Headline

Senior Cloud Development Engineer with 10+ years | Kubernetes | OpenShift | Cloud Architecture | Infrastructure Automation | CI/CD Pipelines | Monitoring & Observability | Software Engineer

About

I am an accomplished Cloud and Platform Engineering professional with over 10 years of experience in architecting, automating, and managing large-scale enterprise infrastructure across Kubernetes, OpenShift, and hybrid cloud ecosystems. My expertise lies in designing and leading cloud-native transformation initiatives that support mission-critical workloads and high-availability environments. I have a strong background in DevOps and Infrastructure Automation, implementing CI/CD pipelines and operational governance to deliver scalable and secure enterprise platforms. Throughout my career, I have been recognized for driving platform reliability and operational efficiency through proactive monitoring and resource utilization analysis. I have made significant contributions to open-source projects, enhancing developer productivity and release stability. My technical capabilities span cloud operations, IBM Z infrastructure, and modern cloud-native application platforms and Software Engineering, allowing me to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to achieve strategic infrastructure planning and execution.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Senior Cloud Development Engineer at IBM, Mar 2023 - May 2026 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, India Systems Development Lab, Openshift on IBM Z Team Working to enable Openshift Addons on IBM Z - work with upstream odo (https://github.com/redhat-developer/odo) to ensure it works on IBM Z. This includes testing and patching odo and the devfiles. as needed - Create and manage infrastructure and CI for odo and amq streams addons. Infrastructure and Automation SPOC for OpenShift on Z India TZ. - Manage Openshift on Z team testlab lpars via HMC and tessia. - Writing and consulting automations for team - Handle escalation of OCP Cluster issues from team. - Handle AWS and IBm Cloud resources - Integrated use of AI tooling into day to day work

Senior Software Engineer 1 at Avesha, May 2022 - Jan 2023 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Working on Kubernetes Service Mesh

Software Engineer at Red Hat, Mar 2019 - May 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Container Tools Team - Red hat Developers (devtools - developers.redhat.com) Engineering tools chain for Linux Containers life cycle odo https://github.com/openshift/odo Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Linux Containers, - contributing to odo cli - moved odo to use prow for CI - Managed internal open stack infra for odo - primary release manager of odo project

Developer at The CentOS Project, Feb 2016 - May 2022 · 6 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, CentOS Community Container Pipeline (https://wiki.centos.org/ContainerPipeline)

Atomic Image Tester at Fedora Project, Jan 2016 - May 2022 · 6 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, helped in testing Fedora containers

Associate Software Engineer at Red Hat, Jan 2016 - Mar 2019 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Container Tools Team - Red hat Developers (devtools - developers.redhat.com) Engineering tools chain for Linux Containers life cycle Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Linux Containers, Vagrant, Python, Ruby, CentOS Container Pipeline, Odo - onboard multiple containers to Container pipeline - built prototype atomic image for CentOS which is a minimal image with a small footprint. - built the prototype api server which scrapes information from pipeline and makes it available to UI ie registry.centos.org - contributing to odo project

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science, Visvesvaraya Technological University

Certified IT & Cloud Architect, Network and System Administration/Administrator, CMS Computer Institute