Summary
Praveen Kulkarni is a Staff Software Engineer in Site Reliability Engineering at Google with 11 years of industry experience building and operating large-scale, user-facing systems. He progressed through SRE roles at Google from Traffic Sessions engineer to Senior and now Staff SRE, bringing deep expertise in reliability, incident response, and scalable infrastructure. An IIT Delhi computer science undergraduate, he also contributed to research during internships at MPI-SWS and Microsoft, reflecting a strong grounding in formal methods and systems research. Praveen has a track record of mentoring and teaching (head TA for a core data structures course), which complements his hands-on production experience. Based in the UK, he combines academic rigor with practical SRE leadership and a history of internships across finance and startup environments that sharpened his performance and low-latency engineering skills.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)