Dev Awasthi

Overview

Currently at Northwind Learning, where I work on cloud infrastructure. Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 36 a week to 4. Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 416ms to 116ms. Before that: Tech Mahindra and Paytm. Most at home with AWS and Linux.

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Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Jan 2023 - Present
   Northwind Learning · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Led or co-led 18 investments, 6 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Previously an operator for 9 years before investing.
   • Backed 41 founders at pre-seed and seed.
2. Senior Site Reliability Engineer

   Apr 2019 - Nov 2022
   Tech Mahindra · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 31 a week to 1.
   • Grew the infrastructure team from 3 to 22 engineers.
3. Senior Site Reliability Engineer

   Aug 2017 - Apr 2019
   Paytm · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Mentored 15 engineers through their first promotion.
4. Senior Site Reliability Engineer

   Aug 2015 - Aug 2017
   Tech Mahindra · 2 yr · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 20 minutes to under 2.
   • Grew the infrastructure team from 3 to 33 engineers.
5. Site Reliability Engineer

   Apr 2014 - Aug 2015
   Axis Bank · 1 yr 4 mo · Contract · Bengaluru, India
   • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 446ms to 44ms.

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Education

1. Christ University

   BBA, Computer Engineering
   2006 - 2010