Summary
Vijay Nandwani is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Amsterdam with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, and distributed systems. Currently at Booking.com, he focuses on ensuring reliability and scalability for large-scale services, having progressed internally from Software Engineer II to SRE. His background as a multiple-time open source contributor—Google Summer of Code participant and Google Code‑In grand prize winner—demonstrates long-standing commitment to community-led engineering. As a two-time co-founder who led engineering, operations and sales, he brings rare product and business context to infrastructure decisions. He combines deep Linux and systems expertise with hands-on startup grit, enabling pragmatic trade-offs between reliability, speed, and cost. Fluent in working with diverse teams, he excels at translating business needs into resilient technical systems.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Shiv Nadar University
High School, High School at Delhi Public School
English, Hindi, Sindhi