About

Shishir Khandelwal is a highly skilled and dedicated DevOps engineer with over 3 years of experience in the industry. He started his DevOps journey while still in college and has since gained expertise in working with Kubernetes and AWS. Shishir is a 1x Kubernetes and 2x AWS certified engineer, having cleared the official exams on his first attempt with near-perfect scores. Currently working as a software engineer at PayPal, Shishir has previously worked as a DevOps engineer at SourceFuse Technologies, where he was responsible for creating and maintaining multiple CI/CD pipelines on AWS Code Pipeline and Jenkins, improving build times by setting up Jenkins with dynamic worker nodes, setting up and maintaining organization-wide Kubernetes clusters, and experimenting with open-source implementations of Postgres and Redis databases. Apart from his work, Shishir is passionate about exploring new DevOps tools and approaches, regularly sharing his insights and findings through articles on LinkedIn and other blogging sites. He has also been working with cloud-native tools like Elastic Stack, Terraform, Vault, Istio, and Consul while exploring and learning more about them. Shishir holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, and has also completed a course in Computer Science from InterviewBit Academy. He is constantly upskilling himself and exploring other interesting avenues in the industry, such as Cloud Native tools and Databases, and has even played around with Chaos engineering. With his hard work and dedication, Shishir aims to become a world-class DevOps engineer and make a mark in this field which he absolutely enjoys working in. If you want to talk about anything related to DevOps engineering, databases, cloud-native tools, AWS, or Kubernetes, you can get in touch with him through LinkedIn or email.