Felix Johnson

SRE at Talabat | Delivery Hero MENA

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

About

I have 10+ years of experience in the Information Technology Industry working with Major Corporations, having an insightful experience in managing the project delivery in onshore-Offshore model, working directly with clients from Sweden, France, Middle-East, APAC and US. In my present capacity, I work as a Site reliability engineer. My primary goal is enabling an agile mindset across teams by adopting best practices, empowering the team, embracing a "fail-fast" approach. As part of Continuous Improvement, building on lines of a "Minimum Viable Product" and setting up Continuous development – Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment to propel shorter lead time to market. I have a drive to explore new avenues, be it technology or practices, clubbed with my contagious energy, enthusiasm & experience to transit into a position, where I continue to provide the tactical leadership contributing to the organizations success. I understand the nuances and have handled situations in the IT- Software industry.

Experience

  • Site Reliability Engineer at talabat
    Jul 2018 - Present · 8 yrs

    From having 1 deploy every week to 100+ deploys everyday, ensuring reliability of systems with being able to scale load upto 2M RPM, providing Observability as Code and helping the org adopt SLO. Led the Migration of Infra from on-prem to cloud with AWS using the "lift and shift" approach. Continuous big bang load test setup on production with thresholds to fail-safe, giving insights to identify the bottlenecks in bandwidth, latency and working with the teams to mitigate and capacity to scale upto 2M RPM. Heavily invested in the areas of Observability - Load testing & Capacity management with K6 and automated reporting - Observability as code using Terraform - Setup of SLO and Error budget to enable teams to experiment safely - Monitoring & Alerting with Newrelic - Incident management driver - Using Python to reduce toil and automate

  • Lead Analyst at CGI
    Dec 2013 - Dec 2017 · 4 yrs 1 mo

    Responsible for analyzing the system specifications and translate system requirements to task specifications, design, coordinate and supervise the development of software systems. , Working closely with upper management and the stakeholders within and across groups.

  • Senior Software Engineer at Life Interactive
    Mar 2012 - Nov 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos

    Involvement in the software development life cycle of requirement analysis,design,development and testing, Client interactions. Specializing in ASP.NET c#, MVC4 framework, sql server 2008, jquery, javascript, AJAX, HTML, CSS

  • Software engineer at Trellisys.net
    Sep 2010 - Feb 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos

    worked as a web developer, involving in the software development life cycle of requirement analysis,design,development and testing. specializing in c#, sql, jquery, javascript.

  • Technical Support at Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.
    Jul 2008 - Oct 2009 · 1 yr 4 mos