I seek senior roles focusing on Site Reliability engineering, cloud observability, and CI/CD automation where I can mentor teams and improve system SLAs.
Pranjal Rathod
@pranjalrathod
Lead Site Reliability Engineer specializing in performance optimization, observability, and CI/CD pipelines.
What I'm looking for
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
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.
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.
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%.
Performance Test Engineer
BNY Mellon
Jan 2014 - Jan 2015 (1 year)
Developed performance validation frameworks for IoT and backend systems, reduced backend processing time by 25% through SQL and multithreading optimizations, and stabilized multi-tenant SaaS environments.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
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.
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.
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.
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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