Organizational Tech Lead in Google

Oleg
Klyudt.

Defining technical strategy and leading global engineering teams to make Google Cloud Platform succeed in AI, Reliability, and Security.

Oleg Klyudt presenting at HighLoad++

Scale & Scope

Global Leadership at Google

As an UberTL and Senior Staff SRE, I drive the reliability and risk management strategy for a 3,000+ developer organization within GCP.

I am responsible for defining and implementing technical strategy across domains of Reliability, Security, and Compliance, directly leading 7 highly-specialized teams across 5 countries and 2 continents.

7
Engineering Teams
5
Countries
3k+
Developer Org
12+
Years at Google

Core Domains

Strategic Expertise

Security & IAM

Leading GCP Security Products and Infrastructure, specializing in Authentication (Authn), Authorization (Authz), and massive-scale compliance programs. Ensuring business continuity for GCP Identity stacks globally.

AI Agentic Identity

Pioneering strategies for Secure LLMs and Non-Human Agentic Identities. Defining the architectural paradigms necessary to safely and reliably integrate autonomous AI agents into enterprise environments.

Site Reliability Engineering

Architecting highly resilient, replicated service meshes. Hardening systems against failure modes in load balancing, distributed state, lifecycle management, and release pushes. Driving risk management for thousands of engineers.

Cross-Continental Strategy

Bootstrapping and scaling engineering teams globally (Zurich, US, Canada). Establishing reliability tracks, assessing risks, and cultivating local technical leadership across distributed sites to ensure unified execution.

Career Journey

Professional Experience

UberTL, Sr Staff SRE, GCP Security Platforms & Products

Jan 2024 - Present
Google • Zurich, Switzerland

UberTL of 6 SRE Teams across 4 countries and 2 continents: GCP Security Products and Infra (Authn, Authz), Secure LLMs and Non-Human Agentic Identities. Drive Reliability and Risk Management Strategy for 3k+ Developers org. Won Google Tech Impact Award and multiple Google Cloud Tech Impact awards.

UberTL, Sr Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Sep 2022 - Jan 2024
Google • Zurich, Switzerland

UberTL of GCP IAM SRE teams in Zurich, Canada and US. TL for multiple reliability assessments, monitoring and compliance programs across IAM SRE and Cloud Security org comprising several thousands of engineers.

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Jun 2020 - Sep 2022
Google • Zurich, Switzerland

Global TL GCP Identity SRE. Bootstrapped a new team in Switzerland and Canada. Ensured GCP Identity stack reliability and business continuity. Led multiple GCP-wide incident responses. Grew multiple site local TLs.

Systems Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer

Feb 2017 - Jun 2020
Google • Zurich, Switzerland

TL of Core Identity SRE. Led a cross-continental team building next-gen real-time observability platforms. Scoped, led, and concluded the Google Wide Core Identity Dependency Audit program, securing funding for multi-year reliability programs.

Technical Solutions & Support Engineer

May 2014 - Jan 2017
Google • Dublin, Ireland / Zurich, Switzerland

Early Career & Research Engineering

Prior to 2014

Including roles as a Research Assistant at DLR (Synthesized Aperture Radar Tomography), HiWi at TU Munich (NoSQL TSDBs & Network probes), Praktikant at BMW (LTE simulations), and Core Engineer at MegaFon.

Education

Master of Science, Communications Engineering

Technische Universität München (TU Munich) • 2011 - 2013

Engineer's Degree, Radio Electronic Systems

Ural State Technical University • 2006 - 2011

Bachelor's Degree, Interpreter (English-Russian)

Ural State Technical University • 2009 - 2011

Honors & Publications

Publications

"Replicated service mesh: hardening systems against failure modes in load balancing, distributed state, lifecycle management, configuration and release pushes"

Honors & Awards

  • SRE Book Author
  • Conference Speaker
  • Multiple Google Tech Impact and Cloud Tech Impact Awards
  • DAAD Scholarship
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