SHIVAM/KUMAR
DEVOPS ENGINEER · DELHI, INDIA

I build dependable systems for the messy real world.

DevOps Engineer at Kimbal Technologies with 2+ years across Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, data platforms, and security—now extending that systems foundation into AI and machine learning.

Deployment time2h 15mthrough Terraform + Ansible
Incident response60% reduction in MTTR
Data throughput1M+/secKafka messages operated
Public practice152GitHub repositories

I work where software meets operations—turning infrastructure, delivery, data, and monitoring into one reliable system.

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JUNE 2024 — PRESENT

DevOps Engineer

Kimbal Technologies · Delhi, India

2.1 yrs
PLATFORM

Designed and operated production applications on on-prem Kubernetes with Docker, Helm, and Argo CD—built for scale, reliability, and secure data pipelines.

AUTOMATION

Cut deployment time from two hours to fifteen minutes through Terraform modules, Ansible automation, and recovery workflows.

DATA

Operated Kafka pipelines processing more than one million messages per second with durability controls, lag monitoring, and failure recovery.

RELIABILITY

Built SLI/SLO-driven observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty, reducing MTTR by 60% through tuned alerts and runbooks.

CLOUD

Led an AWS-to-OCI migration with Terraform, OKE, and security-first network design; delivered NLB, ALB, ingress, and IPv4/IPv6 translation.

SECURITY

Owned DevSecOps initiatives from proof of concept to enterprise rollout across VAPT, SIEM, vulnerability management, and penetration testing.

JAN 2024 — MAY 2024

DevOps Engineer Intern

Kimbal Technologies · Delhi, India

Built monitoring with CloudWatch, Zabbix, and ELK; supported PostgreSQL, Cassandra, and Redis; automated recurring maintenance with Bash and Python.

Broad enough for the system.
Deep where production hurts.

Five operating layers, one goal: software that stays healthy after deployment day.

SELECTED LAYER

Platform

01Kubernetes02Docker03Helm04Argo CD05Nginx Ingress06EKS07OKE
A

Failure modes stay obvious. Alerts should tell a human what to do next.

B

Automation removes toil. Repetition is a signal to build a system.

C

Security starts in design. Not as a scanner at the end of delivery.

M.TECH FOCUS · BITS PILANI

Intelligence needs
infrastructure.

I’m building depth across modern AI while applying a production engineer’s lens: data quality, reproducibility, evaluation, observability, cost, security, and dependable deployment.

01 / GENERATIVE SYSTEMS

GenAI

LLM application patterns, prompt and context engineering, embeddings, vector search, agentic workflows, evaluation, guardrails, and production inference.

LLMsAgentsEvaluationInference
02 / MODEL SERVING

Inference Engineering

Production model serving optimized for predictable latency, high throughput, efficient compute, and observable behavior under real workloads.

vLLMBatchingQuantizationKV cacheGPU utilizationLatency
03 / RETRIEVAL

RAG + CRAG

Retrieval pipelines, corrective retrieval, reranking, grounding, citations, chunking strategies, and reliable knowledge systems.

04 / LEARNING

Deep Learning

Neural networks, optimization, representation learning, transformers, CNNs, training dynamics, and model evaluation.

05 / DECISION MAKING

Reinforcement Learning

MDPs, value and policy methods, exploration, reward design, Q-learning, policy gradients, and sequential decision systems.

06 / PERCEPTION

Computer Vision

Image classification, detection, segmentation, visual representation learning, multimodal systems, and efficient vision inference.

07 / EMBODIED AI

Robotics

Perception-to-action loops, planning, control, localization, sensor fusion, simulation, and the software infrastructure behind autonomous systems.

08 / NEXT COMPUTE

Quantum Computing

Quantum information foundations, qubits, gates, circuits, measurement, core algorithms, and hybrid quantum-classical computation.

09 / FOUNDATIONS

Mathematics

The layer beneath every model and system.

Linear algebraProbabilityStatisticsCalculusOptimizationNumerical methods
DATAMODELEVALUATEDEPLOYOBSERVEIMPROVE

Systems, tools
& public work.

Production engineering meets practical AI, civic infrastructure, and clear technical communication.

2025 — 2027

M.Tech, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

BITS Pilani · Work Integrated

2020 — 2024

B.E., Computer Science & Engineering

Panjab University · CGPA 8.17/10

FIELD NOTES / CONTINUOUS LEARNING

Still learning
in public.

KubeCon Delhi 2024 · KubeCon Hyderabad 2025 · Amazon SageMaker Roadshow 2025 · PGConf Bangalore 2026 · Oracle AI Experience 2026

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NOW READING
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Secure
DevOps

Building security into the delivery system—not bolting it on.

IN PROGRESS
AVAILABLE FOR MEANINGFUL WORK

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