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Amazon2022 – Present · Platform Architect & Standards Owner

Standardized Infrastructure Monitoring Across Thousands of Services

Defined the monitoring standard across thousands of services and drove cross-team adoption.

The Problem

Infrastructure teams operated with fragmented, inconsistent monitoring across thousands of services. Different teams used different tooling, alert standards, and dashboard conventions — creating blind spots, duplicated effort, and unreliable signal during incidents.

There was no unified "paved road" for infrastructure monitoring, meaning each team had to reinvent their observability stack independently.

The Approach

Architected and drove adoption of a unified monitoring platform standardizing infrastructure observability across thousands of services. Defined common monitoring standards: alert policies, SLO baselines, dashboard conventions, and deployment playbooks.

Led cross-team alignment to migrate from fragmented legacy monitoring stacks to the unified platform. Established the platform as the "paved road" for all infrastructure monitoring — onboarding thousands of application stages and hundreds of thousands of monitors at scale.

The Impact

  • Standardized monitoring coverage across thousands of services at large scale
  • Onboarded thousands of application stages to the unified platform
  • Reduced time-to-detect and time-to-diagnose incidents through consistent, high-signal alerting
  • Eliminated redundant monitoring stacks previously maintained across teams
  • Adopted as the org-wide monitoring standard
ObservabilityPlatform EngineeringSREStandardization