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Who We Are

Engineering partners for resilient, high-velocity digital businesses

Skybitra equips product and platform teams with the strategy, talent, and automation to operate in the cloud with confidence. We are technologists, builders, and coaches obsessed with delivering measurable impact.

  • Global guild model Specialists across cloud architecture, platform engineering, SRE, FinOps, and security collaborating as one high-performing network.
  • Outcome-first delivery Every engagement maps to OKRs, value streams, and business cases co-written with your leaders.
  • Continuous enablement Playbooks, coaching, and change management ensure your teams sustain improvements long after launch.
Mission & Values

Guided by impact, partnership, and craftsmanship

We believe modern engineering teams deserve partners who can zoom out to strategy and zoom in to code. Our mission is to make cloud transformation tangible, measurable, and sustainable.

Impact obsession

We anchor engagements on customer and business outcomes, instrumenting the path to value and celebrating measurable progress.

Transparent collaboration

Embedded teams work in your tools, share daily context, and co-own decisions with a bias toward clarity and trust.

Craft excellence

We invest heavily in guilds, certifications, open-source contributions, and research so clients benefit from best-in-class practices.

Inclusive innovation

Diverse teams deliver better outcomes. We nurture an inclusive environment across regions, perspectives, and disciplines.

Leadership Team

Experienced operators dedicated to your success

Lin Mei | Chief Executive Officer

Former head of cloud strategy at a Fortune 100 retailer, Lin leads Skybitra with a focus on customer outcomes, culture, and long-term partnerships.

Arjun Malhotra | Chief Technology Officer

Platform engineering veteran with two decades of experience scaling developer platforms and distributed systems across fintech and SaaS.

Sophia Chen | VP, Reliability & Operations

Guides our SRE and managed services practices, championing measurable reliability and empathetic incident culture.

Daniel Ortega | VP, Cloud Economics

Leads FinOps, bringing financial rigor to technology investments and shaping value narratives for executives.

Timeline

Our journey to becoming a trusted cloud partner

2016

Skybitra founded in Shanghai with a mission to modernize cloud operations for Asia-Pacific innovators.

2018

Launched our first global delivery hub in Singapore, expanding DevOps and SRE managed services.

2020

Introduced FinOps and cloud economics practice; certified as a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider.

2022

Opened North America HQ in San Francisco and launched platform engineering guild.

2024

Skybitra teams active in 14 countries supporting digital banks, healthcare innovators, and global retail marketplaces.

How We Partner

Co-create platforms, operate together, then hand off confidently

Our engagement model starts with shared strategy, embeds side-by-side delivery pods, and ends with your teams fully enabled to own what we build together.

Discovery & Alignment

Strategy rooms in New York City, Singapore, and Shanghai

  • Joint OKR, value-stream, and risk mapping workshops
  • Architecture option analysis with measurable decision records
  • Governance cadence that keeps execs and squads in sync

Build & Run Together

Follow-the-sun pods across platform, SRE, and automation

  • Secure-by-default CI/CD, IaC patterns, and golden paths for teams
  • Reliability playbooks, observability baselines, and incident readiness
  • 24/7 coverage with clear on-call handoffs and runbook ownership

Enable & Transfer

Embedded coaching so your teams can lead

  • Capability-building workshops and labs tailored to your stack
  • Playbooks, inner-sourced templates, and documentation you keep
  • Shadow-to-lead transitions with success metrics and retrospectives
Culture & Community

Investing in people and open collaboration

Guilds & chapters

Each craft maintains a guild responsible for standards, tooling, and enablement. Chapters host weekly learning sessions and publish reusable playbooks.

Learning runway

Engineers receive dedicated learning budgets, certification support, and access to our internal sandbox labs for experimentation.

Diversity commitments

We partner with regional organizations to widen access to cloud careers, mentor early-stage talent, and sponsor community-led events.

Open-source contributions

Skybitra contributes to CNCF projects, Terraform modules, and open FinOps tooling to advance the ecosystem we rely on.

Let’s build together

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