Rahul De

Public Cloud SRE and Observability

• Led the SRE team for the EMEA region, managing both strategic and people responsibilities.
• Led multiple sister platform teams to deliver quality services to our users in the rest of the bank and beyond powered by business critical SLOs.
• Specialised on Networking SRE, complex trouble shooting and delivering large number of compute platforms across thousands of devs on-prem and public cloud.
• Built developer productivity tooling to simplify and enhance the lives of our fellow devs and help them scale along with their workloads.
• Work on building and scaling efficient metric and log storage infrastructures based of Victoria Metrics and Thanos to improve ingestion of millions of metrics per second and efficient querying and storage costs.
• Design and deliver high scale services and run 800+ kubernetes clusters at scale for critical financial services.
• Design and implemement an AI driven Threat Modelling System automating the choke point of thousands of devs to few threat modellers, multiplying path to production for hundreds of projects across Citi.

SRE and Platform Engineering

• Build and maintain the main storage and search infrastructure: A ~45TB/week, 40+ Node, HA Elasticsearch cluster forming the critical business core. Was responsible for efficient sharding and document lifecycle design, optimising query performance and data recall, cheaper storage costs and tooling for HA cluster maintenance and improve user UX.
• Build and maintain the internal developer mainly Clojure, Go, Python based productivity tooling.
• Build, maintain and improve the company wide infrastructure, CI/CD, design of the AWS cloud.
• Mentor and lead dev teams for best practices from both dev and SRE mindsets.

Leading and mentoring infrastructure and SRE/Platform heavy teams across various client projects

• Building a cross region, secure and robust k8s deployment platform for teams for a big automobile company.
• Design and build a high throughput and scaleable API Gateway for e-commerce teams, driven, and tested E2E with OpenAPI standards.
• Built custom networking and monitoring tooling for data heavy teams.

Part of the in-house CI/CD team

• Build and maintain the in-house company wide CI/CD platform, custom built from scratch in Clojure for scale, handling hundreds of deployments/day with high concurrency.
• Design monitoring and metrics tooling for supporting the SRE teams. Build custom CD tooling for data pipelines

Part of the search engine team

• Build the real time smart search engine which classifies rich queries and shows results as users type. Very robust and high throughput service at up-to 600k req/sec.
• Build pipelines and infra for both dev and data teams, enabling high throughput and confidence deliveries.

Part of various delivery projects

• Design and build an innovative system for doctors of MSF in challenging places record, store and transmit critical health data.
• Build the backend and the delivery system for Bahmni including its packaging system.
• Build pipelines and infra for both dev and data Build the cloud network and CDN system for a big gaming entertainment company.