About

Nivathan Athiganoor Somasundharam is a highly skilled Cloud Computing and DevOps enthusiast with a passion for learning new technologies. With over 5 years of experience in the field, he has honed his skills in various Cloud computing technologies and DevOps practices, including Infrastructure as a code, Public cloud Architectures, Containerization and Orchestration, CI/CD, Monitoring and Logging. Nivathan is proficient in strategically architecting Cloud Infrastructure and has several certifications to his name, including HashiCorp certified Terraform Associate, AWS certified Solution Architect, AWS certified Developer, AWS certified SysOps Administrator, and CNCF certified Kubernetes Administrator. He has also made significant contributions to various open-source projects, including the carbon-black-adapter-for-harbor, which he built while working as a Senior DevOps Engineer at VMware. Currently, Nivathan works as a Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Flexport, where he continues to build upon his expertise in Cloud computing and DevOps practices. He has also worked as a DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes at 8x8, where he designed and developed Kubernetes Infrastructure on top of public cloud, built automation tools for creating cloud infrastructure components using Python and Terraform, and created CI/CD tools to deploy applications on Kubernetes environment. Nivathan's educational background includes a Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science from Texas A&M University-Kingsville, a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Information Technology from Anna University, and a Certificate in Product Management from Product School. His technical skills include infra, AWS, Kubernetes, DevOps, Terraform, CI/CD, Microservices, and Python. Overall, Nivathan is an accomplished and dedicated professional with a wealth of experience in Cloud computing and DevOps practices. He is always eager to learn new technologies and is committed to delivering high-quality results for his clients and employers.