Chirag Kantharia

Chirag Kantharia

Cloud Architect · SRE · Fractional CTO

About Me

I'm a Platform, SRE, and Production Engineering leader with 25+ years of experience building and operating infrastructure at scale — from bare-metal data centres in the early 2000s to the multi-cloud, Kubernetes-native systems that power modern businesses today.

I've built and led engineering teams, owned infrastructure budgets, driven SOC 2 compliance initiatives, and delivered measurable improvements in reliability, deployment velocity, and cloud cost efficiency. I work across the full stack — cloud architecture, CI/CD, observability, incident management, security hardening, and developer productivity.

My approach is direct: understand the business constraint first, then find the simplest technical solution that holds up under real load. I've seen enough overly complex architectures fail at inconvenient times to know that clarity and operational simplicity are features, not afterthoughts.

Education

B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering 1995–1999
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay)

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