Summary
Karthik Viswanath is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale, cost-effective production systems across startups and hyperscalers. He combines deep Linux and Kubernetes expertise with advanced AWS, CI/CD and monitoring skills, and has led migrations and run 20+ bare-metal clusters and large EKS fleets without downtime. At BrowserStack he reduced MTTR by 99% and cut firefighting hours through process redesign, and at Meta he worked on host orchestration for millions of machines—now fighting fires at Atlassian. He’s also strong at mentoring engineers and lifting teams, having promoted multiple juniors into senior roles and delivered company-wide technical talks. Based in Pune, he brings a pragmatic blend of hands-on debugging under on-call pressure and systems-level design that keeps high-throughput services reliable.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras