Abhisek Purwar

About Abhisek Purwar

Hands-on Senior Staff Engineering Manager with 17+ years of experience building and operating large-scale, multi-region distributed systems, including 4+ years leading global SRE and platform teams. My work sits at the intersection of SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Cloud Architecture—focused on building systems that are reliable, scalable, and efficient.At Qualcomm, I lead global SRE and Platform Engineering for Industrial & Embedded IoT cloud platforms, working with teams across the US and India. We run 24×7 SRE operations using a follow-the-sun model, and I’m responsible for keeping production systems reliable while continuously improving how we operate them.I’m hands-on with production systems, driving design reviews, ensuring production readiness, and making sure systems can scale without compromising reliability. A big part of my role is improving how teams handle real-world failures and operate systems under pressure.Some of the areas I focus on:• Driving SLO-based reliability and strong production ownership • Leading capacity planning and performance engineering • Reducing MTTR through automation, observability, and runbooks • Designing resilient, scalable systems • Applying well-architected principles across reliability, security, cost, performance, and operations Previously at Google Cloud, where I partnered with engineering teams to design and modernize distributed systems at scale.Over the years, I’ve worked across AWS, GCP, and Azure, and have been part of large-scale digital transformation and multi-cloud initiatives. I also spent time at Google Cloud, partnering with engineering teams to design and modernize distributed systems at scale.I enjoy solving hard reliability problems, building strong teams, and making systems behave predictably at scale.SkillsCloud & Platform: Kubernetes, Istio, AWS, GCP, AzureDistributed Systems: Microservices, Event-driven systems, Real-time data pipelinesSRE & Reliability: SLIs/SLOs, Error Budgets, Incident Management, Toil ReductionObservability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Jaeger, OpenSearchCI/CD & Automation: Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform, Azure DevOpsData & Messaging: Kafka, Postgres, Cassandra, ClickhouseLanguages: Java, Python, JavaScript, Node.js, ReactJS, PythonSecurity: OWASP ZAP, Veracode, Wiz

Experience

1. Senior Staff Engineer Manager - Sre, Iot Cloud Services

   Qualcomm

   Sep 2024 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Led and managed a team of SREs and Platform Engineering at Qualcomm, driving a culture of collaboration and innovation for Industrial & Embedded IOT Cloud services.• Set strategic direction aligning with business goals to ensure reliability and scalability, while providing coaching and growth opportunities for team members.• Oversaw Tier-1 monitoring/alerts, incident response, and post-mortem analysis to ensure timely resolution and learning from incidents.• Identify single points of failure and other high-risk architecture issues; propose and implement more resilient resolutions, develop and implement strategies for improving system reliability, security, including automation, performance tuning, capacity planning and cost.• Ensure robust disaster recovery and business continuity plans are in place and regularly tested.

Education

• C.V. Raman college of engineering

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2004 — 2008

Skills

• Eclipse
• React.js
• Devops
• Spring
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Pl/Sql
• Ant
• Continuous Integration
• Unix
• Cloud Foundry
• Mvc
• Scss
• Agile Methodologies
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Ibm Bluemix
• Spring Framework
• Web Services
• Maven
• Restful Webservices
• Core Java
• Sdlc
• Xml
• Rest
• Javascript
• Intellij Idea
• Jenkins
• Java
• Requirements Analysis
• Microservices
• Git
• Less
• Soap
• Jsf
• Jsp