About

Sashank Agarwal is a forward-thinking Software Engineer with over 3 years of experience in the IT industry. He is currently working as a Software Engineer 2 at Intuit where he is part of the Kubernetes Service team that manages cloud infrastructure and platform. Sashank is responsible for managing observability, alerting, and monitoring of health checks. He is also an open-source contributor to keikoproj, mainly alert-manager and active-monitor. Both projects are used by all the clusters of Intuit and are vital components in achieving high availability and autoscaling of applications. Sashank is also involved in conducting technical interview rounds and is part of Intuit's university hiring team. Prior to Intuit, Sashank worked as an Associate Software Engineer at Red Hat where he managed large-scale logs in OpenShift using EFK stack. He built Kubernetes operators to ease the deployment and management of logging in GoLang and worked on providing Loki as an alternate log store to Elasticsearch. Sashank also created a storage calculator for Loki that predicts how much logs are expected in 24 hours and recommends resource requirements for the LokiStack. He was also involved in developing Elasticsearch plugins and Prometheus. Sashank has also worked as a Software Engineer at Yellow.ai where he built chatbots using NodeJS for websites, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Google Assistant. Some of the chatbots he developed include Simpl, Manyavar, and SingerSL. He also mentored new joiners. Sashank has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Ramaiah Institute of Technology. He is fluent in Golang, Java, and Python programming languages and has expertise in Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, and backend development. He is a proud team player focused on achieving project objectives with speed and accuracy. To know more about Sashank, visit his website at https://sashank058.github.io/SashankResume/.