Tarun Kumar Vale

Site Reliability Engineer @Verizon

London, GB

Configured and maintained multi-node Kubernetes clusters across dev, stage, and prod environments, enabling high availability and workload separation.• Optimized Kubernetes resource requests/limits, pod disruption budgets, and rollout strategies to maintain service availability during updates. • Implemented blue/green and canary deployment strategies using Argo Rollouts, minimizing production risk and downtime.• Managed ArgoCD setup for GitOps-based deployments to Kubernetes clusters, ensuring consistent and automated releases.• Implemented Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) and cluster autoscaling to handle peak workloads with zero downtime.• Implemented trunk-based development for faster feedback loops and reduced merge conflicts.• Enabled protected branches and enforced PR reviews with templates and pre-commit hooks to maintain code quality.• Owned platform reliability initiatives—built and maintained runbooks, improved incident response, and reduced post-deployment issues by 40%.• Created internal documentation, wikis, and onboarding playbooks to reduce ramp-up time for new joiners.• Designed observability dashboards and alerts using Prometheus, Grafana, and Dynatrace to monitor SLIs like latency and error rates.

KL University

Bachelor's degree

University of Hertfordshire

Master's degree