About

Ramesh Padmanabhaiah is a highly experienced and hands-on Site Reliability Engineer with a passion for the big picture. With over 28 years of relevant experience, he is a seasoned leader with a deep understanding of technology, tools, automation, monitoring, standards, and processes that are essential for any SRE organization. Ramesh is a problem solver who specializes in finding practical solutions while caring for the minutest details. Ramesh has a product development and software services background, which gives him the right balance between perfectionism and practicality. He has taken a conscious decision to step aside from leadership and work as an individual contributor to gain a better understanding of the ground-level issues in multiple organizations. He uses his leadership background to selflessly influence team vision and cross-team collaboration. His software product development expertise comes in handy in establishing a broader and effective vision for SRE. Currently, Ramesh is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Twitter, where he started as the very first embedded SRE in the relevance platform team. He played a key role in the build-up of a new data center and established basic SRE hygiene for the team. Ramesh has created several tools for improving monitoring across the board and championed best practices for observability, on-call process, and Pagerduty. He proposed a new SRE model to leadership and is currently working on its implementation. Ramesh has worked with several other companies in the past, including LinkedIn and Ooyala, where he performed regular SRE duties such as load balancing, capacity management, troubleshooting, cost optimization, technical debt reduction, documentation, and on-call rotation for infrastructure availability. He completely rewrote the core part of the Nagios/Check_MK based monitoring tool and automated many SRE tasks using Chef and Ruby. Ramesh holds a Master's Degree in Software Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Bangalore University. He is highly skilled in SRE, Python, infra, and Ruby, and he is passively looking out for senior leadership roles.