Kasthur Reddy Padarthi
Senior Observability Engineer | Expert in Monitoring, ELK, Datadog,OpenTelemetry,Grafana, Prometheus,Splunk,Dynatrace and Cloud-Native Solutions | DevOps Enthusiast | Kubernetes & CI/CD Specialist
- Role
- Senior Observability Engineer Devops at State Farm
- Location
- Harrison, NJ, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kasthur Reddy Padarthi
Experienced Observability Specialist and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with over 9…
Experience
Senior Observability Engineer Devops
May 2021 — Present · Bloomington, IL, US
Architected scalable observability platforms using Datadog, Dynatrace, and ELK Stack, covering Azure-hosted microservices and containerized APIs.Built intelligent dashboards in Datadog and Splunk to track key system health metrics (latency, CPU/memory, error rates) across distributed systems.Automated observability provisioning via Terraform and integrated it with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, ArgoCD), reducing deployment errors and improving pipeline visibility.Defined enterprise-wide SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets; led tabletop simulations and refined alert thresholds for high-availability services.Migrated Kubernetes observability to OpenTelemetry + Prometheus, improving performance diagnostics and reducing overhead.Reduced monthly observability costs by 20% through dashboard audits and query optimizations in Datadog and Splunk.Championed tagging standards and metadata enrichment for telemetry data, improving alert routing and searchability.Delivered internal observability workshops, upskilling 10+ teams in instrumentation and best practices.
Education
Anna University Chennai
Bachelor of Engineering - BE
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