About

Karthikeya Viswanath is an experienced SRE and DevOps Engineer with over five years of industry experience in building and deploying large-scale production systems in high-performance and cost-effective environments. Currently employed at Facebook as a Production Engineer, Karthikeya possesses advanced knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, monitoring and CI/CD systems, and Linux internals. Karthikeya's expertise lies in container orchestration, modern DevOps practices, debugging production issues in high-stress on-call situations, and chasing down performance bugs. He has a proven track record of managing infrastructure relied on by several Fortune 500 companies, handling over 1 million testing sessions daily. He led and managed the DevOps team, setting goals, milestones, timelines, dependencies, and ensuring SLA compliance. He also reworked processes and streamlined cross-team handshakes to reduce firefighting hours by 15%. Karthikeya is highly skilled in mentoring and guiding junior engineers into senior roles through technical, project level, and career support. He has given over ten company-wide talks to align teams for large cross-team projects and build domain knowledge. He has also set up and managed over 20 bare metal Kubernetes clusters end-to-end in multiple data centers across the world. He containerized VM workloads to provide immutable deploys and reduced MTTR by 99% on critical services. Aside from his current role, Karthikeya has also worked as a freelance consultant at Hyperverge, where he built a Quality Control dashboard to monitor a stream of over 6,00,000 API calls a day. He created and deployed backend services with CI/CD, RBAC, and tooling to control and manage the QC dashboard. Karthikeya holds a Master's degree in Biomedical/Medical Engineering and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, both from IIT. His tech stack includes SRE, test, DevOps, AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, infra, and Backend. With over 5.35 years of relevant experience, Karthikeya is a highly skilled and knowledgeable SRE and DevOps Engineer with a proven track record of success.