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Tariq Farooq

@tariqfarooq

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Principal Reliability Engineer and Cloud/DevOps architect delivering secure, scalable, cost‑efficient cloud platforms.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I am seeking senior SRE or cloud/platform roles where I can lead reliability, automation, and FinOps initiatives, mentor teams, and build secure, scalable cloud‑native platforms.

I am an engineering leader with over 10 years of progressive experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering and Cloud Architecture, specializing in infrastructure as code, Kubernetes orchestration, and modern CI/CD automation. I have a proven track record modernizing legacy systems into cloud‑native microservices, driving large‑scale automation, and reducing costs through FinOps strategies while embedding DevSecOps practices.

At Duolingo I defined and enforced SRE principles, led chaos engineering experiments, and implemented unified observability and self‑healing systems; previously I designed multi‑region, fault‑tolerant infrastructure, standardized GitOps pipelines, and mentored teams to raise cloud maturity. I am a hands‑on leader who aligns engineering initiatives with business objectives to deliver secure, resilient, and scalable platforms.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Principal Reliability Engineer

Current

Duolingo

Aug 2023 - Present (2 years 2 months)

Defined and enforced SRE practices including SLAs/SLOs and error budgets, led reliability architecture for multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms, and reduced MTTR through automation and incident process improvements.

SRE Kubernetes Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Chaos Engineering Gremlin Terraform Incident Management

Senior Cloud Engineer

Harness

Apr 2018 - Jul 2023 (5 years 3 months)

Designed multi-region, fault-tolerant AWS/GCP infrastructure, automated provisioning with Terraform/Pulumi, and implemented GitOps-based self-service deployments to improve developer velocity and reduce costs.

Terraform Pulumi AWS GCP)Kubernetes GitOps Istio FinOps

DevOps Engineer

Copado

Jan 2015 - Mar 2018 (3 years 2 months)

Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitLab CI, provisioned environments via Terraform and Ansible, and containerized legacy apps to improve deployment speed and reliability.