Lateef Salam

Senior SRE & Platform Engineer

AZ-104AZ-305CKATerraform

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!