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#27 – Growing as an SRE (Part 3)
Now that you’re warmed up on the truths of career progression, let’s explore how to do it well. In parts 1 and 2, we covered the 3 lesser known truths of career progression. That was just to whet your appetite to think more about your own growth journey. Let’s now get practical and explore ways for you to grow…
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#26 – Growing as an SRE (Part 2)
In part 1, we covered the first truth – that you don’t grow in your career merely through tenure. That was a simple one. Let’s explore 2 more truths that are somewhat trickier… Truth #2 โ Career progression is not a start-stop journey I like to call what a lot of people do for the next rung in…
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#24 – Growing as an SRE (Part 1)
Episode 24 [SREpath Podcast] My dear SRE friend, You – like many other SREs – want to progress into more senior roles in the future. This is known as career progression. Successful career progression in Site Reliability Engineering means constantly growing your ability to handle a wider scope of responsibility. But there are 3 lesser-known…
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#15 Growing Reliability Engineering Across 5+ Companies (with Nash Seshan)
Episode 15 [SREpath Podcast] Ash Patel talks with Nash Seshan, who has supported reliability work in over 5 organizations, including Cisco, eBay, Dropbox, Lyft, Netflix, and Wayfair. He shares his learnings from reliability work at these big brands. Nash also draws from his experience as co-founder of a Y Combinator-funded startup on effective engineering leadership.…
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#11 Rising to Staff Engineer in DevOps and SRE (with Rajesh Reddy N)
Episode 11 [SREpath Podcast] Ash Patel interviews Rajesh Reddy N who is a senior DevOps architect at CoinDCX. Rajesh shares his thoughts on effective patterns in SRE, DevOps, and platform engineering. He emphasizes the importance of understanding the systems, prioritizing issues, and avoiding buzzword-driven decisions. Rajesh also highlights challenges like alert noise and treating all…