Shrinivas Katti

Experience

1. Opstree Global

   Bengaluru · Aug 2023 — Present

   clientsSharechatGojekJio

   1. AI Infrastructure Engineer

      2025 — Present
      • ▸Production RAG assistant over RCAs and ADRs — ~45% faster incident resolution
      • ▸LLM observability and evaluation scaffolding across multi-tenant Kubernetes
      • ▸MCP tooling and eval harnesses for internal AI services

   2. Platform Engineer / Sr. DevOps Specialist

      Aug 2023 — 2025
      • ▸Self-service infrastructure portal on Backstage + Config Connector — ~60% less manual toil
      • ▸40% cloud cost reduction via CUDs, Spot and autoscaling, with HA failover so nothing broke
      • ▸Teleport zero-trust access replacing bastion hosts; Workload Identity and Binary Authorization
      • ▸Terraform/Terragrunt with Atlantis for peer-reviewed, audit-ready GitOps
      • ▸Org-level GCP IAM, custom roles and Org Policy constraints; mentoring junior engineers

2. Techflow Engineers Pvt Ltd

   Mumbai · Oct 2021 — Feb 2023

   1. DevOps Engineer

      Oct 2021 — Feb 2023
      • ▸Linux administration across 30+ RHEL/Ubuntu servers; Kubernetes with Istio and canary releases
      • ▸CI/CD on Jenkins, Spinnaker and GitLab CI; 15+ automation scripts, ~40% less manual ops
      • ▸Multi-stage Spinnaker pipelines enabling blue-green deploys for 10+ services
      • ▸99.9% production uptime on 24/7 on-call; MTTD cut ~35% via Cloud Monitoring alerting

Selected Work

• Cloud Cost Reduction Programme

  ↗

  Took 40% out of a production GCP bill without trading away availability.

  -40%

  cost

  zero

  downtime added

• CI Quality Gate at Scale

  ↗

  A parallel, advisory-first quality gate fronting a 200+ repository estate.

  200+

  repos

  -60%

  gate time

  advisory

  rollout

• Self-Service Infrastructure Provisioning

  ↗

  A single-click developer portal for infrastructure that cut manual toil by ~60%.

  -60%

  manual toil

  peer-reviewed

  changes

• RAG Knowledge Assistant for Ops

  ↗

  A production RAG chatbot over RCAs, ADRs and onboarding docs — ~45% faster resolution.

  -45%

  resolution time

  production

  status

• Onboarding Assistant over Company Docs

  ↗

  A chatbot that reads the internal documentation so new joiners don't have to find it first.

  faster

  ramp-up

  cited

  answers

• HR Workflow Automation & 360 Feedback

  ↗

  Quarterly 360 feedback that runs itself, and turns free-text comments into themes a manager can act on.

  quarterly

  cadence

  automated

  chasing

• Zero-Trust Access Migration

  ↗

  Deleted the bastion hosts. Every VM, cluster and pipeline behind MFA.

  0

  bastion hosts

  MFA + least-priv

  access

• Observability Across 50+ Microservices

  ↗

  Distributed tracing and real-time metrics across 50+ services — and 30% less alert noise.

  50+

  services

  -30%

  alert noise

• Event-Driven Self-Healing

  ↗

  Pub/Sub and Cloud Functions pipelines that resolve 80% of recurring incidents unattended.

  80%

  incidents automated

  most

  pages avoided

• On-Prem to GCP Migration

  ↗

  Eight production workloads moved to GCP with zero data loss.

  8

  workloads

  zero

  data loss

  <2h

  downtime / service

Technical Skills

Cloud

GCP (primary) · AWS · Oracle Cloud · Tencent Cloud

GCP Services

GKE · Cloud Run · Pub/Sub · Cloud Functions · Cloud Build · VPC · SCC

Containers

Kubernetes (GKE/EKS) · Docker · Helm · Kustomize · Istio · Envoy

IaC & Config

Terraform · Terragrunt · Ansible · Atlantis · Config Connector

CI/CD & GitOps

GitLab CI · ArgoCD · Spinnaker · Jenkins · Azure DevOps · GitHub Actions

Developer Platform

Backstage · BuildPiper · Self-service portals · Golden paths

Observability

New Relic APM · VictoriaMetrics · Prometheus · Grafana · ELK Stack · OpenTelemetry

Security

Teleport · Cloud Armor WAF · VPC Service Controls · Workload Identity · Binary Auth · mTLS

Data & Messaging

PostgreSQL · Redis · Kafka · Pub/Sub · Qdrant

AI & Automation

RAG pipelines · LLM integration · Cast AI · ScaleOps · n8n · MCP

Languages

Python · Java · Node.js · Go · Bash · Shell · SQL

Education & Languages

Bachelor of Engineering

KLE MSSCET, Belgaum · 2019

Kannada

Native

English

Professional

Hindi

Fluent

Marathi

Conversational

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