SRE used to be about keeping systems alive under scarcity: limited machines, limited telemetry, limited deployment safety. Now the risk is abundance: too much cloud, too much telemetry, too many abstractions, too much automation and too many AI systems acting faster than humans can understand.
Maxime Brugidou is VP of Engineering, Platform at Criteo, where he leads large-scale platform and infrastructure engineering teams focused on reliability, scalability, and developer productivity. With a background spanning SRE, distributed systems, and data platforms, he has spent more than 15 years helping build and scale high-performance engineering organizations. Maxime is also active in the AI and cloud-native community, regularly supporting technical meetups and knowledge sharing initiatives in Paris.
