Platform Leadership

Theo ( Thiyagarajan Anandan )

Platform Engineering & Reliability leader building internet-scale, multi-region systems. I focus on standards-first observability, safe automation, and operating models that reduce cognitive load while improving uptime and incident response.

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What I Drive

Platform leadership focused on scale, clarity, and execution

Platform Reliability at Executive Scale

Operating models that connect SLOs, incident quality, and business risk posture across teams.

Organizational Growth and Engineering Enablement

Team topology, coaching systems, and standardization that reduce heroics and sustain delivery velocity.

Cloud and Infrastructure Transformation

M&A consolidation, Kubernetes modernization, and observability control planes built for continuity.

Outcomes

Operational metrics translated to business outcomes

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0+ engineers influenced across platform and reliability programs

0x faster operational onboarding in standardized domains

0.99% reliability benchmark sustained in public references

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OutcomePanel: Incident MTTR reduction

Operational improvement: standardized telemetry ownership and runbook-linked alerting.

Business translation: less revenue-risk exposure during peak windows and fewer executive escalations.

OutcomePanel: Faster engineering onboarding

Operational improvement: shared metadata model and reproducible platform guardrails.

Business translation: faster feature throughput with lower dependency on central platform teams.

Case Studies

Where platform strategy meets measurable reliability

Observability Tagging Standards

Tagging as Context Fabric for AI-Enabled Observability

Established telemetry standards that reduced noise and made AI-assisted investigation useful.

99.99% uptime highlight
55% faster onboarding highlight
Improved incident response coverage

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M&A Enterprise Monitoring

Monitoring Strategy During Infrastructure Consolidation

Unified platform operations through acquisition-driven cloud and tooling convergence.

Multi-region migration model
Ownership and coverage standardization
Reduced overlap and alert duplication

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Team Design Operating Model

Observability Center of Excellence Playbook

Designed a repeatable enablement system to move teams from ad-hoc dashboards to reliable workflows.

Golden-path instrumentation workflow
Reduced operational heroics
Scalable enablement model

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Writing

Latest writing for platform and engineering leadership

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Public Appearances

Executive-facing communication and external platform leadership

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