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Samson K.

Staff Platform Engineer · GenAI Infrastructure · Open Source Contributor (OpenSSL, Kyverno) | Walmart Global Tech

Greater Bengaluru Area

14+ years of work experience

Walmart Global Tech ndia
Jul 20206 yrs 4 mosPresent

Bengaluru

Edge Content Delivery: - Built Centurion from the ground up — an MCP-native release orchestrator that lets engineers deploy T1 Proxy to thousands of Walmart edge nodes by typing a sentence. Automated CHG validation, progressive rollout, golden signal gating, and rollback; cut deployment overhead in half and created a reusable AI-deployment framework now being extended to additional Walmart platform teams. - Migrating Walmart T1 Proxy to Kubernetes (Architecting Ingress Solutions) - Automating the build and release pipelines with CI / CD flows - Infrastructure as Code (Terraform ) - Application Automation (Ansible, SaltStack) - Compliance as Code (Inspec) - Drift Management Architecture and Design - Backend API Development (Python) Certification Preparation: CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator)
Walmart Global Tech ndia
Dec 20181 yr 8 mosJul 2020

Bengaluru Area, India

Achievement: - Built cost optimizer which helped save 20 million dollars Full Stack development: - BackEnd API Development for managing Splunk infrastructure: Python - FrontEnd UI Development for Onboarding Splunk customers: ReactJS (Electrode) - CI / CD: Jenkins / OneOps - Clouds: Azure / GCP - Infrastructure Automation: Terraform, OneOps, Ansible, Chef - Monitoring - telegraf, Grafana - Log Analysis - Splunk Enterprise
Walmart Global Tech ndia
Dec 20181 yr 8 mosJul 2020

Developed and optimized backend APIs in Python to manage and streamline Splunk infrastructure. Designed and implemented responsive frontend UIs in ReactJS (Electrode) for seamless customer onboarding. Automated and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and OneOps for efficient deployment processes. Managed and enhanced cloud infrastructure (Azure/GCP) with Terraform, OneOps, Ansible.
Qualys
Mar 201810 mosDec 2018

Pune, Maharashtra, India

- Building highly scalable and robust elasticsearch logging infrastructure. - Docker based immutable images - Terraform and Ansible based configuration management - Service Registry and Discovery using Consul - Log buffering using Kafka - Zookeeper for distributed co-ordination - Alerting and notification management using ElastAlert - Cluster monitoring using ElasticHQ - Build using Gradle - Business Transaction monitoring using Appdynamics - Automating gossip encryption across Consul cluster
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
May 20161 yr 10 mosFeb 2018

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Noteworthy projects: AWS Provisioning using Terraform, CloudFormation Centos 6.8 and 7 OS Hardening using Chef 12.x Windows 2012 R2 and 2008 R2 OS Hardening and Compliance using Chef 12.x Windows 2012 R2 and 2008 R2 Network Automation using Chef 12.x Chef Ohai plugin to collect multipath information Automated Patch Management on Linux Network Automation on Windows and Linux using Chef HP Helion Openstack Administration Development of Augmented Reality Apps for Industrial IoT customers As a Speaker: - Spoke about Automated Compliance solution at the ETSS event in Bangkok. - Spoke on achieving High velocity IT using Infrastructure automation at Tech Forum 2017 held in Singapore As a Trainer: - Provided Chef Essentials, Ruby and Git training to QualComm, Hyderabad - Provided Chef Essentials training to Wipro, Bangalore
Tech Mahindra
May 20133 yrs 1 moMay 2016

Pune

Handling solution architectural projects and proposals based on both COTS (Commercial-off-the-shelf) products and Opensource technologies in the ITSM and Operations Management area including monitoring and search consulting. NOTEWORTHY TASKS: Performed audit of monitoring tools for H3G, UK Performed audit of ITSM tools for A1 Telekom, Austria Completed monitoring of Tomcat, MySQL and IBM iSeries (AS400) for CPW, UK Complete end to end implementation of Job Assurance monitoring via Nagios Implementation of IBM Web Application Server (WAS) monitoring via Nagios Successfully completed POC for opensource tools for Nagios and OTRS for SBI, Mumbai SKILLS: Java, Python, Javascript, LINUX, Elasticsearch, Nagios, ServiceNOW Administration, Opensource technologies BIG DATA SKILLS: Hadoop, Map Reduce, HBase, Hive, Pig, Squoop, Core Java, LINUX, Oozie, HDFS Hadoop POCs Completed: #1: TF-IDF is an Inverse document frequency for text processing. #2: Twitter Data Set (JSON format) using HDFS, Hive, Sqoop and MapReduce #3: Web logs Data Set using HDFS, Hive, Sqoop, and MapReduce #4: AVL packet data (Vehicle tracking system)
Mar 20121 yr 2 mosApr 2013

Pune Area, India

GitHub
@samsonkolge

Samson’s AI Stack

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Education

Savitribai Phule Pune University

BCS, Computer Science

Savitribai Phule Pune University

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SSC, Stella Maris High School

Stella Maris High School

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Headline

Staff Platform Engineer · GenAI Infrastructure · Open Source Contributor (OpenSSL, Kyverno) | Walmart Global Tech

