Founder introduction
Trupti Kolekar
Founder & CEO, OpsCortex Labs · London
Site reliability engineer with production experience in banking, fintech and automotive. Expertise: Kubernetes, observability, infrastructure as code and incident response.
- 7+ yearsin engineering, since September 2019
- 16,000+LinkedIn followers; 17,053 new in the past year
- 4.8M+LinkedIn impressions in the past year
- 1,060+GitHub repositories under policy guardrails at Santander
Relevant experience
Production infrastructure since September 2019 and SRE since 2022, including incident response, root-cause analysis and on-call at GBST.
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Site Reliability Engineer II · GBST2025 – 2026
Incident response, root-cause analysis and on-call for production systems; chaos and resilience testing; cloud infrastructure automation and observability.
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Site Reliability Engineer · Santander UK2022 – 2025
Monitoring across 170+ AWS accounts; Dynatrace observability; GitHub Actions runners on Kubernetes for four projects.
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Volkswagen Group Digital Solutions (India)2019 – 2022
Infrastructure as code: 30+ Terraform modules across development, QA, pre-production and production, and 25+ Kubernetes manifests.
Technical achievements
- Policy guardrails at scalePolicy guardrails across 1,060+ GitHub repositories at Santander UK; 85% workflow compliance.
- Monitoring across 170+ AWS accountsInfrastructure monitoring across 170+ AWS accounts at Santander UK; 20+ Prometheus and Grafana integrations.
- Self-hosted CI on KubernetesGitHub Actions Runner Controller on Kubernetes across four major projects at Santander UK.
Community building
Trupti writes for practising engineers on Kubernetes, SRE, observability and DevOps.
- 16,089 followersOn 30 October 2026, with 17,053 new follows in the 12 months before.
- 4,869,594 impressions1,186,624 members reached and 63,933 engagements, 31 October 2025 to 30 October 2026.
- GrowthMonthly impressions rose from 517 in November 2025 to between 887K and 1.58M a month from July to October 2026.
Among the most-engaged posts
- Kubernetes Ecosystem15 Oct 2026 · 2,946 engagements · 166,237 impressions
- Logs vs Metrics vs Traces17 Oct 2026 · 1,493 engagements · 87,578 impressions
- Pod Affinity vs Pod Anti-Affinity21 Oct 2026 · 1,095 engagements · 94,901 impressions
Speaking and recognition
- Speaker, SREday London 2026“Beyond CPU and Memory: Reliability Signals for Production AI”, 24 September 2026.
- Speaker, QCon London 2027Debugging Distributed Systems Today track, 13 April 2027. Confirmed by the organisers by email, 29 October 2026; speaker page pending.
- Panelist, Tech-Baithak London“AI is everywhere. At what cost?”, 11 November 2026.
- CertificationsCertified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) · HashiCorp Terraform Associate (003), as listed on Trupti's LinkedIn profile.
SREday London 2026
On stage
The talk
The room
Before the talk
Upcoming
Speaker · QCon London 2027
Debugging Distributed Systems Today track
13 April 2027 · QEII Centre, London
Panelist · Tech-Baithak London
“AI is everywhere. At what cost?”
Wed 11 November 2026 · The Storey, London
What we are building
OpsCortex Labs is building a platform that helps engineering teams get ready for production incidents before they happen. Launching soon.
Role at OpsCortex Labs
- Founder & CEOProduct vision, go-to-market, design partners and fundraising. Full-time since October 2026.
Sources: role figures from Trupti's LinkedIn profile; audience figures from the LinkedIn analytics export, 31 October 2025 to 30 October 2026; talks confirmed by the organisers.