Shiva Kumar C. Email & Phone Number

As a Senior Cloud Engineer I continue to work towards organizational goals.

Remote

As a DevOps Engineer at Rialtic Inc, I contributed to significant advancements in our cloud infrastructure, optimizing costs and improving service reliability:EKS Cluster Management: Installed, administered, and upgraded GitLab production on AWS EKS cluster using Terraform. Set up new EKS clusters, added utilities, and ran applications using GitOps tool ArgoCD in new AWS accounts, performing Kubernetes version upgrades.Service Mesh & Monitoring: Implemented Linkerd service mesh… Show more As a DevOps Engineer at Rialtic Inc, I contributed to significant advancements in our cloud infrastructure, optimizing costs and improving service reliability:EKS Cluster Management: Installed, administered, and upgraded GitLab production on AWS EKS cluster using Terraform. Set up new EKS clusters, added utilities, and ran applications using GitOps tool ArgoCD in new AWS accounts, performing Kubernetes version upgrades.Service Mesh & Monitoring: Implemented Linkerd service mesh, Edge Stack, Datadog, and Certificate Manager in all Kubernetes clusters.Internal Tools: Created an internal Jira status page for services and implemented an on-call workflow by integrating Jira, Jira Statuspage, Slack, and PagerDuty.Open Source Contribution: Facilitated easier access to multiple RDS Postgres instances from a single Lambda function used by AWS Athena and implemented RDS access from Athena.Cloudflare Management: Implemented a multi-account architecture in Cloudflare, working on Pages, Workers, and managing Origin certificate auto-renewal from Kubernetes clusters.Terraform Integration: Set up Terraform Cloud integration with GitLab, created workspaces using Terraform, and defined groups and permissions.IAM Management: Used IAM Identity Management to manage role-based access control of teams across several accounts.Sprint Management: Led ticket refinement tasks for the team each sprint.AWS Services Implementation: Implemented several services in on AWS including Airflow, Transfer Service, ElasticCache, RDS, EKS, VPC, IAM Auth, Workspaces, WorkDocs, Athena, AWS Glue etc Show less

Austin, Texas, United States

As a DevOps Engineer at Apple, I played a key role in supporting customer-facing applications in both on-premise data centers and AWS environments:Production Support: Supported all production activities, working with Apple-internal teams for production issues and follow-ups to resolution.Deployment Management: Performed weekly production deployments using Ansible/Kubernetes, coordinating with engineering managers for approvals and QA teams for testing.On-Call Rotation:… Show more As a DevOps Engineer at Apple, I played a key role in supporting customer-facing applications in both on-premise data centers and AWS environments:Production Support: Supported all production activities, working with Apple-internal teams for production issues and follow-ups to resolution.Deployment Management: Performed weekly production deployments using Ansible/Kubernetes, coordinating with engineering managers for approvals and QA teams for testing.On-Call Rotation: Participated in a rotational on-call schedule to respond to critical issues, ensuring rapid service restoration.Day-to-Day Operations: Monitored and updated Nagios alerts, managed Splunk logging and alerts, responded to service availability tickets, and updated ACLs and VIPs.Environment Setup: Set up new environments and scaled the environment for special events.Automation: Wrote Python/Shell scripts to improve task efficiency.Non-Prod Environment Support: Supported setup and changes for non-prod environments using Kubernetes/Helm/Flux in AWS. Show less

United States

Clemson, Sc

As a Product Engineer at Modjoul, I managed the full product lifecycle of the SmartBelt, coordinating development across multiple teams:Firmware Development: Built and tested SmartBelt firmware on a 32-bit microcontroller using C++, meeting functional and power requirements.Sensor Integration: Conducted research on various sensors and integrated them into the wearable device development, connecting multiple sensors using SPI, I2C, UART protocols, and ISRs.Project Management:… Show more As a Product Engineer at Modjoul, I managed the full product lifecycle of the SmartBelt, coordinating development across multiple teams:Firmware Development: Built and tested SmartBelt firmware on a 32-bit microcontroller using C++, meeting functional and power requirements.Sensor Integration: Conducted research on various sensors and integrated them into the wearable device development, connecting multiple sensors using SPI, I2C, UART protocols, and ISRs.Project Management: Prepared schedules for critical milestones, maintained design intent, performance, and quality standards, and drove teams towards target dates.PCB Design Collaboration: Reviewed schematics and worked with the PCB design team to implement the design.FMEA Analysis: Performed FMEA analysis at all stages to improve SmartBelt reliability.Test Planning: Defined test criteria and drafted test plans for internal and remote teams.BOM Development: Developed the Bill of Materials (BOM) for the SmartBelt, including all components and accessories.SOP Development: Developed Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for assembly on the production line by working closely with contract manufacturers.Stakeholder Coordination: Coordinated development across teams and managed global team meetings. Show less

Generated and compiled metadata including geospatial information for digitized photographs and records of State & National Parks, National Historic Sites & National Historic Landmarks. (Project of National Park Service (NPS))Worked towards a thesis on leakage and breakdown characteristics of Polymer Hermetic Sealed(PHS) tantalum capacitors, focusing on polymer-tantalum interface, by testing and comparing with thin-film models of same devicesDesigned circuit and testing devices at… Show more Generated and compiled metadata including geospatial information for digitized photographs and records of State & National Parks, National Historic Sites & National Historic Landmarks. (Project of National Park Service (NPS))Worked towards a thesis on leakage and breakdown characteristics of Polymer Hermetic Sealed(PHS) tantalum capacitors, focusing on polymer-tantalum interface, by testing and comparing with thin-film models of same devicesDesigned circuit and testing devices at elevated temperatures, in Liquid Nitrogen and acquiring data and plotting for analysisRegularly communicated the progress to project sponsor and the advising Professor Improved the course material, made available to answer student‘s subject queries, proctored for exams, evaluated and graded the assignments of a graduate level courseOrganized undergraduate electrical lab, which included instructing basic electrical concepts, handling lab equipment and final grading of students Show less

Pune, Maharashtra, India

As a Release Engineer at TekReliance, I facilitated efficient software builds and releases, supporting continuous integration and deployment:Configuration Management: Prepared documents and trained developers on SVN and Hudson (Jenkins). Assisted developers with issues related to CM tools.Build & Release Management: Performed daily/weekly software builds and releases for production environments.Environment Setup: Installed and configured Linux machines for new build… Show more As a Release Engineer at TekReliance, I facilitated efficient software builds and releases, supporting continuous integration and deployment:Configuration Management: Prepared documents and trained developers on SVN and Hudson (Jenkins). Assisted developers with issues related to CM tools.Build & Release Management: Performed daily/weekly software builds and releases for production environments.Environment Setup: Installed and configured Linux machines for new build environments.Continuous Integration: Used Hudson (Jenkins) for Continuous Integration and deployment on Tomcat server.Environment Configuration: Maintained and coordinated environment configuration, code integrity, and code conflict resolution. Show less