Shruti C.

Independent Engineer — Cloud, DevOps and AI

Kanpur, India

Experience

Jul 2025 - Present
5 months

Independent Engineer — Cloud, DevOps and AI

  • Built a self-service, golden path on K8s for a fraud-detection flow in Python and Go
  • Unified GitOps for backend services and ML jobs with Terraform, Argo, Kustomize, and Kyverno
  • Engineered PCI-compliant CI/CD pipeline on EKS with HashiCorp Vault, enforcing confidential compute and policy-as-code for secure, encrypted secrets management
  • Drove full-stack observability for Go microservices via OpenTelemetry and SigNoz, enabling a single-pane view of metrics, traces, and logs for faster MTTR and real-time debugging
  • Built multi-cloud Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS and GCP with Route53 DNS failover, Redis, CloudSQL, and Consul, delivering scalable, highly available active-passive service discovery
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
2 years 5 months

Solutions Engineer

Uffizzi

  • Designed PoCs for automated multi-cloud developer environments using Kubernetes, Helm, and Skaffold, cutting provisioning from over five hours to under five minutes
  • Delivered GPU-accelerated CI integration for OpenTitan, reducing runtime from 40 minutes to 10 minutes
  • Guided Flagsmith through deep security concerns on GitHub OIDC; delivered a tailored proof of concept that led to adoption
  • Educated over 200 engineers via KubeCon EU demos on ephemeral environments and GitOps
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
1 month

DevOps Engineer

Continuous Delivery Foundation

  • Engineered a CloudEvents-based Jenkins plugin to standardize CI/CD triggers; enabled Jenkins as both event producer and consumer, driving interoperability across open source CI/CD tools
May 2021 - Nov 2022
1 year 7 months

Founding Cloud Engineer

Gander

  • Owned infrastructure strategy from MVP through Series A; built a fully serverless architecture on AWS, automated with Terraform
  • Designed and scaled secure media workflows using Lambda, S3, MediaConvert, DynamoDB, Cognito, and CloudFront powering customer-facing UGC features
  • Eliminated cold-start delays by migrating Node.js Lambdas to Quarkus native functions, cutting latency by 70% and infrastructure cost by 20%
  • Designed a Shopify widget embed system reducing merchant onboarding time to near zero

Summary

Solutions & Cloud Engineer with 3+ experience bringing cloud and DevOps expertise into customer wins—building secure microservice platforms, writing API-first docs and guides, presenting at conferences, and leading pre-sales POCs that convert.

Languages

English
Advanced

Education

Oct 2025 - Jun 2028

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati

B.Sc. (Hons.) · Data Science & Artificial Intelligence · Guwahati, India

Oct 2018 - Jun 2021

Kalamazoo College

B.A. · Computer Science & Physics · Kalamazoo, United States

Certifications & licenses

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Developer

Google Cloud: Cloud Engineer

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