About

I'm a Staff Platform Engineer at Walmart Global Tech with 15+ years building edge infrastructure, Kubernetes-native platforms, and AI-powered automation at scale. I architect agentic AI systems (LLM-based CHG deploy agents, multi-agent orchestration on Concord/Wibey) and lead drift detection, IaC, and CI/CD initiatives across a ~90-host fleet.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

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Work experience

Staff Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech ndia, Jul 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Edge Content Delivery: - Built Centurion from the ground up — an MCP-native release orchestrator that lets engineers deploy T1 Proxy to thousands of Walmart edge nodes by typing a sentence. Automated CHG validation, progressive rollout, golden signal gating, and rollback; cut deployment overhead in half and created a reusable AI-deployment framework now being extended to additional Walmart platform teams. - Migrating Walmart T1 Proxy to Kubernetes (Architecting Ingress Solutions) - Automating the build and release pipelines with CI / CD flows - Infrastructure as Code (Terraform ) - Application Automation (Ansible, SaltStack) - Compliance as Code (Inspec) - Drift Management Architecture and Design - Backend API Development (Python) Certification Preparation: CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator)

Sr. Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech ndia, Dec 2018 - Jul 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Achievement: - Built cost optimizer which helped save 20 million dollars Full Stack development: - BackEnd API Development for managing Splunk infrastructure: Python - FrontEnd UI Development for Onboarding Splunk customers: ReactJS (Electrode) - CI / CD: Jenkins / OneOps - Clouds: Azure / GCP - Infrastructure Automation: Terraform, OneOps, Ansible, Chef - Monitoring - telegraf, Grafana - Log Analysis - Splunk Enterprise

Senior Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech ndia, Dec 2018 - Jul 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos, Developed and optimized backend APIs in Python to manage and streamline Splunk infrastructure. Designed and implemented responsive frontend UIs in ReactJS (Electrode) for seamless customer onboarding. Automated and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and OneOps for efficient deployment processes. Managed and enhanced cloud infrastructure (Azure/GCP) with Terraform, OneOps, Ansible.

Sr. Devops Engineer at Qualys, Mar 2018 - Dec 2018 · 10 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, - Building highly scalable and robust elasticsearch logging infrastructure. - Docker based immutable images - Terraform and Ansible based configuration management - Service Registry and Discovery using Consul - Log buffering using Kafka - Zookeeper for distributed co-ordination - Alerting and notification management using ElastAlert - Cluster monitoring using ElasticHQ - Build using Gradle - Business Transaction monitoring using Appdynamics - Automating gossip encryption across Consul cluster

Software / Systems Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, May 2016 - Feb 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Noteworthy projects: AWS Provisioning using Terraform, CloudFormation Centos 6.8 and 7 OS Hardening using Chef 12.x Windows 2012 R2 and 2008 R2 OS Hardening and Compliance using Chef 12.x Windows 2012 R2 and 2008 R2 Network Automation using Chef 12.x Chef Ohai plugin to collect multipath information Automated Patch Management on Linux Network Automation on Windows and Linux using Chef HP Helion Openstack Administration Development of Augmented Reality Apps for Industrial IoT customers As a Speaker: - Spoke about Automated Compliance solution at the ETSS event in Bangkok. - Spoke on achieving High velocity IT using Infrastructure automation at Tech Forum 2017 held in Singapore As a Trainer: - Provided Chef Essentials, Ruby and Git training to QualComm, Hyderabad - Provided Chef Essentials training to Wipro, Bangalore

Technical Manager at Tech Mahindra, May 2013 - May 2016 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Pune, Handling solution architectural projects and proposals based on both COTS (Commercial-off-the-shelf) products and Opensource technologies in the ITSM and Operations Management area including monitoring and search consulting. NOTEWORTHY TASKS: Performed audit of monitoring tools for H3G, UK Performed audit of ITSM tools for A1 Telekom, Austria Completed monitoring of Tomcat, MySQL and IBM iSeries (AS400) for CPW, UK Complete end to end implementation of Job Assurance monitoring via Nagios Implementation of IBM Web Application Server (WAS) monitoring via Nagios Successfully completed POC for opensource tools for Nagios and OTRS for SBI, Mumbai SKILLS: Java, Python, Javascript, LINUX, Elasticsearch, Nagios, ServiceNOW Administration, Opensource technologies BIG DATA SKILLS: Hadoop, Map Reduce, HBase, Hive, Pig, Squoop, Core Java, LINUX, Oozie, HDFS Hadoop POCs Completed: #1: TF-IDF is an Inverse document frequency for text processing. #2: Twitter Data Set (JSON format) using HDFS, Hive, Sqoop and MapReduce #3: Web logs Data Set using HDFS, Hive, Sqoop, and MapReduce #4: AVL packet data (Vehicle tracking system)

Operations Management Consultant at Journey Telecom, India, Mar 2012 - Apr 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos, Pune Area, India

Education

BCS, Computer Science, Savitribai Phule Pune University

SSC, Stella Maris High School, Stella Maris High School

Public links

github: https://github.com/samsonkolge