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Salman Siddiqui

@salmansiddiqui1

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Senior Platform Engineer focused on scalable, observable cloud-native infrastructure and SRE practices.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek a hands-on senior platform/SRE role where I can build reliable, observable cloud-native platforms, reduce costs, and scale services while contributing to developer productivity and open-source.

I am a Senior Platform Engineer with deep experience building cloud-native, observable, and cost-efficient infrastructure for high-scale services. I design and operate platforms that onboard hundreds of applications, standardize CI/CD, and deliver measurable reliability improvements.

My work has included developing SIEM agents, onboarding GPU clusters, implementing autoscaling policies, and migrating critical services to more resilient architectures. I champion observability—building unified stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo), internal SDKs for telemetry, and centralized SLO frameworks that cut MTTR and alert fatigue.

I drive platform improvements via Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi, Terraform), GitOps (ArgoCD), and automation, delivering multi-region active-active systems, self-healing infrastructure, and significant cost optimizations. I enjoy contributing to open-source operators, CLIs, and Pulumi components to advance reliability and developer productivity.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Platform Engineer

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Urban Company

Jun 2025 - Present (1 year)

Developed a SIEM agent and onboarded GPU-backed ML clusters with autoscaling and profiling, reduced cluster costs via GPU metrics and migrated workloads from Spotinst to ASG while implementing volume and IP preservation logic.

Kubernetes AWS AutoScaling Linux Networking Pulumi Docker Observability Cost Optimization

Senior Platform & SRE Engineer

Blusmart

Apr 2024 - May 2025 (1 year 1 month)

Architected a multi-tenant real-time payment platform with 99.999% uptime, built an HMAC-secured API gateway with sub-50ms p95 latency, and engineered Kafka messaging handling 100M+ events/day while cutting MTTR by 60%.

Kubernetes Kafka Prometheus Pulumi GitHub Actions ArgoCD Observability

Platform Engineer III (SRE)

Ticketmaster USA

Oct 2022 - Apr 2024 (1 year 6 months)

Onboarded 100+ applications to a central Kubernetes platform, built an observability stack processing 3B+ metrics/day and reduced MTTR by 65% through standardized tooling and SRE practices.

Kubernetes Prometheus Grafana Loki Tempo Helm CI CD Observability

Software Engineer

Airtel Africa

Jul 2021 - Sep 2022 (1 year 2 months)

Designed and scaled financial microservices across 12 countries handling millions of concurrent transactions and integrated OpenTelemetry monitoring across 50+ systems for improved visibility.

Java Microservices OpenTelemetry PostgreSQL Distributed Systems Scalability API Design