Akhil Balu Chandrasekhar

Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Cinder Care | ex-Salesforce

Cinder Care

Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

10+ years experience

IIT Bombay

English, Hindi, Kannada

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I work on cloud infrastructure at Cinder Care in Bengaluru. Wrote the Go service that now handles 42 million requests a day. Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 34% in two quarters. I coach a junior basketball team.

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Kubernetesincident responseTerraformAWSGoPrometheus

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Looking for an operations co-founder for data labelling for dental practices

The idea: Looking for an operations co-founder for data labelling for dental practices
Stage: Customer interviews
I bring: 4 years in cloud infrastructure
Looking for: Product-minded engineer
Commitment: Full-time after funding
Location: Bengaluru or remote

I bring 10 years of cloud infrastructure (currently Cinder Care). Ideally you've sold to enterprises. Incorporated, self-funded so far.

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Experience

Staff Site Reliability Engineer
May 2024 - Present
Cinder Care · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 21 a week to 4.
- Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 45% in two quarters.
Engineering Manager
Nov 2022 - Mar 2024
Salesforce · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 540ms to 57ms.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Jul 2020 - Nov 2022
Mastercard · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 20 a week to 2.
- Shipped 24 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
Site Reliability Engineer
Jul 2018 - Jul 2020
Accenture · 2 yr · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 30 a week to 1.
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 34 minutes to under 5.
Site Reliability Engineer
Oct 2016 - Jul 2018
Capgemini · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Moved 63% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 18 minutes to under 6.

Projects

Side project: a recipe search engine

2025

Built with incident response and Kubernetes. 120 people used it last year.

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Education

IIT Bombay
B.Tech, Computer Science
2012 - 2016

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