Staff Site Reliability Engineer & Area Tech
Lead
etn@pi-r.org | +41 79 150 95 84 |
Zürich, Switzerland
Professional Summary
Staff Site Reliability Engineer and Area Tech Lead with 15+ years of
experience architecting and operating hyper-scale distributed systems.
Proven track record driving technical strategy and architectural
governance for a 100+ engineers organization across global hubs
(Switzerland, Ireland, US). Expert in planetary-scale rollout
infrastructure, distributed control planes, AI-assisted spec-driven
development, and incremental risk-mitigation frameworks that de-risk
complex platform migrations while delivering continuous value.
Experience
Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Area Tech Lead) Google Zürich,
Switzerland 2025 – Present
- Global Technical Leadership: Area Tech Lead for
Google’s Rollouts Infrastructure, governing architectural strategy,
design standards, and system resilience for a 100+ engineers
organization across Switzerland, Ireland, and the US.
- AI & Engineering Modernization: Architected and
deployed Spec-Driven Development (SDD) standards across the organization
for greenfield and legacy architectures, establishing formal system
specifications that maximized AI-assisted code generation efficacy and
developer velocity.
- Tech Lead Mentorship & Talent Growth: Mentor
and coach senior engineers and Tech Leads across Google, establishing
architecture review standards and cultivating senior technical
leadership talent.
- Planetary Scale Governance: Define multi-year
technical roadmaps for Google’s core deployment infrastructure, ensuring
system fault tolerance and zero-downtime execution across global
production footprints.
- Cross-Functional Consensus: Drive architectural
consensus across diverse engineering groups with competing priorities,
aligning technical specifications towards a unified distributed control
plane vision.
Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Tech Lead) Google Zürich,
Switzerland 2020 – 2025
- Core Platform Modernization: Spearheaded multi-year
architectural modernization of Google’s central actuation and rollout
engine. Led a senior task force (Staff & Senior SREs) to
re-architect legacy components into scalable distributed systems
supporting concurrent, high-velocity rollouts.
- Resilience & SLA Governance: Defined formal
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and SLOs for the new actuation platform;
engineered end-to-end telemetry, automated rollbacks, and safeguards
across planetary infrastructure, driving measurable reliability
improvements and faster incident recovery.
- Technical & Executive Tradeoff Alignment:
Navigated complex architectural trade-offs between delivery velocity and
system availability with VP/Director leadership, establishing release
sequencing that maximized throughput.
- Systems Engineering: Directed high-reliability
control plane implementations in Go and
C++ targeted at Google’s Linux/Borg planetary
infrastructure.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer Google Zürich, Switzerland 2015 –
2020
- Hyper-Scale Platform Infrastructure: Founded and
architected a unified production management platform (Configuration,
Telemetry, Capacity Planning, Load Balancing, CI/CD) powering
10,000+ critical services across Google (Cloud,
Workspace, YouTube, Search).
- Incremental Risk Mitigation: Established an agile
platform milestone model that de-risked complex, multi-year
infrastructure migrations, delivering continuous, value-additive
capability releases across internal services.
- Technical Team Leadership: Directed core platform
architecture (team of 6 SREs) and led technical integration with dozens
of partner engineering teams across Google.
- Tech Stack: Development in Go and
Python on Linux.
Site Reliability Engineer Google Zürich, Switzerland 2013 – 2015
- Production Reliability Engineering: Tech Lead
owning reliability, capacity planning, monitoring, and continuous
deployment pipelines for core Google Apps infrastructure.
Prior Engineering Experience 2007 – 2012
- Software Engineer (Winamax, Paris, 2011–2012):
Engineered high-concurrency backend services in C and
C++ on Debian Linux supporting 30,000
concurrent real-time players.
- Software Engineer (CSSI, France, 2007–2011):
Architected low-level networking, thread management, and shared-memory
C++ libraries on AIX/Linux for banking routing infrastructure. Served as
Scrum Master.
Education
Master’s Degree in Engineering (Computer Science) EFREI Villejuif,
France 2001 – 2004
Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie IUT de Vélizy Vélizy, France
2000 – 2001
Technical & Leadership Core
| Architectural & SRE Leadership |
Area Technical Leadership, Distributed Systems Architecture, AI
& Spec-Driven Development, Tech Lead Mentorship, Incremental Risk
Mitigation |
| Production & Resilience |
Planetary-Scale SRE, Distributed Control Planes, Automated Rollbacks
& Safeguards, Incident Command, Capacity Planning |
| Infrastructure & Ecosystem |
Linux, Borg, Kubernetes, Enterprise Rollout & Actuation Engines,
CI/CD, gRPC, Protobuf |
| Languages & Systems |
Go, C++, C, Python, Bash |