I’m a Site Reliability Engineer at TikTok with 9+ years of experience building and operating software, cloud infrastructure and distributed systems at scale. At TikTok, I work on maintaining a 200K node Message Queue infrastructure hosted on Kubernetes. Before TikTok, I spent 3+ years at Google working as a Cloud Architect, designing GCP architectures and infrastructure for enterprise customers. Earlier in my career, I worked extensively with Kubernetes, Kafka, Terraform and distributed systems. My experience has taken me from building software and developer platforms to designing cloud architectures and operating infrastructure at planet scale. I’m happy to share practical, real-world perspectives on SRE, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Kafka, distributed systems, system design, and engineering careers.