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Aditya Kumar Seth
SQL

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Open to Site Reliability Engineering leadership roles in Europe

Aditya Kumar Seth

Business-Minded Technology Leader / SRE Engineering Manager

20+ years turning technical infrastructure into high-yield business assets.

"I love optimizing systems. I have saved over $40M/year on infrastructure by measuring and driving AI-assisted optimizations based on resource usage on cloud and on-prem."
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Focus

Optimization at Scale

Edge

HEC Paris EMBA

Languages

English (Native) · Hindi (Native) · German (Basic)

Impact Metrics

Infrastructure wins, measured in dollars and scale

A snapshot of the operational and financial outcomes I have driven across cloud and on-prem environments.

$40M+

Saved Annually

20k+

MySQL Servers Managed

20+

Years Experience

35%

Cloud Cost Reduction

Experience

A career built on reliability, scale, and business impact

From core banking systems to one of the world's largest MySQL fleets — engineering leadership with measurable outcomes.

Booking.com

SRE Engineering Manager

Feb 2022 — Present

Amsterdam, Netherlands

  • Direct multinational SRE teams running 20,000+ MySQL servers, integrating AI-driven observability and agentic auto-remediation to keep one of the world's largest MySQL fleets reliable.
  • Saved $40M+/year by optimising AWS and on-prem MySQL infrastructure with AI-based automation; agentic optimisation initiatives cut operational costs a further 20%.
  • Supervised the migration of thousands of servers to the cloud, improving scalability and reducing infrastructure costs by 35%.
  • Championed company-wide Technical FinOps, establishing cost-visibility frameworks and engineering-led optimisations across cloud and on-prem.
  • Own and optimise a multi-million-dollar vendor budget, negotiating high-value contracts and maximising ROI across external partnerships.
  • Designed the hiring playbook and end-to-end recruitment pipeline for the Bangalore expansion, hiring 20+ engineers in 5 months and standing up two new teams.
  • Lead 8 in-house ICs plus multiple outsourced teams, lifting collaboration and delivery efficiency by 30% while maintaining 100% SOX, PCI, and PII compliance.
  • Stay hands-on with the SRE teams and support 24/7 on-call incident response rotations.
FinOps AI Automation MySQL Leadership Hiring

Delivery Hero

Engineering Manager

Aug 2019 — Dec 2021

Berlin, Germany

  • Founded the Dynamic Pricing Service and led it from proof of concept to a critical Java/Kotlin system on Kubernetes and AWS deployed in 40+ countries, boosting pricing and delivery efficiency by up to 35%.
  • Spearheaded the Time Predictions Squad, delivering time-estimation and real-time order-tracking services handling 1M+ requests/min at ~15ms average latency.
  • Directed the lifecycle of the Delivery Areas product, increasing restaurant availability to nearby customers by 55%.
Dynamic Pricing Kubernetes Java Leadership

Delivery Hero

Senior Software Engineer

May 2015 — Aug 2019

Berlin, Germany

  • Designed and executed integrations with major restaurant chains such as McDonald's and Domino's using Python, PostgreSQL, and AWS, improving order processing efficiency by 50% and expanding service coverage by 30%.
  • Developed advanced geolocation services for real-time customer location tracking, improving delivery accuracy by 40% and customer satisfaction by 25%.
  • Drove site optimization, automation, and API-based third-party integrations at scale.
Scale Latency Python PostgreSQL

SpaceWays (Rocket Internet)

Senior Backend Developer

Dec 2014 — Apr 2015

Berlin, Germany

  • Built backend services with PHP/Phalcon following SOLID principles.
  • Optimized site performance with Memcache, Vagrant, and cross-cultural team delivery.
PHP Backend Optimization

MakeMyTrip.com

Manager, Technology

Apr 2014 — Nov 2014

Gurgaon, India

  • Led a cross-functional team of developers, QA, and designers through the responsive site launch and mobile site implementation, lifting site performance and user engagement by 23%.
  • Set up CDN, staging/live deployment pipelines, and live server monitoring.
  • Drove front-end optimization and code review standards.
CDN Responsive Web Team Management

FabFurnish.com (Rocket Internet)

Technical Architect / Engineering Manager

Mar 2012 — Apr 2014

Gurgaon, India

  • Architected the e-commerce platform with Solr faceted search and MySQL optimizations, improving server and database efficiency by 30%.
  • Led development of the mobile-optimized website, growing mobile traffic by 40%.
  • Managed backend performance, CDN setup, and MVC frameworks (Zend, Yii).
  • Mentored junior developers and owned staging-to-production delivery.
Solr MySQL eCommerce Architecture

Belzabar Software Design

Sr. Computer Scientist

Oct 2010 — Mar 2012

New Delhi, India

  • Managed website and server infrastructure for TLBB mobile apps.
  • Architected FAvision, an analytical web tool for Kasina LLC.
  • Led AWS server management, database optimization, and front-end performance improvements.
  • Drove team management and technical leadership across enterprise software projects.
AWS Architecture Team Leadership Optimization

Info Edge (Naukri.com)

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2008 — Jul 2010

Noida, India

  • Architected and optimized naukri.com and firstnaukri.com on the LAMP stack, improving site speed by 35%.
  • Delivered high-traffic recruitment platform features at scale, increasing user retention by 20%.
LAMP PHP MySQL

Oracle Financial Services

Associate Consultant

Aug 2006 — Feb 2008

Bengaluru, India

  • Developed and tested Flexcube, Oracle's flagship core banking product.
  • Worked on enterprise-grade banking solutions for global financial institutions.
Core Banking Flexcube Enterprise

Education & Certifications

Executive education meets deep technical credentials

Education

HEC Paris

Executive MBA

Specialization: Test your Start-up Idea · QS #2 Executive MBA globally (2026)

2024 — 2025

KIET (UP Technical University)

B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering

2002 — 2006

Certifications

Skills Matrix

Leadership, engineering depth, and infrastructure mastery

Leadership & FinOps

  • Engineering Management
  • FinOps & Cost Optimization
  • Team Scaling
  • SRE Practices
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Cross-Cultural Leadership

AI & Generative Tools

  • Agentic Workflows
  • Custom AI Bots & Auto-Remediation
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Claude
  • Cursor
  • NotebookLM

Software Engineering & Databases

  • MySQL at Scale
  • PostgreSQL
  • DynamoDB
  • Redis / Memcached
  • ElasticSearch
  • Distributed Systems
  • System Design
  • High-Throughput Services
  • Python / Java / PHP

Technologies & Infrastructure

  • AWS (RDS, EC2) & Cloud Migration
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Linux
  • Git
  • Observability & SLOs
  • Compliance (SOX, PCI, PII)