Karan Mehta
Senior DevOps EngineerEmail:karan.mehta@proton.me
Phone:+91 88990 12345
Location:Remote (India)
LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/karanmehta-sre
GitHub:github.com/karanm
Professional Summary
SRE with 6 yrs at hyperscale. Reduced global incident MTTR from 41m to 8m. FinOps evangelist; saved $780k/yr through platform optimization. Known for clear communication, ownership, and shipping measurable outcomes. Combines strong consulting fundamentals with cross-functional collaboration and a bias for execution.Experience
Sep 2022Present
Senior DevOps Engineer
Netflix · Remote
• Migrated 220 services to EKS with 99.99% uptime SLO for 18 months straight• Cut deploy lead-time from 2h to 9m via GitOps + ArgoCD
• Saved $780k/yr through FinOps automation (Spot + Savings Plans + right-sizing)
• Built financial and operational models informing executive decisions
• Facilitated workshops with 43 stakeholders
Feb 2020Aug 2022
Cloud Engineer
PhonePe · Bengaluru, India
• Owned incident response for payments infra during IPL scale spikes (12x normal traffic)• Rolled out service mesh (Istio) across 340 microservices
• Led workstreams delivering $5M client value at PhonePe
• Built financial and operational models informing executive decisions
• Facilitated workshops with 34 stakeholders
Skills
Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Istio, Linux, Bash, Python, GoProjects
finops-exporter
Go, Prometheus
slo-dashboard
React, Grafana API
Diligence Workbook (Netflix)
Problem Structuring, Excel, PowerPoint, Stakeholder Management
• Documented learnings reused by peer teams
• Recognized in team/org review for execution quality
Education
B.E, Information Science
PES University
Bengaluru, India
CGPA 8.9 · President of PES Open Source ClubCertifications
CKA
CKAD
AWS SA Professional
HashiCorp Terraform Associate