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Anish Sidhan

Anish Sidhan

Site Reliability Engineering Leader
San Francisco Bay Area,CA

Summary

Seasoned SRE leader with 18+ years of delivering complex engineering projects and 8+ years scaling high-performing teams at Apple and Yahoo!. Specializes in designing scalable, reliable distributed systems, automation, and SRE functions. Expertise in cloud deployments, scalable infrastructure, highly available applications, and data-driven solutions, with a focus on fostering team growth, collaboration, customer success, quality, and timely delivery.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Sr Engineering Manager, Site Reliability

Apple
Cupertino, California
10.2015 - Current
  • Advanced from Senior Site Reliability Engineer to Engineering Manager, and ultimately to Senior Engineering Manager at Apple Maps.
  • Leads the Maps Data Platform Production Engineering team at Apple, overseeing a global team across the US, India, and Europe.
  • Manage backend infrastructure and 400+ microservices deployed on cloud and bare-metal at petabyte scale.
  • Championed the team in Apple's initiative to build Maps from the ground up, promoting innovation and collaboration to deliver a world-class product.
  • Leading Maps SRE initiatives using ML and Generative AI, delivering 50% gains in predictive maintenance, resource optimization, and developer productivity.
  • Implemented a multi-cloud deployment strategy, reducing operational costs by 30%, improving system resilience by 25%, and designing and developing large-scale cloud services.
  • Build Orchestrations to spin up applications and environments in minutes.
  • Led observability initiatives that saved millions by standardizing OTEL and migrating to a new metrics platform.
  • Led teams to implement non-functional requirements, speeding time to market and partnering on high-profile product launches, delivered on time and within budget.
  • Actively partnering in shaping the strategic direction of the AI/ML model serving platform architecture.
  • Drove 20% improvement in key metrics by streamlining incident management, problem resolution, and RCA processes, while coordinating cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder reviews.
  • Developed Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery frameworks for geographically distributed clusters.
  • Spearheaded the development of a scalable Maps API traffic management solution, resulting in a 50% optimization of resources and uninterrupted access for premium users.
  • Fostered a team with 10% higher employee satisfaction than the overall org, driving motivation, low attrition, and enhanced productivity.
  • Proactively integrated cutting-edge advancements from leading open-source projects, including CNCF and Apache, into Apple Maps, working closely with architects, platform teams, and product stakeholders.
  • Automated operational workflows with StackStorm, reducing manual interventions by 50%, improving system reliability, and freeing up engineering time for strategic projects.
  • Manage backend infrastructure and 400+ microservices deployed on cloud and bare-metal at petabyte scale.
  • Attracted top talent for the engineering department by developing a robust recruitment strategy and building a reputation as an employer of choice within the industry.

Tech Lead, Yahoo Storage Platform

Yahoo
Sunnyvale, California
08.2014 - 09.2015
  • Company Overview: Yahoo Storage Platform - Managed and targeted 10's to 100 PB on Ceph, replacing legacy storage systems and offering a unified solution for cloud computing
  • Championed Scale Ceph's object, block, and file system storage in a self-managing, self-healing platform with no single point of failure
  • Led the migration of Yahoo Flickr's & Yahoo Mail Archive backend infrastructure to a new storage platform, handling millions of updates
  • Yahoo Storage Platform - Managed and targeted 10's to 100 PB on Ceph, replacing legacy storage systems and offering a unified solution for cloud computing
  • Mentored junior developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill improvement.

Sr Systems Engineer & Engineering Manager, Yahoo Mail

Yahoo
Sunnyvale, California
11.2009 - 08.2014
  • Company Overview: Yahoo Mail - Led Yahoo Mail backend storage team, managing 100s of PBs of data and overseeing key product initiatives, including the global rollout of a new storage platform
  • Designed, coded, supported tools and acted as a 3rd-level escalation lead for production issues across 15,000 hosts with NAS storage
  • Successfully migrated 1 billion users from legacy email systems to modern infrastructure, transferring over 300+ petabytes of data
  • Delivered and optimized Splunk for Yahoo Mail at scale by collaborating with Splunk Inc
  • And internal teams to design and deploy ideal configurations for application logging and monitoring
  • Yahoo Mail - Led Yahoo Mail backend storage team, managing 100s of PBs of data and overseeing key product initiatives, including the global rollout of a new storage platform
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions for business needs.

Systems Engineer & Engineering Manager, Yahoo! Communications

Yahoo
02.2006 - 11.2009
  • Company Overview: Yahoo! Communications - Integral Part of systems engineering groups handling release management, production incident management, root cause analysis, alert metric analysis, building tools, and other operational automation for Yahoo Mail, Messenger, and Groups
  • Developed best practices for cluster setups, monitoring, and alerting, achieving up to 66% time savings and automating processes to eliminate manual intervention
  • Yahoo! Communications - Integral Part of systems engineering groups handling release management, production incident management, root cause analysis, alert metric analysis, building tools, and other operational automation for Yahoo Mail, Messenger, and Groups
  • Optimized server efficiency through virtualization techniques and capacity planning.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science and Engineering

Cochin University of Science And Technology
07.1999 - 05.2003

Engineering Leadership Professional Program -

University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
01.2024 - 07.2024

Skills

Multi Cloud Architectures

Skills

Multi Cloud Architectures, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, IaC, Disaster Recovery, CI/CD, GitOps, API Management, Config Management, Self-Healing Infrastructure, Machine Learning, RAG, Metrics, Logging, Tracing, SLO/SLI, Capacity & Performance

Work Availability

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Interests

Photography

Cricket

AI in Healthcare

Timeline

Engineering Leadership Professional Program -

University of California, Berkeley
01.2024 - 07.2024

Sr Engineering Manager, Site Reliability

Apple
10.2015 - Current

Tech Lead, Yahoo Storage Platform

Yahoo
08.2014 - 09.2015

Sr Systems Engineer & Engineering Manager, Yahoo Mail

Yahoo
11.2009 - 08.2014

Systems Engineer & Engineering Manager, Yahoo! Communications

Yahoo
02.2006 - 11.2009

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science and Engineering

Cochin University of Science And Technology
07.1999 - 05.2003

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