Theo ( Thiyagarajan Anandan )

About

Mission: make reliability usable at scale

I build platform systems that help engineers ship faster with fewer incidents. My focus is not more tooling; it is reducing operational chaos through standards, automation, and clear ownership.

How I Work

  • Treat observability as a product with users, workflows, and measurable time-to-answer outcomes.
  • Start with standards (tagging, naming, ownership, metadata) before layering additional tools.
  • Replace heroics with systems: golden paths, guardrails, and self-serve platform capabilities.
  • Build teams that combine technical depth with operational accountability.
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Public Signals

  • Keynote Speaker, Datadog Summit SF (2025) Cognitive load, observability standards, and AI-enabled reliability. Watch talk on YouTube.
  • NADOG Speaker (2023, 2024) Enterprise monitoring and platform strategy through M&A complexity.
  • Datadog Customer Story Operational outcomes tied to uptime, onboarding speed, and incident response.

Leadership Timeline

Experience across high-scale platform environments

  1. Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering - Uber Freight Jan 2025 - Present (Engineering Manager II: Jun 2022 - Dec 2024)

    Led consolidation of infrastructure across acquisitions, scaling global Kubernetes, service mesh, and automation for a unified GCP platform.

  2. Head of Cloud Engineering - GoBrands (gopuff) Oct 2021 - Jun 2022

    Oversaw cloud architecture and infrastructure operations across North America, Europe, and South America with compliance-focused scaling.

  3. Engineering Manager, SRE - Chewy Feb 2019 - Oct 2021

    Grew SRE organization from 3 to 18 engineers and drove critical cloud migration programs with reliability-by-design practices.

  4. Earlier Roles - Ultimate Software, Sonian, Tata Consultancy Services 2012 - 2019

    Built deep hands-on expertise in automation, cloud migration, monitoring systems, and DevOps operating discipline.

Outside Core Delivery

I invest in team growth through mentorship, internship program design, community speaking, and internal innovation programs. Most recently, this included leading an AI hackathon focused on automated alert remediation and founding an employee resource group that supports global immigrants.

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