Kshitij Kumar
Bangalore
Summary
Dynamic Technical Team Lead with a proven track record at Nutanix Inc, specializing in API design, microservices, and cloud solutions. Expert in Python, Golang, and driving cross-functional team success. Achieved significant advancements in IPv6 integration and public cloud deployments, showcasing strong leadership and innovative problem-solving skills.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Team Lead
Nutanix Inc
Bengaluru
07.2024 - Current
- Led the design and development of management APIs (Swagger compliant), a gRPC controller microservice with a distributed job queue framework allowing scale worth thousands of concurrent requests.
- Developed a universal framework for enabling or disabling opt-in portfolio products, integrating NATS pub-sub for subscribing to such events.
- Leading the east-west IPv6 effort to bring Nutanix clusters and the management plane onto a dual-stack framework, paving the way for Nutanix customers' migration to the IPv6 network stack.
- Leading the proof of concept for deploying Nutanix clusters natively across public clouds and bare metal.
Member of Technical Staff - 3
Nutanix Inc
Bengaluru
02.2020 - 07.2024
- Took end-to-end ownership to strengthen the Nutanix Cluster (PE) - Management Plane (PC) trust domain federation, establishing a secure tunnel enabling data and config sync from clusters to the management plane.
- Worked on management plane (PC) lifecycle management operations: deployment, scale-out, upgrades, Microservice integration in existing monolith stack.
- Contributed significantly in key areas, i.e. Scale, Resource governance, and proposed immediate solutions to alleviate customer pain.
- Customer satisfaction - have been part of around 100s of on-calls and support cases, providing immediate as well as long-term relief to customers.
Member of Technical Staff - 2
Nutanix Inc
Bengaluru
08.2019 - 02.2020
- Worked on the Nutanix in-guest management solution, enabling seamless integration between virtual machines and the Nutanix DR solution.
- Developed key capabilities such as in-guest network and disk reconfigurations, in-guest backups, and syncing key guest I/O stats and metrics from VM to Nutanix DB for services and third parties to consume.
Education
Integrated Masters in Information Technology And Software Engineering - Information Technology
Indian Institute of Information Technology
Allahabad, India07-2019
Skills
- Programming: Proficient in Python and Golang, and familiar with C, C, and Java
- Frameworks and Tools: Apache Flink, Kafka, Airflow, Spring, Kubernetes, Docker, gRPC, Protobuf, NATS, REST
- Database: Familiar with PostgreSQL, Redis, Cassandra, and SQL Server
- Other: Distributed systems, object-oriented programming, multi-threading, Linux concepts
- Productivity and CI/CD: Bash, Jenkins, Git, Postman, IntelliJ, Maven, API, Agile, Jira automations
Accomplishments
- Won annual Nutanix Hackathon award in "Developer productivity" category (2024).
- Consistent top performer in multiple talent calibrations.
- Recognized by Support organization for "customer obsession" quality.
Timeline
Technical Team Lead
Nutanix Inc
07.2024 - Current
Member of Technical Staff - 3
Nutanix Inc
02.2020 - 07.2024
Member of Technical Staff - 2
Nutanix Inc
08.2019 - 02.2020
Integrated Masters in Information Technology And Software Engineering - Information Technology
Indian Institute of Information Technology
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