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title: "Vikrant Garg - Engineering Manager in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Vikrant Garg, Engineering Manager | SRE & Platform Engineering | AWS & GCP | Kubernetes | Cloud Infrastructure | Observability | Building Reliable Engineering Teams | Ex Swiggy based in Bengaluru."
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# Vikrant Garg on Tal

## Headline

Engineering Manager \| SRE & Platform Engineering \| AWS & GCP \| Kubernetes \| Cloud Infrastructure \| Observability \| Building Reliable Engineering Teams \| Ex Swiggy

## About

Engineering Manager specializing in Site Reliability Engineering \(SRE\), Platform Engineering, and Cloud Infrastructure with 11\+ years of experience building scalable, reliable, and cost\-efficient platforms on AWS and GCP\. I enjoy building high\-performing engineering teams and solving large\-scale infrastructure challenges\. My experience spans Kubernetes, observability, Infrastructure as Code, cloud cost optimization, and production reliability, with a strong focus on enabling engineering teams through reliable, scalable, and self\-service platforms\. Passionate about engineering leadership, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, observability, Kubernetes, and operational excellence\. Always open to connecting with engineers and leaders working on large\-scale distributed systems\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## Work experience

Engineering Manager at QuillBot, Dec 2023 \- Present · 2 yrs 9 mos, Remote

Staff SRE Engineer at QuillBot, Dec 2023 \- Mar 2024 · 4 mos, Bengaluru

Software Development Engineer III at Swiggy, Oct 2021 \- Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bangalore Urban, Architected and led a team of 3 engineers to deliver a highly available monitoring platform supporting 70M active series and 200K samples/sec\. Migrated from self\-hosted Cortex to Amazon Managed Prometheus, enabling reliable observability for 800\+ microservices during Swiggy's New Year's Eve peak traffic with zero monitoring lag\. Led the migration from self\-hosted Kops to Amazon EKS, improving platform reliability while significantly reducing operational overhead\. Led the adoption of GitOps for Kubernetes deployments, eliminating manual cluster changes and standardizing infrastructure delivery\. Led infrastructure optimization initiatives including Graviton adoption, zone\-aware routing, and Spot Instances, reducing overall infrastructure cost per order \(CPO\)\.

Software Development Engineer II at Swiggy, Jul 2019 \- Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Architected and led the migration from Sumo Logic to Grafana Loki, building a centralized logging platform processing 60TB/day while reducing annual operating costs from $800K to $200K\.

DevOps Engineer at Y Media Labs, Jul 2018 \- Jul 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru Area, India, Built reusable Infrastructure\-as\-Code platforms using Terraform, provisioning production\-grade AWS environments including networking, compute, databases, IAM, and monitoring across multiple engineering teams\. Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines that automated application deployments, standardized release processes, and improved software delivery reliability\. Implemented immutable infrastructure and operational automation using Packer, automated rollbacks, and security patching, reducing configuration drift and improving infrastructure consistency\.

Associate Technology L2 at Publicis Sapient, Jan 2017 \- Jul 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Developed a reusable Jenkins Pipeline\-as\-Code framework using Groovy DSL, standardizing CI/CD workflows with automated testing, deployments, and rollback capabilities across multiple applications\. Provisioned and automated AWS infrastructure across development, staging, and production environments, enabling reliable and repeatable infrastructure deployments\. Implemented centralized monitoring and logging using Amazon CloudWatch, improving application visibility, operational monitoring, and incident response\.

Associate Technology L1 at Publicis Sapient, Aug 2015 \- Dec 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos, Gurgaon, India

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Computer Science, The LNMIIT

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering, The LNM Institute of Information Technology

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