Praveen Kottarathil
SRE Expert Lead at ING Nederland
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPraveen Kottarathil is an SRE expert lead with 11 years of experience applying software engineering, reliability and security practices across commercial aviation and financial services. Based in Amsterdam, he has progressed from hands-on developer and operations specialist to chapter lead and now SRE advisor, coaching teams on system safety, operational reliability and human factors. He excels at bridging developer, ops and security concerns—having embedded application security into SDLCs and run vulnerability assessments early in his career at Emirates. His technical breadth spans Linux, Java/Kotlin, Kafka, Cassandra, Prometheus and cloud automation, with a history of shipping high-frequency deployments and lean startup practices. Known for mentoring and enabling teams, he focuses on improving working conditions and shifting organizational paradigms around safety and reliability. Beyond technical delivery, he brings a pragmatic interest in DEI and human-centered reliability that informs how systems are designed and operated.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Mahatma Gandhi University
English, Malayalam, Dutch
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Github Skills (35)
kubernetes10
middleware10
spring10
kafka10
spam-filtering10
apache-camel10
java10
data-transformation10
referrer10
quarkus10
spring-boot10
yaml10
xml10
rest-api10
microservices10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
PickledDragon/hugo-theme-anubis
Mar 2020 - Dec 2025
Anubis is a simple minimalist theme for Hugo blog engine
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 10 months
hugoanubisminimalistblog-enginehugo-blog
PickledDragon/pickleddragon-hugo-source
Mar 2020 - Jun 2022
Hugo repo for pickleddraon.github.com
Contributions:8 PRs, 15 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 3 months
hugohugo-theme
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