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SENIOR SRE · VISA · PLATFORM

Site Reliability Engineer Building for What's Next.

I build secure, observable cloud platforms and AI-assisted delivery workflows that help teams ship faster without sacrificing reliability, governance, or cost control.

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Vaibhav Karad at DevFest Mumbai
My journeyFrom Building Systems
to Building for Scale
Wipro2021 – 2025Building cloud foundations
Mastercard2025 – 2026Scaling reliability at scale
Visa2026 – PresentDriving global impact
5+Years of Experience
Engineering philosophy

Reliability is an environment, not a feature.

The safest systems make good decisions repeatable: observable by default, automated where it matters, and designed for the engineers who operate them.

Reliability is designed.

Operational readiness belongs in architecture, release paths, and everyday engineering decisions.

Automation reduces friction.

Good automation gives teams a safe path to production without hiding the decisions behind it.

Observability enables action.

Metrics, traces, and SLOs should help engineers choose the next step, not just report the last one.

Safe paths scale.

Platforms earn trust when the reliable, secure choice is also the easiest choice to make.

Beyond the stack I translate complexity into crisp, data-backed decisions that move engineering & business together.

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Experience

A career in
production.

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Visa · Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

September 2026 – Present · Production reliability across critical payment services

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Mastercard · Site Reliability Engineer II

December 2025 – August 2026 · Platform operations and strategic reliability initiatives

02

Wipro · DevOps Engineer

September 2024 – December 2025 · Release automation and zero-downtime delivery

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Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

Visa Inc.

September 2026 - Present

  • • Manage production reliability across multi-region GKE environments supporting critical payment services.
  • • Lead production operations, deployments, incident response, and ITSM workflows for business-critical services.
  • • Troubleshoot Java microservices and Kubernetes issues using Grafana, Loki, and Google Cloud Observability.
  • • Coordinate secure application releases through Argo CD and GitOps practices.
Achievements:
  • Strengthened reliability and reduced deployment risk for critical services.

Site Reliability Engineer II

MasterCard

December 2025 - August 2026

  • • Drive business operations and strategic initiatives across teams.
  • • Optimize processes and improve operational efficiency.
  • • Collaborate with stakeholders to align business goals with technical solutions.
Achievements:
  • Leveraging cloud and DevOps expertise to enhance operational excellence.

DevOps Engineer

Wipro (Consumer Service)

September 2024 - December 2025

  • • Worked closely with developers to streamline CI pipeline for release automation and quality assurance.
  • • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to enhance system reliability.
Achievements:
  • Enabled zero-downtime releases for critical banking apps.

Cloud Engineer II

Wipro (Ecommerce )

September 2023 - July 2024

  • • Managed cloud migration projects and optimized resource usage.
  • • Developed monitoring solutions for high-availability systems.
  • • Automated security compliance checks in CI/CD workflows.
Achievements:
  • Successfully migrated 12+ applications to cloud platforms.
  • Improved system uptime to 99.99%.

Cloud Engineer I

Wipro

January 2022 - August 2023

  • • Designed and deployed scalable cloud infrastructure solutions.
  • • Automated provisioning and configuration management.
  • • Supported DevSecOps initiatives for secure cloud operations.
Achievements:
  • Built reusable infrastructure modules for rapid deployment.
  • Enhanced security posture with automated vulnerability scans.

Student (Intern)

Wipro

November 2021 - January 2022

  • • Completed intensive training in cloud technologies and DevOps practices.
  • • Worked on hands-on labs and real-world projects.
  • • Developed foundational skills in automation and scripting.
Achievements:
  • Graduated top of the cohort in DevOps specialization.
  • Delivered a capstone project automating cloud resource provisioning.
Skills

The reliability stack

Observability

Metrics, logs, traces and diagnostics for systems that explain themselves.

GrafanaPrometheusDynatraceSplunk
CI/CD and IaC

Repeatable delivery paths with policy, automation and safe change controls.

JenkinsArgo CDTerraformGitHub Actions
Orchestration and cloud

Production platforms designed for resilience, scale and operational clarity.

KubernetesGKEGoogle CloudPython
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Foundation

Built for the long run.

The systems mindset started with strong fundamentals in computer science, cloud platforms, and secure delivery.

Completed

Master of Technology

Cloud Computing & Infrastructure

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Grade: A

Exploring the intersection of core CS, cloud platforms, and emerging tech. Passionate about multi-cloud architectures, scalable automation, and SRE-driven resilience with a focus on secure, zero-downtime deployments.

Focus Areas

Cloud Computing Network Security DevOps SRE Practices Multi-Cloud Architecture Infrastructure Automation
Completed

Bachelor of Computer Application

Computer Science

Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune

Grade: A

Built strong foundations in algorithms, networking, operating systems and secure software delivery fueling a platform & DevOps career path.

Core Competencies

Software Engineering SDLC & Testing C, Java, Python Data Structures & Algorithms Database Management Operating Systems Computer Networks Web Technologies
Blog

Notes from
on-call and
interviews.

Postmortems, platform lessons and career write-ups.

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Projects

Infrastructure I have shipped

Jenkins AI Optimizer

Open source AI diagnostics & failure analysis toolkit for Jenkins. Accelerates multi-instance CI/CD debugging and pipeline triage.

AIMCPCI/CDJenkins
Completed Nov 2025 pip install jenkins-ai-optimizer
Completed

eBPF System Tracing Toolkit

Developing a custom set of OS-level monitoring tools using eBPF for high-performance, low-overhead system tracing.

eBPFLinuxObservability
Completed Sep 2025
Completed
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Expertise & Certifications

Solutions-focused SRE and DevOps professional delivering secure, automated infrastructure and CI/CD workflows that improve reliability and developer productivity.

Core Expertise

Process Excellence

Streamlining procedures to reduce cycle time, defects, and operational cost.

Performance Optimization

Identifying bottlenecks and tuning systems for faster, more efficient operations.

Technical Documentation

Clear runbooks, architecture notes, and API guides that reduce onboarding time and errors.

Cloud Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure as code, repeatable pipelines and policy-as-code for secure, scalable systems.

Professional Certifications

Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Hands-on expertise delivering CI/CD, SRE practices and production reliability on GCP.

Google Cloud

Professional Cloud Architect

Validated ability to design and operate scalable, secure cloud architectures.

Google Cloud

DevSecOps with GCP

Focused on secure pipeline design, policy-as-code and threat-mitigation in CI/CD.

Coursera

GitHub Foundations

Comprehensive training on version control, collaboration, and workflow automation.

GitHub
Open source signal

GitHub Analytics

A live view of the systems, experiments, and engineering habits behind the work.

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Streak
GitHub contribution streak
Contact

Let's talk
reliability.

karadhub@gmail.com · LinkedIn · GitHub

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