Aditya Seth is a Site Reliability Engineering Manager at Booking.com, where he leads teams operating and optimizing one of the world’s largest MySQL infrastructures across bare metal, private cloud, and AWS. With nearly 20 years of software engineering and leadership experience, he focuses on database reliability, production automation, capacity engineering, infrastructure optimization, and FinOps at scale. Aditya combines strict SLOs with evidence-based capacity testing to improve performance and reduce cloud waste without compromising resilience. He has multiple AWS and Finops certifications. He enjoys sharing practical lessons from operating large, business-critical database platforms.