About

About me

• Hello and welcome! I am 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, Temporal

Early Career

I worked as a Software Engineer in site reliability and led several reliability projects in startup environments for enterprise customers. I developed and operated distributed systems while balancing reliability and agility.

Vision

I believe reliability is a core product feature. In startups, agility is also critical. My mission is to help teams ship fast while delivering enterprise-grade reliability.