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Aayush Sarva

I lead backend, platform and developer tooling teams.

For the last three years I ran the platform team at Atlan, which provisions, upgrades and operates 750+ customer tenants across clouds. Before that I built and led messaging teams at Plivo. I like the unglamorous work that makes other engineers faster: on-call that doesn't burn people out, onboarding that takes days instead of weeks, and releases nobody has to babysit.

Aayush Sarva
750+tenants run on the platform
<2 hto onboard a tenant was 24 h+
<15 minto mitigate incidents was 3 h+
<3 hto restore a tenant was 10 h+

Experience

Full résumé (PDF)
  1. Oct 2023 – Jun 2026

    Engineering Manager, Platform · Atlan

    Owned the internal platform for multi-cloud tenant orchestration and release management, used by 250+ people inside Atlan. Raised weekly onboarding success from 70% to nearly 100%, set up incident management and on-call from scratch, and moved it to AI-assisted response. Ran the terabyte-scale observability stack at 99.9% availability for ~15% less.

  2. Nov 2019 – Sep 2023

    Engineering Manager, Messaging · Plivo

    Led the messaging team from January 2023, after three years as an engineer on it. Decoupled observability from vendors with OpenTelemetry, and cut new-hire ramp-up from 4+ weeks to under 2.

    Earlier at Plivo: Software Engineer II and III. Up to 10× better p99 latency, ~6% lower cloud spend, and dynamic SMS routing that lifted margins by 13%.

  3. Jun 2016 – Oct 2019

    Senior Software Engineer, Collect · Atlan

    Owned the data export service and cut export time from 5+ hours to under one. Built sub-second search and analytics on Elasticsearch.

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