Ali Pardhan
Site Reliability Engineer II at Best Buy
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAli Pardhan is a Site Reliability Engineer with eight years of multidisciplinary experience spanning SRE, backend software, machine learning, and security across retail, finance, payments, and bioinformatics. He has driven reliability and observability at scale—owning SRE for Prime Day at Amazon, rebuilding end-to-end monitoring and async event-driven APIs at VoPay to survive 100x traffic spikes, and cutting log costs and retention trade-offs at Best Buy. Technically fluent in Java, Python, Node.js, Kubernetes, AWS, Datadog, MySQL and performance tuning, he combines platform engineering with hands-on ML and security remediation experience. Notably, he has a track record of practical cost optimizations (e.g., replacing Datadog Serverless and pruning logs) and shipping ML pipelines that trade cloud cost for maintainability. Based in Vancouver, he brings a pragmatic, full-stack reliability mindset informed by research in computational ecology and prior security-focused anomaly detection work.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Cyber Security and ML-Ops, Cyber Security and ML-Ops at CourseraComputer Science, Computer Science at Langara CollegeBachelor's degree, Cognitive Science, Bachelor's degree, Cognitive Science at Simon Fraser University
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Github Skills (190)
anomaly-detection10
python10
gcp10
security10
deep-learning10
malware10
gpu10
foundation-models10
serverless10
cybersecurity10
pandas10
denial-of-service10
oscillator10
ids10
intrusion-detection10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alik604/Notebooks
Oct 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:111 commits, 107 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
alik604/alik604
Jul 2020 - Apr 2026
Contributions:67 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 9 months
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