I'm Gaurav Tapadkar — a senior technology leader with a career built at the intersection of Site Reliability Engineering, enterprise observability, DevOps transformation, and large-scale programme delivery. I have worked across global investment banks, industrial conglomerates, enterprise technology companies, and media organisations — in the USA, Singapore, India, and Mexico — in hands-on engineering and leadership roles.
Most recently at ABB, I owned the end-to-end global observability function as Service Owner — operating as a manager of managers, directing line managers who each led their own technical teams across multiple regions, governing a diverse portfolio of observability vendor platforms (including Dynatrace, Checkmk, Moogsoft AIOps, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, SolarWinds, and ThousandEyes), and steering a complex transformation from a fully outsourced model to an in-house build-and-run operation. At Standard Chartered Bank, I progressed from Head SRE & Chapter Lead (India) to Lead Enterprise Monitoring & Senior IT Project Manager (Singapore), delivering both SRE/DevOps maturity programmes and a bank-wide cost-optimisation initiative covering thousands of servers and tens of thousands of endpoints. Earlier roles at JP Morgan Chase and Deutsche Bank deepened my expertise in SLI/SLO frameworks, Enterprise Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) tools, and highly regulated environment delivery. Through TCS, I contributed to programmes at General Electric and CNBC / NBC Universal.
I combine technical depth with executive fluency — equally comfortable in architecture discussions, vendor negotiations, and C-suite reporting. I actively use AI-assisted tooling across observability, automation, and engineering workflows, and I help organisations apply these practically without the hype.
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Enterprise-scale delivery
Led technology programmes at Tier-1 banks and global industrials where reliability, compliance, and velocity are all non-negotiable.
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SRE & Observability practitioner
Hands-on with Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, OpenTelemetry, Moogsoft AIOps, and full SLI/SLO/error budget frameworks.
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AI tools in daily practice
Uses AI-powered tooling for incident prediction, observability automation, AIOps, and engineering workflows — applied pragmatically, not theoretically.
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Truly global experience
Almost a decade in the USA, plus Singapore, India, and Mexico — managing cross-border teams, vendors, and senior stakeholders across time zones.
Leadership
Global team leadership, manager of managers, cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder management, executive reporting, change management, mentoring & coaching
Delivery & Governance
Programme & project management, delivery management, vendor & contract management, budget ownership, risk / RAID, Agile (Scrum / Kanban), Waterfall
AI & AIOps
AIOps (Moogsoft), AI-assisted observability, incident prediction, capacity planning automation, deployment validation, AI-driven operational tooling
SRE & Observability
Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, OpenTelemetry, Checkmk, ELK, ThousandEyes, ITRS Geneos · SLI / SLO / Error Budgets, Chaos Engineering
DevOps & Platform
CI/CD, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, OpenShift, GitOps, DORA Metrics, ServiceNow
Cloud
AWS · Microsoft Azure · Containers: Kubernetes / OpenShift
Development
Python, Java, Scripting (Bash / Shell), REST APIs, SQL & NoSQL Databases, JSON / YAML, Git
