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Platform Engineer | Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) | Observability | AWS | OCI | Kubernetes | Python | AI-Augmented Engineering

About

Every production system tells a story. Some stories are about seamless deployments and resilient platforms. Others begin with an unexpected alert, a performance bottleneck, or a critical incident waiting to be understood. As a Platform Engineer, I'm driven by the challenge of building systems that are reliable, observable, and scalable. Over the past few years, I've worked on production platforms, improving system reliability, reducing operational bottlenecks, building observability frameworks, and delivering solutions across global environments. I enjoy taking ownership of complex engineering problems and turning them into dependable, maintainable systems. My technical interests lie at the intersection of Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), cloud infrastructure, observability, automation, and distributed systems. More recently, I've been exploring how AI can improve developer productivity and modern software engineering workflows. Beyond my day-to-day work, I enjoy writing about engineering. Through The Fifth Nine, I share practical insights on reliability engineering, cloud technologies, and lessons learned from building software. I also co-authored a research publication on deep learning, reflecting my curiosity for solving problems through both research and real-world engineering. Outside of technical writing, I'm also a published fiction author, a creative pursuit that has strengthened my storytelling and communication, skills I bring into my work as an engineer. I'm always interested in connecting with engineers who care about building reliable platforms, improving developer experience, and sharing knowledge with the community.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

ollama

openai

Work experience

Platform Engineer at ORACLE FINANCIAL SERVICES SOFTWARE LIMITED, Jun 2026 - Present · 3 mos, Bengaluru · Hybrid, Design and build platform capabilities that improve operational efficiency, reliability, and visibility across enterprise cloud environments. Contribute to platform architecture, performance optimization, and operational reporting to support globally deployed production systems. Key Contributions - Re-architected a critical data ingestion pipeline, reducing end-to-end processing latency from 90 minutes to under 5 minutes, significantly improving the freshness of operational insights for engineering teams. - Designed and developed reporting capabilities to support Service Level Objective (SLO) calculations and operational analytics, enabling teams to measure platform reliability and service performance. - Enhanced platform capabilities that improved operational workflows and strengthened the FRC Operations Console as the centralized operations platform for globally distributed teams. Technologies: Oracle APEX, Python, REST APIs, OCI, SQL, Grafana, Kubernetes

Associate Application Developer | Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at ORACLE FINANCIAL SERVICES SOFTWARE LIMITED, Aug 2022 - Jun 2026 · 3 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru · Hybrid, Worked within the Site Reliability Engineering team to build and enhance FRC Operations Console, an internal operations platform that centralized production monitoring, observability, and operational workflows for Engineering, SaaS Operations, QA, and executive stakeholders. Key Contributions - Led the end-to-end frontend development of FRC Operations Console using Oracle APEX, creating a unified operational interface that consolidated customer environments, infrastructure health, monitoring, and operational insights. - Developed backend health-check services using Python and REST APIs to provide real-time visibility into production environments. - Built monitoring capabilities for scheduled batch executions, including automated Slack and email notifications for failed or long-running processes. - Integrated infrastructure observability through Grafana, providing centralized visibility into Kubernetes workloads, Autonomous Database (ADB) health, platform services, logs, and operational metrics. - Contributed to platform design discussions, including monitoring strategy, alert thresholds, and user experience, helping improve operational visibility while reducing manual effort during production incidents. - Helped deliver a platform adopted across APAC, Europe, Middle East, UK, and US, enabling engineering and operations teams to troubleshoot production issues through a single operational interface.

Education

MTech. Software Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Advanced Certification in Software Engineering for Cloud, Blockchain and IOT, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Public links

github: https://github.com/abigasansuri-1806