Hello DEV! SRE here..👋

Hello DEV 👋 I'm a Staff Site Reliability Engineer based in Canada, specializing in making large-scale payment infrastructure reliable and resilient. My focus lies in areas such as distributed systems, reliability and resilience, high availability, failure recovery, observability, transactional integrity, idempotency, incident response, and more.

My journey in this field was not an obvious one. I began by working on infrastructure for a provincial energy regulator, before transitioning into enterprise systems. Through these experiences, I discovered that some of the most intriguing engineering challenges are not about making systems work, but rather ensuring they continue functioning despite external inconsistencies.

In this space, I plan to share my learnings, experiments, and occasional missteps. Expect a blend of topics like distributed systems architecture, concurrency, state management, failure modes, idempotency, messaging, and the trade-offs that often go unnoticed in architecture diagrams. I'll also delve into SRE and observability, covering incident response, alerting, telemetry, SLOs, and the operational issues that can seem simple but become complex when you're on call.

One area that particularly excites me is the intersection of AI and production engineering. I'm curious about how agentic AI systems can function effectively when faced with network failures, worker crashes, duplicated messages, and even incorrect model outputs. I'll be documenting my experiments, decision-making processes, failures, and lessons learned in this space.

Whether you're interested in SRE, distributed systems, observability, or production AI, I invite you to join me on this journey. If you've got insights or have learned something the hard way while building or operating production systems, I'd love to hear about it. Connect with me on LinkedIn or GitHub.