Apoorv Purohit

About Apoorv Purohit

I am a Site Reliability Engineer at Google, focused on the reliability and operational excellence of Cloud Spanner. With a strong background on database engineering, I specialize in ensuring large-scale distributed systems remain available, performant and efficient.Previously, I was a Senior SRE at LinkedIn, where I engineered automation for MySQL reliability and managed complex database use-cases. My core technical expertise lies in MySQL, Vitess, Python automation and distributed systems.Beyond the engineering work, I am passionate about guiding the next generation of tech talent. I actively mentor students and early career professionals through 1:1 sessions, helping them navigate their careers, understand database internals and prepare for roles in top-tier tech companies. Want to chat? You can book a 1:1 session through my profile. Let\'s talk.

Experience

1. Site Reliability Engineer

   Google

   Dec 2024 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Ensuring high availability and reliability for Cloud Spanner, Google\'s fully managed, mission-critical, relational database service- Partnering with core engineering and product teams to drive reliability improvements, improve observability, and reduce operational toil across the fleet- Optimizing service uptime and incident response velocity by implementing standard SRE principles and automation within a large-scale distributed environment.

Education

• Global Institute of Technology,Jaipur

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science

  2011 — 2015

• Texas McCombs School of Business

  Post Graduate Program, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Skills

• C#
• C
• Programming
• Java
• Software Development
• Python
• Data Structures
• Css
• Oracle Asm
• Javascript
• Php
• Databases
• Mysql
• Core Java
• Html
• Html5
• Sql
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Jsp
• Algorithms
• Web Development
• Data Guard
• C++
• Rman
• Oracle Database