Cloud / DevOps Engineer · Senior · 10+ yrs

Farhan Qureshi

Principal SRE / Head of Platform Engineering

Dubai, UAE farhan.qureshi@proton.me +971 50 418 7726 linkedin.com/in/farhan-qureshi-sre github.com/farhanq

Professional summary

Platform and SRE leader with 12 years building reliable, cost-efficient cloud infrastructure at scale. Sets cloud strategy across AWS, Azure and GCP, designs multi-region Kubernetes platforms, and leads teams of 12–20 engineers. Ties reliability engineering to business outcomes — uptime, cloud P&L and developer velocity — having owned an 8-figure cloud budget, driven SLO programs to 99.99% availability, and grown engineers into senior and staff SRE roles.

99.99%

Platform availability

$2.7M

Annual cloud cost cut

Engineers led

Skills

Leadership

Platform & SRE strategyTeam building (12–20)Cloud FinOps / budget ownershipHiring & mentoringIncident command

Architecture

Multi-region & DRKubernetes at scaleZero-trust networkingEvent-driven systemsService mesh (Istio)

Platform

AWSAzureGCPTerraformKubernetesHelmArgo CDCrossplane

Reliability & security

SLOs / error budgetsPrometheusDatadogOpenTelemetryVaultCI/CD governance

Work experience

Head of Platform Engineering & SRE · Meridian Logistics Cloud

May 2019 – Present

Dubai

Lead a 20-engineer platform org running a multi-region Kubernetes platform across AWS and Azure that serves 2.5M daily users and peaks at 14,000 requests/second.
Own a $9.4M annual cloud budget; drove a FinOps program of rightsizing, savings plans and Karpenter autoscaling that cut spend 29% (~$2.7M/year) while traffic grew 60%.
Architected active-active multi-region failover with Terraform and Argo CD, reducing RTO from 45 minutes to under 4 and surviving 2 regional outages with zero customer-visible downtime.
Established a company-wide SLO + error-budget program that lifted platform availability from 99.9% to 99.99% and cut Sev-1 incidents 58% year over year.
Hired 13 engineers and grew 5 into senior/staff SRE roles; defined the golden-path internal developer platform that cut service onboarding from days to under 1 hour.

Lead DevOps / SRE Manager · Aquila Media Group

Mar 2015 – Apr 2019

Bengaluru

Led a team of 9 migrating a data-center monolith to AWS and Kubernetes, cutting infrastructure cost ~₹3.1 crore/year and enabling weekly releases.
Introduced Terraform, GitOps and centralized observability across 12 teams, reducing release incidents 64% and standardizing CI/CD on GitHub Actions and Jenkins.

DevOps / Systems Engineer · Earlier roles — Wipro, Razorpay

2013 – 2015

India

Automated Linux fleet provisioning and CI/CD for banking and payments platforms with Ansible and Jenkins; promoted twice for reliability and delivery.

Education

B.E. Information Technology

2013

University of Mumbai, Mumbai

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

Amazon Web Services · 2022

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

CNCF · 2021

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect

Google Cloud · 2021

Selected achievements

Cut cloud spend ~$2.7M/year (−29%) via a FinOps program while platform traffic grew 60%.

Raised platform availability from 99.9% to 99.99% through an SLO + error-budget program, surviving 2 regional outages with zero downtime.

Speaker, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon — "Active-active across two clouds without breaking the bank."

CNCF community mentor and advisor to 2 early-stage startups on cloud architecture and reliability.

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