Influence and align cross-functional teams on platform evolution. Coach engineers across all levels, raising the technical bar. Architect and evolve hypervisor integrations (libvirt, QEMU, KVM). Design scalable, automated networking systems (BGP, EVPN, OVS). Lead large-scale automation and provisioning frameworks (GitLab CI/CD, Puppet/Ansible). Champion observability and reliability practices (Grafana, Sentry, SumoLogic). Drive advanced performance tuning across CPU, memory, I/O, networking, and storage layers.