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title: "Gaurav Ochani - SRE Director - AI & ML Platform in Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Gaurav Ochani, Trusted SRE | Expert in Kubernetes | Chaos Engineering | Cloud Automation - GCP, Azure | Azure DevOps | Incident Management | SLO/SLI Champion based in Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area. AI stack includes hugging face, langchain, and langgraph."
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# Gaurav Ochani on Tal

## Headline

Trusted SRE \| Expert in Kubernetes \| Chaos Engineering \| Cloud Automation \- GCP, Azure \| Azure DevOps \| Incident Management \| SLO/SLI Champion

## About

Seasoned and results\-driven Site Reliability Engineering \(SRE\) Lead with 15 years of experience enhancing system reliability, scalability, and performance across global tech environments\. Proven expertise in implementing SLI/SLO dashboards, chaos engineering practices, and automation frameworks\. My technical stack includes Kubernetes, GCP, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Helm, PowerBI, Grafana, Python, Bash, and PowerShell\. I thrive in environments that value proactive monitoring, root cause analysis, and service reliability as a top priority\. Let’s connect if you’re passionate about building resilient, self\-healing systems and scalable DevOps ecosystems\.

## Location

Pune/Pimpri\-Chinchwad Area

## AI stack

hugging face

langchain

langgraph

notebooklm

openclaw

## Work experience

SRE Director \- AI & ML Platform at UBS, Dec 2025 \- Present · 8 mos, • Leading the SRE roadmap, establish SLOs and rollout plan for UBS Enterprise AI Suite \- One stop solution for AI model registry, AI as a Service and Data Product framework • Integrated the UBS standardized LGTM observability stack to provide end\-to\-end visibility and streamlined alerting across AI model operations, and Data Engineering\. The LGTM stack includes Loki, Grafana, Tempo, and Mimir \- provides a unified, open\-source observability solution that integrates metrics, logs, and traces for end\-to\-end system monitoring\. • Standardized deployment and operational practices in Gitlab, reducing MTTR and improving platform stability for AI workloads\. • Driving the Postmortems for high severity incidents and deriving the plan of action for early detection and future preventions of such incidents • Partnered with product and engineering leaders to align reliability goals with business priorities and drive operational excellence for Enterprise AI Suite\.

Site Reliability Engineer at SLB, Apr 2023 \- Jan 2026 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, • Leading and mentoring cross\-functional SRE teams across 70\+ products\. • Conducting SLI/SLO dashboard reviews to ensure service reliability and performance targets\. • Driving chaos engineering practices to proactively uncover failure points\. • Designing and executing automated workflows via Rundeck and Azure DevOps\. • Managing high\-severity incidents and RCA/postmortem processes using PagerDuty\. • Orchestrating GCP infrastructure optimizations, resulting in 25% cost savings and 30% reliability improvement\. • Reduced deployment time by 50% and downtime by 40% through automation initiatives\.

Senior Automation Engineer at SLB, Feb 2021 \- Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Responsible for design and architect software reliability phase

Automation Engineer at SLB, Jul 2019 \- Feb 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos, Pune Area, India, Experience overall \- 1\. UI automation using – Protractor, Selenium webdriver 2\. API automation using– SOAPUI, ReadyAPI, RESTAssured, POSTMAN 3\. Scripting languages – JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, PYTHON, GROOVY, BASH, BATCH 4\. DevOps technologies – GCP, Docker, Kubernetes 5\. Security testing using combinations of – BURPSUITE, OWASP ZAP, FIDDLER 6\. Created UI and API Automation framework design from scratch for DELFI Portal 7\. Created UI and API Automation framework design from scratch for Project Tracker and Service Delivery 8\. Provided CICD pipeline Solution in VSTS for test execution 9\. Identified POSTMAN API list with no Swagger definitions for DELFI portal UI backend 10\. Performance metrics using JMeter 11\. Leading automation and DevOps teams

Member Of Technical Staff at TIBCO Software Inc\., Feb 2017 \- Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Pune Area, India, • Developed custom bash scripts and streamlined CICD pipelines using TeamCity\. • Led automation and integrations to reduce manual intervention in operations\. • Knowledge on Tibco Cloud Integration Platform, Flogo Enterprise • Devops tools and technologies worked on: Docker, Vagrant, TeamCity, bash scripting

QA Engineer at Cybage Software, Apr 2015 \- Feb 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos, • Key roles in Software Testing \(Automation, Functional, Application and Database Testing\), Client Coordination, Offshore and Onsite Coordination, Defect Management, Test Case Design/Test Scripting, Review and Execution\. • Worked on Selenium webdriver, UFT, CircleCI, heroku • Good Knowledge on Software development life cycle \(SDLC\) and Software Testing Life Cycle \(STLC\) and Testing Methodologies\. • Involved in Functional Walkthrough with developers and team members, coordinating with Team Members, Mentoring New Team Members, Providing Daily Status to Team Lead and Onsite Coordinators\. • Gained good exposure in writing Test Cases, Execution of Test Cases, Defect tracking\. • Participated in Test Case and Defect Reviews\. • Experience in Test Management Tool – Clear Quest\(CQ\), Jira\. • Knowledge in SQL\. • Good Communication and Interpersonal Skills\. • Proficient in functional testing and regression testing of the Web based applications using Selenium web driver\. • Preparing test scenarios, preparing and executing Test Cases based on Business requirements and Technical Specifications\. • Well versed with all stages of the Bug Life Cycle\. • Test documentation and keeping track of test results, defects and co\-ordinate with onsite and offshore team members\. • Ability to work independently on multiple tasks\.

Software engineer at Syntel, Oct 2012 \- Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, • Python Developer involved in building backend automation tools and utilities\.

## Education

B\.Tech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Noida Institute of Engineering & Technology

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