For three years I was the only platform engineer at a security startup, and honestly, I didn't really know what "SRE" meant while I was doing it. There was no team, no on-call rota, nobody else to page , i.e. just me and whatever was broken. This talk is about the decisions I made with no one around to tell me if I was making the right call, and what that does to you. Over time, moments like that turned into habits I didn't plan to build , such as tearing down environments every night, making every pipeline safe to reverse, treating every deploy like it might be the one nobody else can fix. I don't think this is how anyone should learn reliability. But it's how I learned it, and I think there's something useful in seeing what those instincts look like when nobody hands them to you.
Saurabh is a Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer has worked across with multiple teams including small startups to giant banking firms. At heart, he's a learner and tinkerer who loves DevOps and building things, has a soft spot for startups, and is also a teacher.
