Sadanand Gowda

SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India6 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

Over six years of experience in Site Reliability and DevOps.
Expert in building and automating cloud-native platforms.
Passionate about observability and data-driven reliability.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Site Reliability Engineer with strong DevOps capabilities.

Contact

sadanand.gowda@volvocars.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Site Reliability EngineeringDevopsSoftware Development EngineeringInfrastructure ManagementCloud Native Development

Other Skills

AWSAlternate Reality (AR)Amazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsAndroid DevelopmentAnsibleApache DruidApache FlinkApache KafkaArgoArgoCDAzure DevOpsAzure DevOps ServicesAzure FunctionsBackstage

About

I’m a Senior Site Reliability & DevOps Engineer with over six years of experience building, automating, and operating cloud-native platforms at scale across Azure, AWS, and OpenStack. My work focuses on developer enablement, reliability, and observability automating everything from provisioning to monitoring. I design GitOps-driven platforms using ArgoCD, Backstage, Terraform, and Flux, implement secure CI/CD pipelines, and maintain service uptime targets above 99.9 %. Passionate about observability and data-driven reliability, I’ve built SDK-based OpenTelemetry instrumentation, integrated Grafana Alloy / Prometheus / ELK stacks, and designed synthetic monitoring pipelines (Python → Node.js). I’m equally hands-on with DevSecOps and FinOps, embedding Vault, OPA, and Infracost into IaC workflows for secure, cost-efficient cloud delivery. Recently, I’ve expanded into Chaos Engineering, AIOps, and Platform Engineering, exploring tools like LitmusChaos, eBPF-based Pixie/Cilium, and predictive monitoring with Grafana ML. Outside work, I experiment with observability and APM tools such as Dynatrace in personal R&D projects continually learning to bridge software engineering, operations, and system reliability. Core Strengths: • Multi-cloud IaC (Terraform / Ansible / Crossplane) • GitOps & Platform Engineering • Observability (OTel / Grafana / Azure Monitor / CloudWatch) • Chaos + Resilience Testing • DevSecOps / FinOps Integration • Python / Go / Node.js Automation

Experience

6 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Volvo cars

Site Reliability Engineer

Dec 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Working as a Site Reliability Engineer with responsibilities ranging from automation
of CICD to development with tools such as NodeJS, Backstage, GIthub Actions, Jsonnet, ArgoCD and Azure DevOps to monitoring using Promtheus, Grafana/ELK, Grafana Alloy, OpenTelemetry(OTel)(Started with auto instrumentation now implemented SDK based), etc. and providing OnCall support.
Synthetic Monitoring using Python/NodeJS(Started with Python later migrated to NodeJS for easier development team integration).
Handling migration from AWS to Azure cloud platform along with backup with Terraform restructuring and resource management.
Upholding SLOs using monitoring stacks such as Elastic cloud, Azure monitoring, alert system on Slack, Pagerduty.
Building end to end CICD using Backstage Template, ArgoCD with Jsonnet declarations, Github Actions.
Providing extensive support to end customers who use our CICD services.
Enhancing Documentations for easy readability from third person perspective, providing
troubleshooting as well as workaround solutions pertaining to our product.
Handling incidents and gathering required logs and metrics for conducting a triage and evaluating with team for an effective preventive solution, building robust cloud native infra.
Collaboration with Dev teams to discuss and develop solutions for faster product cycles and deployment.
Personal Interest - Currently maintaining a pet project that runs an app monitored by OSS and Dynatrace.

NodeJSBackstageGitHub ActionsJsonnetArgoCDAzure DevOps+7

Sanketika

2 roles

Software Development Engineer (SDE) 2

Apr 2023 – Dec 2023 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Designed, implemented, and managed CI/CD pipelines to facilitate data engineering stack applications
across multiple projects and building resilient and robust infra to run population scale transactions ranging in millions per seconds.
Developed One-click installation of HA data engineering stack including but not limited to Kafka, Flink,
Druid.
Created a self-hosted mobile k8s environment using KinD to run a data pipeline stack including capable to run on any local machine with limited resources and CPU architecture
agnostic.
Ensure the availability, scalability, and security of infrastructure and applications in cloud environments
(e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Monitor and troubleshoot production systems, addressing issues and minimizing downtime.
Implement and maintain containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using tools like Terraform and Ansible.
Participate in on-call rotation to stay on top of production issues.

CI/CD pipelinesKafkaFlinkDruidTerraformAnsible+4

Senior DevOps Engineer

Feb 2022 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Co-designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for microservice applications using Jenkins(JCasC)
with Jenkins running as a K8s service and runner agents as perishable Fargate containers and GitHub
Actions.
Handled complete end to end migration of multiple Jenkins CICD environments to Github Actions.
Automated Infrastructure provisioning and configuration using tools like Terraform.
Managed and maintained cloud infrastructure on AWS including EKS, EC2, Amazon MKS, CloudFront,
CloudFormation, S3 and RDS through critical production environments.
Implemented monitoring and alerting solutions using stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki,
Opentelemetry instrumentation.

JenkinsGitHub ActionsTerraformAWSEKSEC2+6

Nokia

2 roles

Development Engineer

Jul 2019 – Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Worked as a Software Development Engineer to co-build and maintain Lifecycle Management Tool of
Zero Touch Services platform for Nokia CNFs and VNFs.
Developed the tool using Python, Go, Protobuf and reasonable usage of shell script.
Ensured end to end deployment with status checks on each stage and developed switching mechanism
based on requirements for end users.
Extensively used Docker, Kubernetes and Helm to develop and maintain cloud native applications.
Worked with Envoy and Consul to enhance service mesh component and communication. between the
application microservices and end user agents.
Debugged and involved in troubleshooting production grade issues over private network.
Upkeep of documentaion of the tool, usage, troubleshooting, etc.

PythonGoProtobufDockerKubernetesHelm+4

Student Intern

Jan 2019 – Jul 2019 · 6 mos

Interned under NEX Team, Nokia to build an AR/VR streaming application to reduce latency and stream video with high-res quality using SIP protocol.
Built an Android live screen streaming client application to enable high bit rate and low latency streaming with AR objects over 5G.
Researched and published thesis for the same.

SIP protocolAndroid Development