Lateef Salam
Senior SRE & Platform Engineer
Professional Background
I'm a Senior Site Reliability Engineer and Platform Engineer with extensive experience designing and operating enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure at scale. My work focuses on building resilient, automated, and observable systems that enable development teams to ship faster and more reliably. Over the past several years, I've architected and deployed production Kubernetes clusters serving millions of users, implemented comprehensive observability stacks, and built platform engineering solutions that reduce operational toil while improving developer experience. I'm passionate about infrastructure automation, chaos engineering, and sharing knowledge through technical writing and open-source contributions. My approach combines deep technical expertise with a pragmatic focus on business outcomes and team enablement.
Certifications
Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
Microsoft
Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect (AZ-305)
Microsoft
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
CNCF
Prometheus Certified Associate
Linux Foundation
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
HashiCorp
Skills & Technologies
Cloud Platforms
- Azure
- AWS
- GCP
Container Orchestration
- Kubernetes
- AKS
- EKS
- GKE
- Docker
Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
- Pulumi
- ARM Templates
- Bicep
CI/CD & GitOps
- Argo CD
- Flux
- GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps
- Jenkins
Observability
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Loki
- Tempo
- Datadog
- New Relic
Service Mesh
- Istio
- Linkerd
- Consul
Security
- Vault
- cert-manager
- OPA
- Falco
- Trivy
Languages
- Go
- Python
- Bash
- TypeScript
- YAML
- HCL
Get in Touch
Interested in discussing platform engineering, SRE best practices, or potential collaboration? Feel free to reach out!