Ali Irshad
Cloud-Native Site Reliability Engineer | Kubernetes | Platform Engineering | Devops | Observability
- Role
- Site Reliability Engineer 2 at Akamai Technologies
- Location
- Warangal, TG, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ali Irshad
Irshad is a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE II) specializing in cloud-native infrastructure, observability, and platform reliability engineering at Akamai.He brings over four years of experience operating and scaling production-grade Kubernetes environments supporting large-scale data platforms. He has managed distributed systems handling over 1Bil+ daily data events, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.Irshad has architected and implemented real-time infrastructure visibility pipelines, significantly improving resource monitoring and operational decision-making across multi-site environments.His technical expertise includes Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, distributed storage systems (MinIO, Rook-Ceph), CI/CD automation, and infrastructure troubleshooting at scale.He has worked extensively with ML infrastructure platforms such as Kubeflow, enabling reliable and scalable data science workloads in production.Irshad plays an active role in incident response, deep root cause analysis (RCA), and reliability automation to eliminate recurring operational risks.He continuously enhances system resilience by implementing security best practices, performance tuning, and infrastructure optimization strategies. With strong systems thinking and hands-on operational leadership, he bridges the gap between platform engineering and reliability architecture.Irshad is driven by building scalable, secure, and highly available cloud-native systems that support mission-critical business workloads globally.Certified in Kubernetes (CKA, CKS) and a DevOps postgraduate from Carnegie Mellon University.
Experience
Site Reliability Engineer 2
Oct 2025 — Present
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
Postgraduate Degree, DEVOPS
Kakatiya Institute of Technology & Science, Yerragattu Hillocks, Bheemaram, Hasanparthy, Warangal
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechanical Engineering
2018 — 2022
SR EDU CENTRE
+2,MPC
2016 — 2018
Scholars high school
Board of secondary education
2011 — 2016
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