Sven Laanela
Site Reliability Engineering Manager, Google Cloud Storage
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolSven Laanela is a Site Reliability Engineering leader with 13 years of engineering experience and 12+ years in management, currently leading reliability strategy for Google Cloud Storage from Sydney. He specializes in scaling high-performing SRE teams, balancing long-term strategic objectives with day-to-day operational excellence for one of the world’s largest storage systems. Previously he grew and structured Atlassian engineering organizations—scaling teams from 10 to 25 engineers and supporting products with ~100M ARR—while embedding sustainable development practices. His background as a Java engineer and lecturer gives him deep systems-level understanding, from JVM internals to distributed storage reliability. He is known for translating competing stakeholder requirements into pragmatic roadmaps and for building transparent engineering processes that improve delivery predictability. Outside of product delivery, he has experience smoothing acquisitions and fostering developer productivity through tooling and process improvements.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology at Tallinna TehnikaülikoolTallinna 21. kool
English, Estonian, Russian, Finnish, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
javac10
java-bytecode9
testing8
java8
maven-project6
xml-configuration5
xml5
maven4
maven-plugin4
configuration-file4
fundamentals2
gradle1
memory-management1
groovy1
gradle-plugin1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
svenlaanela/slate-config
Sep 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
JavaFundamentalsZT/jf-hw-javassist
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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