HARSHITA VYAS
Hyderabad
Summary
DevOps and Infra Engineer at Salesforce managing large-scale Kubernetes platforms, automating cluster operations, and building scalable cloud-native systems with AWS, Linux, and distributed infrastructure reliability at massive production scale.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Member of Technical Staff
Salesforce
Hyderabad
07.2024 - Current
- Manage and scale 1200+ production-grade AWS EKS clusters supporting mission-critical internal services across Salesforce.
- Production incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident reviews
- Own and maintain core Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure, including CoreDNS, kube-proxy, VPC CNI, container runtime components, nodepools, and critical addons for all tenants.
- Work extensively with containers, container runtimes, namespaces, cgroups, networking, and Linux OS fundamentals, ensuring reliable cluster and workload performance.
- Perform full cluster lifecycle operations: upgrades, patching, node rotations, migrations, multi-AZ validation, and large-scale infra rollouts.
- Monitor and improve system reliability through SLOs, SLIs, and budgets
- Architect high-availability, multi-tenant Kubernetes cluster designs optimized for large-scale backend infrastructure, reliability, security, and efficient resource usage.
- End-to-end production support in high-impact environments
- Build automation for nodepool provisioning, patch orchestration, scaling workflows, and cluster configuration verification, reducing operational load and human intervention.
- Developed a K8sGPT-based cluster monitoring agent that automatically detects failure patterns and sends proactive alerts on Slack.
- Perform troubleshooting using Splunk, metrics, traces, and distributed logs
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EKS, EC2 internals, networking), Linux debugging, distributed systems, cloud-native design patterns, and Karpenter-based autoscaling at scale.
Full Stack Developer Intern
Zenduty
02.2024 - 06.2024
- Enhanced the company’s internal dashboard used by employees and leadership by building a scalable Django Rest Framework backend with clean, modular APIs and a modern React + AntD frontend, improving performance, usability, and operational visibility across teams.
- Implemented Google-based Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication to streamline secure access and strengthen the dashboard’s identity workflow.
- Worked with Python, ReactJS, DRF, SQL, and relational databases to deliver a robust full-stack code.
Software Engineering Intern
Salesforce
05.2023 - 07.2023
- Worked on an internal automation project that streamlined nodepool provisioning on our Kubernetes clusters for internal tenants.
- Built the nodepool validation engine that verifies tenant requests against expected configuration and platform constraints.
- Implemented checks like instance type availability, ODCR existence, runtime compatibility, cluster readiness for node additions, IP address availability etc.
- Reduced manual verification effort and helped the team save ~40 hours per month.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Indian Institute of Information Technology
Allahabad06.2024
Skills
- Kubernetes management
- Kubernetes
- Containerization (Docker, containerd)
- Linux Systems & OS Fundamentals
- Networking (CNI, DNS, IPAM, load balancing)
- CI/CD: Jenkins, Spinnaker
- AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, ELB, Autoscaling)
- AWS Karpenter
- Data Structures & Algorithms
- C, C, Golang
- Cloud-native architecture
- Python development
- Distributed Systems Concepts
- Incident Response & On-Call Operations
- Shell Scripting
- Git, GitHub
- Puppet
- Cloud-Native Design Patterns
- Debugging & Performance Troubleshooting
- Automation engineering
- Performance optimization
- Resource planning
- Reliability
Accomplishments
1. Solved 1200+ DSA problems across GFG, LeetCode, Codeforces, and HackerEarth.
2. Secured 18th position among 280 participants in ICPC AlgoQueen.
3. Secured a global rank of 547 in Codechef STARTERS 12.
2. Secured 18th position among 280 participants in ICPC AlgoQueen.
3. Secured a global rank of 547 in Codechef STARTERS 12.
Personal Information
Hobbies: Teaching, Problem Solving, Sports, Gardening, Cooking
Timeline
Associate Member of Technical Staff
Salesforce
07.2024 - Current
Full Stack Developer Intern
Zenduty
02.2024 - 06.2024
Software Engineering Intern
Salesforce
05.2023 - 07.2023
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Indian Institute of Information Technology