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Résumé

Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer

Vishnu E

I build and run Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure that stays up — 9+ years turning production incidents, manual toil, and unowned services into automated, accountable systems. I am a Kubestronaut with all 5 Kubernetes certifications earned.

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  • 9+years in production infrastructure
  • 15engineers led
  • 5/5Kubernetes certs completed
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About

I'm a cloud infrastructure engineer specializing in the reliability side — Kubernetes platforms, observability, and the automation that keeps enterprise infrastructure from depending on any one person's memory.

Most of my work sits at the intersection of platform engineering and software engineering: I write Go and Python to replace manual operational processes, not just to script around them. A recurring pattern in my work is finding a process that quietly costs an organization hours every week — an ownership gap, a manual notification workflow, an alert nobody trusts — and rebuilding it as something accountable and automated.

I currently lead a 15-engineer platform team at Bosch Global Software Technologies, running Kubernetes infrastructure and CI/CD platforms at enterprise scale across Azure and on-prem OpenShift. I use GitHub Copilot in agent mode daily and ship AI-assisted, not AI-replaced — I still default to first-principles debugging: find the root cause, not the symptom.

I learn on the fly. Give me a desired end state or a problem statement and I'll work out the best execution path myself — I don't need the unfamiliar broken down for me first. What I do need is to actually understand it: for anything new, I dig into why and how it works underneath, rather than copying the first pattern that gets me unblocked, and I'll push back on "that's just how it's done" when it doesn't hold up to that scrutiny.

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Experience

  1. Oct 2023 — Present

    Senior DevOps Engineer

    Bosch Global Software Technologies

    Lead a team of 15 engineers running Kubernetes (AKS) platform infrastructure. Built a Go CLI that automated a manual service-ownership and customer-notification workflow, cutting an estimated 390 hours/year of manual effort to roughly 250. Migrated observability from Azure Log Analytics to Datadog and run Cilium (eBPF) in production, including kube-proxy replacement. Own firewall policy and network-zone compliance.

  2. Aug 2021 — Sep 2023

    Senior Software Engineer

    Bosch Global Software Technologies

    Scaled a self-hosted, auto-scaling GitHub Actions runner platform (ARC) across Azure AKS and on-prem OpenShift, running 25,000–45,000 CI/CD jobs a day for internal teams. Ran GitHub Enterprise, JFrog Artifactory, and Mattermost org-wide for availability, security, and release readiness. Led incident response and root-cause analysis to reduce MTTR.

  3. Mar 2018 — Aug 2021

    System Engineer

    Tata Consultancy Services — SAP Labs & SAP Hybris (client engagements)

    Automated infrastructure with Ansible across a fleet of 10,000+ Linux and 900+ Windows servers spanning GCP, AWS, and private cloud. Wrote Ansible automation that cut maintenance windows by 75% for SAP data-center migrations and upgrades.

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Selected work

Service-ownership automation

Go · PostgreSQL · Azure Communication Services

Problem

In a large organization, the person who provisions a service eventually leaves — and the service keeps running with no accountable owner. That's unclaimed spend and a compliance gap, and the existing fix was a manual weekly export-and-mail-merge campaign costing 7–8 hours a week.

Approach

Built a Go CLI that treats a PostgreSQL contact database — queried live via PostgREST — as the source of truth instead of a spreadsheet snapshot. It resolves recipients by contact tier and dispatches templated notifications through Azure Communication Services from a single command.

Result

Cut an estimated 390 hours/year of manual preparation and dispatch to roughly 250, and turned an easily-skipped campaign into a repeatable, on-demand mechanism.

digitalAlbum.io

AI-assisted build · Solo product

Problem

Wedding photographers hand clients photos via drive transfers or next-day delivery — a slow, disconnected moment right after the event that should feel immediate.

Approach

Drove architecture, product decisions, and iteration solo, using GitHub Copilot in agent mode to write the Go backend and React frontend — an AI-assisted build rather than hand-coded full-stack work, with me directing scope and reviewing output rather than writing the app line by line.

Result

Photographers show clients their photos on-site at the venue. Live in production. digitalAlbum.io ↗

CI/CD platform at scale

GitHub Actions (ARC) · Azure AKS · OpenShift

Problem

Hundreds of internal teams needed reliable, self-hosted CI runners across a hybrid cloud and on-prem footprint, without each team managing its own runner fleet.

Approach

Scaled a self-hosted, auto-scaling GitHub Actions runner platform (ARC) across Azure AKS and on-prem OpenShift, with sane defaults and customizable configs for teams with unusual requirements.

Result

The platform now runs 25,000–45,000 CI/CD jobs a day for internal customer teams.

Also evaluated an AI gateway architecture (Bifrost vs. LiteLLM) for a large developer organization's cross-cloud LLM traffic — recommended an approach based on credential blast radius and egress economics. Not implemented, for organizational rather than technical reasons.

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Skills

Kubernetes & Platform

  • AKS
  • OpenShift
  • Istio
  • Cilium / eBPF
  • Helm

Cloud & OS

  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Linux

Languages & Automation

  • Go
  • Python
  • Ansible
  • Terraform

CI/CD & Delivery

  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions (ARC)
  • GitHub Enterprise
  • JFrog Artifactory

Observability & Reliability

  • Datadog
  • Azure Monitor
  • Incident RCA / MTTR

AI-assisted engineering

  • GitHub Copilot (agent mode)
  • Microsoft Semantic Kernel

Certifications

Current

  • CKACertified Kubernetes Administrator — The Linux Foundation, valid through 2028
  • CKADCertified Kubernetes Application Developer — The Linux Foundation, valid through 2028
  • CKSCertified Kubernetes Security Specialist — The Linux Foundation, valid through 2028
  • KCNAKubernetes and Cloud Native Associate — The Linux Foundation, valid through 2028
  • KCSAKubernetes and Cloud Security Associate — The Linux Foundation, valid through 2028

Earlier

  • AZ-104Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate — expired
  • CCNACisco Certified Network Associate (Routing and Switching) — expired
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Let's talk

Open to senior / lead remote DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering roles. If you're hiring — or just want to talk Kubernetes — I'm easiest to reach by email.

e.vishnu55@gmail.com LinkedIn ↗ GitHub ↗