8+ years of strong software engineering fundamentals with significant experience in cloud infrastructure or platform engineering. Proven ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives and influence architectural decisions across teams. Deep experience with AWS & GCP, Kubernetes, Gitops, Terraform (or other infrastructure-as-code frameworks), and modern observability stacks(Grafana etc). Strong understanding of distributed systems, reliability engineering, and cost optimization best practices. Track record of mentoring and leveling up engineering teams through process and tooling improvements (on-call, CI/CD, monitoring, incident management etc.). Passion for building reliable, developer-friendly platforms that improve the productivity of others. Proficiency in one or more of: Go, Python, or similar languages.