About

About me

• Hello and welcome! I’m Soma, a Senior Engineer at OpenAI.
• Role: Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience in Reliability Engineering
• Expertise: Observability, monitoring, incident response, and performance optimization for distributed systems
• Skills:
  • Programming Languages: Go, Rust, Python
  • Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
  • Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry
  • Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, Envoy

Early Career

I worked as a Backend Engineer and a Site Reliability Engineer in startup environments. I developed and operated distributed systems while balancing reliability and agility.

Vision

I believe reliability is a product’s core feature, but for startups, agility is just as critical. My mission is to lead reliability for the team in startup environments, so we can keep shipping fast while delivering enterprise-grade reliability.