Gaurav Shukla

About Gaurav Shukla

I am a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Expedia with 13+ years of experience ensuring business continuity, building resiliency frameworks, and driving automation across large-scale, cloud-native environments.Throughout my career at global tech companies (Expedia, Priceline, ION, Capgemini, Dell), I’ve helped design and operationalize platforms that are highly available, secure, and scalable. My expertise spans:Resiliency & Continuity: Designing DR strategies, running region-failure simulations, and building resiliency testing frameworks to minimize downtime.Automation & Observability: Reducing toil with Python/Shell/Ansible, developing CI/CD pipelines, and improving monitoring with Datadog, Prometheus, and custom dashboards.Cloud & Kubernetes: Deep experience with AWS (EKS/ECS), GCP (GKE), Istio, and service mesh, including cost optimization and scaling strategies.Security & Compliance: Implementing WAF, API gateway protections, CIS hardening, and automated compliance checks.AI & Next-Gen Reliability: Exploring Generative AI for predictive incident management, automated troubleshooting, and smarter reliability frameworks.I’m passionate about blending engineering discipline with automation and AI-driven insights to help businesses run resilient systems. Beyond my projects, I mentor engineers, share knowledge through technical blogs, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to embed SRE best practices into every stage of delivery.I thrive on solving complex challenges, simplifying operations, and enabling organizations to scale with confidence in today’s always-on world.

Experience

1. Expedia Group

   Present

Education

• Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology

  Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science

  2009 — 2013

• St. Aloysius High School

  Intermediate and High School, Science stream

  1994 — 2008