About

Suresh Kumar Khemka is an accomplished Head of Platform Engineering & Infrastructure at apna, with a passion for SRE and Performance Engineering. With over 15 years of experience, he has enabled applications and products for high performance, scale, and reliability in various domains such as e-commerce, retail, telecom, manufacturing, logistics, and banking. In his previous role as the Global Site Reliability Lead of EY Cloud Platform, Suresh was responsible for shaping client technologies products and services for 5 9's of availability through the application of SRE practices, application and cloud performance engineering, tuning, observability and monitoring, and Ops strategy. He is a Site Reliability evangelist and works with teams to ensure highly scalable and reliable operations using his deep expertise in SRE, Performance Engineering and Testing, Reliability Engineering, Business and infrastructure monitoring through a methodical and concrete approach for DevOps/SRE Adoption. During his 6 years at WalmartLabs, Suresh played an instrumental role in defining best practices for Performance Optimization & Tuning of the full software stack for Walmart's migration to OpenStack Private cloud and Service-oriented architecture. He led operations for Walmart.com's Supply chain, helped launch their two-day delivery capabilities, and improved on-time shipment metrics to over 96.6% despite a 300% increase in shipments. Suresh also contributed to the launch of Walmart Stores' Online grocery migration as it grew from one to 1,300 stores and maintained a consistent Net Promoter Score by implementing a comprehensive Monitoring/Operations strategy with proactive problem identification through analytics and introducing self-healing capabilities within the software systems. Suresh's educational background includes a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science & Engineering from Jai Narain Vyas University. He has also attended Kendriya Vidyalaya. Suresh's tech stack includes SRE, infra, test, DevOps, and Senior Software Engineer. With 18.37 years of relevant experience, Suresh is a highly skilled and experienced professional who has made significant contributions in his field. Currently, he is serving as the Sr. Director, Production Engineering at Target.