Dinesh S.
Helping teams build a strategy and culture of Reliability at startups
Studied at University of Mumbai
Works at Opendoor
Available Sunday at 3:00 PM UTC
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Dinesh’s Site Reliability Engineering Qualifications
Experience level: Director
20+ people coached for Site Reliability Engineering
Welcome to my profile! With over two decades of experience in engineering and leadership roles, I specialize in site reliability engineering and cloud infrastructure. As the Director of Engineering for Infrastructure at Opendoor (and previously Headspace), I lead strategy and execution for cloud infrastructure and developer experience. My previous roles at Headspace and OpenText involved leading cloud infrastructure, SRE functions, and technical program management, where I successfully unified cloud platforms and improved developer productivity. I am passionate about helping aspiring engineers and professionals navigate the complexities of site reliability engineering. Let's connect to discuss how I can support your journey in mastering SRE and achieving your career goals!
Dinesh can help with:
Skill Building
LinkedIn Review
Incident Response
Promotion Strategy
Performance Optimization
Automation
Site Reliability Engineering
Technical Interview Prep
Behavioral Interview Prep
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About Dinesh
Hello there! I am technology professional with a penchant for seeking out new challenges with a high degree of curiosity. This has helped me build my career with over 20 years of experience. So by profession, I lead engineering teams at technology companies (both big and small) where I like to build a culture of authenticity, growth mindset and accountability coupled with psychological safety for my teams to thrive and grow. I am here to help to share my learnings and failures to shape and mould careers. Hello there! I am a technology professional driven by curiosity and a passion for tackling new challenges, which has shaped my career over the past 20+ years. Throughout my journey, I’ve had the privilege of leading engineering teams at technology companies of all sizes. My focus has always been on fostering a culture of authenticity, accountability, and a growth mindset—grounded in psychological safety—to empower my teams to thrive and excel. I’m here to share my experiences, including both successes and lessons learned, to help shape and nurture careers.
Why do I coach?
I coach because I genuinely enjoy listening and find fulfillment in knowing that my advice has made a positive difference in someone’s day. My strong sense of empathy allows me to deeply understand and address what my clients truly need. I have had a vast pool of experiences, both good and bad that allow me to provide a tailored guidance with practical examples and actionable plans to help my clients take the next meaningful step in their careers.
Work Experience
Director of Engineering - Infrastructure
Opendoor
January 2023 - Present
Director of Engineering for Infrastructure responsible for strategy and execution for Cloud Infrastructure, Developer Experience and SRE tooling capabilities at Opendoor. Platform Engineering, Microservices and +9 skills
Director of Engineering - Cloud and Developer Tooling
Headspace
November 2020 - December 2022
- Leading Cloud Infrastructure and SRE functions for Headspace and Ginger apps. - Led Developer Productivity team to improve developer happiness by improving release pipelines, provide developer tooling for automated testing. - Led Cloud security and Compliance tactics for Hitrust certification. - Unification of 2 Cloud platforms as part of a merger where I led the strategy and implementation to merge our authentication, accounts, IaaC, observability and incident management tooling. - Migration to serverless compute (Fargate) for our ECS services. - Introducing site-reliability as a function in a product-first organization. Platform Engineering, Developer Experience and +2 skills
Senior Technical Program Manager
OpenText
September 2019 - November 2020
Technical Program Management for building out Opentext's Developer Platform providing a host of services to build or extend your enterprise's information management capabilities. Key tracks managed: - Working with cross functional groups to track, enable, commercialize OpenText's Developer platform (https://developer.opentext.com/) - Migration of Cloud platform from Cloud Foundry to Google Anthos. - Program Management to deliver over 30 services and applications - Integration with APIGee for services metering and billing needs. - Cross functional coordination across Eng; DevOps, CloudOps, Product Management and Commercialization teams. - Implementation of modern CI/CD implementation across the platform. - Storage modernization from SWIFT to S3 - Building out cross functional/BU plans to identify dependencies, risks and milestones. Bringing structure to program and it's objectives. Learn more about OT2 - https://www.opentext.com/products-and-solutions/ot2 Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure and +1 skill
Senior Engineering Manager
IBM
February 2014 - August 2019
- Engineering Manager activities for rollout of Algo Risk Service on Cloud for various clients of IBM. - Engineering Manager activities for Cloud security and compliance activities for 2 of IBM's SaaS offerings in the Risk Analytics space Platform Engineering and Cloud Infrastructure
Engineering Manager
Infosys
March 2012 - October 2013
- Engineering Manager for Manulife Financial's DistributionIS portfolio of services - Key technical domains include Data Transformation, Data Storage, Salesforce and Compensation systems.
Engineering Manager, Engineer
Infosys
June 2003 - February 2012
- Engineering Manager/solution consulting for various Royal Bank of Canada projects - Stakeholder Management for Business Online Banking and Wealth Management groups - Key domains and projects lead - retail trading platform modernization, cash management systems, systems modernization, online banking applications - Managing, hiring, mentoring teams of ICs and tech leads
Dinesh was also given offers to work at
NVIDIA
Google
IBM
Opendoor
Headspace
OpenText
Fujitsu
Education
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
Diploma in Advanced Computing, Computer Science
1998 - 1999
University of Mumbai
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
1994 - 1998