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Aayush Sarva

I lead backend and platform engineering teams.

I started my career at SocialCops (opens in a new tab), building a data product that was used to track government-subsidised cooking gas for 50M women in rural India (opens in a new tab). Since then I've gone from engineer to manager on Plivo's (opens in a new tab) messaging platform, and most recently led Atlan's (opens in a new tab) globally-remote Platform Engineering team, helping unlock its first $1M+/year deal. I measure engineering by the business outcomes it moves, not adoption charts. I enjoy multiplying impact by coaching teams to make taste and agency their edge in an AI-native world.

Aayush Sarva
800+tenants across AWS, GCP & Azure 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)

Ten years in backend, from owning one service to running the platform 800+ customer tenants depend on.

  1. Oct 2023 – Jun 2026

    Engineering Manager, Platform · Atlan

    Led a platform team of 10 engineers. We owned three things: multi-cloud tenant orchestration and release management for 800+ tenants and 200+ internal users, a terabyte-scale observability stack, and incident response for the platform. I owned hiring, performance, architecture decisions and the roadmap.

    • Made tenant onboarding dependable. Weekly success rate from 70% to ~100%, and time to onboard from 24+ hours to under 2, bringing prospect time-to-value under a week against competitors' multiple weeks.
    • Built incident management from scratch. Established incident management, then led the shift to AI-native response with a Slack-based AI SRE agent. Mean mitigation time fell from 3+ hours to under 15 minutes.
    • Helped unlock our first $1M+/year enterprise deal. Contributed to 99.99% platform availability and revamped tenant backup and restore for better reliability and quicker disaster recovery, cutting recovery from 10+ hours to under 3.
    • Ran observability for less. Took the stack to 99.9% availability while cutting its cost by ~15%.
  2. Oct 2019 – Sep 2023

    Engineer to Engineering Manager, Messaging · Plivo

    Joined the SMS platform as an engineer and was promoted twice in three years, to lead the team I'd been building with.

    1. Engineering Manager 2023

      Decoupled observability from vendors with OpenTelemetry, reducing multi-week, cross-team vendor migrations to config changes. Rebuilt technical onboarding, taking new-hire ramp-up from 4+ weeks to under 2. Recognised internally for unified onboarding and a better on-call experience.

    2. Software Engineer III 2021–22

      Reduced p99 latency by up to 10× through query batching, better indexes, caching and finer-grained observability. Cut cloud costs by thousands of dollars a month (~6%) with tuned autoscaling, SQS batching and AWS Graviton. Turned the lessons into three talks.

    3. Software Engineer II 2019–21

      Designed and shipped dynamic SMS routing: delivery up 3%, margins up 13%, and 20+ hours a week of manual carrier-quality ranking automated away.

  3. Jun 2016 – Sep 2019

    Senior Software Engineer, Collect · Atlan

    Owned the customer-facing data export service end to end. Cut export time from 5+ hours to under 1, added filters, emailed archives and multiple file formats, and shipped Google Sheets and Zapier integrations. Built sub-second search and analytics on Elasticsearch.

Talks

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