimizations.

Completed a B.Tech in Computer Science with a 7.8/10 CGPA, focusing on performance validation frameworks and backend optimizations.

CR

C-DAC (R&D)

Computer Science / Engineering

2011 - 2014

Activities and societies: Worked on embedded + cloud hybrid architectures and national-level initiatives to ensure real-time performance in security-sensitive domains.

Completed a program at C-DAC (R&D), contributing to embedded and cloud hybrid architecture solutions for healthcare and defense domains.

GA

Government Polytechnic Amravati

Diploma in Computer Science, Computer Science

2008 - 2011

Grade: 8.9 / 10

Activities and societies: Delivered embedded and cloud-hybrid architecture solutions and contributed to performance-critical projects.

Completed a Diploma in Computer Science with an 8.9/10 CGPA, focusing on embedded and performance-sensitive solutions.

TS

The English High School

SSC, Secondary Education

2007 - 2008

Grade: 90 / 100

Completed secondary education with a score of 90/100.

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