Open to new roles / Remote
Hi! I’m Shubham, a platform and site reliability engineer who has spent 7+ years making AWS, GCP and Azure behave. At Akka I led the redesign of our control plane on Crossplane, which now runs 40+ platform deployments for enterprise customers. I also own the platform side of our AI inference and fine-tuning product, and got to take it from a scrappy proof of concept all the way to production.
Hand me an ambiguous, high-stakes problem and a whiteboard, and I’m a happy engineer.
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- multi-cloud-control-planes
- kubernetes-operators
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enum: ["True", "False", Unknown]01 / Focus
Turning GPUs into something product teams can just use. Multi-tenant LLM serving and fine-tuning as a platform feature: Go operators on Kubernetes DRA and vLLM, GPU pools that hop between hyperscalers and neoclouds, and an inference gateway on agentgateway that sees every model request.
I like making infrastructure the easy “yes” in an enterprise deal. Composite cross-cloud APIs on Crossplane that bake in each customer’s security, networking and compliance needs: hub-and-spoke networking, CMEK, zero-trust access.
Pagers should be quiet and dashboards should be cheap. Running production across dozens of regions with observability that pays for itself: self-hosted Cortex and Tempo, golden images, spot-node tricks, and OpenTelemetry end to end.
02 / Experience
Available upon request. Some endorsements can be found on my LinkedIn page.
03 / Open source
zio/zio-http
Former ZIO member. 36+ merged PRs including server response compression, request decompression and a WebSocket binary-frame fix. Spoke on “What’s new in zio-http” at ZIO World 2022.
akka/akka-management
Authored Azure RBAC service discovery for AKS (PR #1311, merged).
crossplane ecosystem
Contributor to crossplane/docs, function-go-templating and provider-upjet-gcp.
arttor/helmify
PR #193 to preserve namespace metadata through Helm chart conversion. Also merged a ServiceAccount refactor in prometheus-cloudwatch-exporter.
04 / Toolbox
05 / Contact
Hiring for platform, SRE or AI infrastructure? Wrestling with a gnarly multi-cloud or GPU problem? Or just want to geek out about Kubernetes? Drop me a note, I’d love to hear from you.
Rather talk it through? Grab a slot on my calendar.
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