Currently, Site Reliability Engineering Manager @ Arista Networks Inc, on CloudVision SaaS team.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, I am a

  • Postmortem perfectionist, starting from RCA to action item closure
  • Chaotic breaker of systems and code
  • Fanatic reverse engineer
  • Lover of deep diving into code for any systems I run
  • Automate everything I do more than once

As an Engineering Manager, I manage by

  • Showing I deeply care and respect my reports via leading by example and being transparent
  • Aligning individual goals with wider team/product objectives
  • Helping people find purpose and meaning in what they do
  • Removing obstacles from growth paths

As a SRE Team Lead, I lead by

  • Setting clear priorities for the product and team around service uptime, while …
  • Balancing product, team, and individual priorities
  • Carefully monitoring oncall stress/burn out, toil, postmortem and action item closures, and project progress
  • Creating a firm identity SRE to which team members can align to
  • Leading greater SRE culture adoption within the company
  • Defining quarterly and yearly goals for both short and long term planning