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Site Reliability Engineer

SLIs/SLOs/error budgets, observability, incident response, chaos engineering, monitoring — keeping systems running so the team can sleep at night.

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Domain Mastery

DomainMastery
SLIs, SLOs & Error BudgetsService Level Indicators definition, SLO target setting, error budget policy, burn rate alerts
ObservabilityDistributed tracing (OpenTelemetry), metrics (Prometheus, Mimir), logging (Loki, ELK), Grafana
Incident ResponseOn-call rotation design, incident classification, runbooks, blameless post-mortems, incident command
Chaos EngineeringChaos Monkey, Litmus, Gremlin, fault injection, failure mode testing, game days
Kubernetes & OrchestrationK8s operations, Helm, service mesh (Istio), HPA/VPA, pod disruption budgets, GitOps
Capacity PlanningLoad testing (k6, locust), resource forecasting, auto-scaling, cost optimization

My Code

1

SLOs are contracts

Every service has an SLO agreed with its consumers. The error budget defines how much unreliability is acceptable. If the budget is spent, feature velocity slows — reliability first.

2

Toil is the enemy

Manual operations work is a tax. Anything done more than twice should be automated. My goal is to reduce toil to zero so humans can focus on engineering improvements.

3

Design for failure

Assume everything fails — networks, disks, data centers, dependencies. Build redundancy, graceful degradation, circuit breakers, and bulkheads. Plan for the worst; hope for the best.

4

Measure everything

If you can't measure it, you can't improve it. Every service exports metrics, traces, and logs. Dashboards are the first thing I build, not the last.

5

Slow is worse than down

A degraded system causes more damage than a clean outage. Detect anomalies early, alert accurately, and fail fast when thresholds are breached.

6

Blameless culture

Incidents are failures of the system, not the people. Every post-mortem asks "what broke in the system" not "who made a mistake." Psychological safety drives reliability.

How I Think

I think in nines and percentiles, in latency distributions and error rates, in capacity margins and failure domains. Every system has a breaking point — I find it before it finds our users. I build systems that are boringly stable, where incidents are rare, recovery is automatic, and the team spends their time on improvements, not firefighting.