About

Sijo Franklin Thankarose is a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineer with over 8 years of experience in building cost-effective microservices architectures on AWS and Kubernetes. He is highly focused on security and has extensive experience in infrastructure hardening and defining IAM controls and RBACs. Sijo has worked on various in-trend DevOps tools and has also built customized tools using Golang and Python. He is experienced in regulating and enforcing the controls and security of an organization for SOC2 Compliance and Certification. Currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Walmart, Sijo has previously worked as a Lead Software Engineer at Fidelity and as a Site Reliability Engineer at Aqfer. He has a Master of Science (M.S.) in Software Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Anna University. He also has a High School degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from St. Ann's Matriculation Higher Secondary School. Sijo's tech stack includes AWS, SRE, Kubernetes, DevOps, Python, Golang, Microservices, Docker, ECS, Ansible, Spark, Javascript, MySQL, MongoDB, Hadoop, Jenkins, Flask, Web, and Apache Hive. He is highly skilled in designing systems for proactive alerting and monitoring to reduce the MTTD and MTTR. With 6.87 years of relevant experience, Sijo is a highly sought-after professional in the field of DevOps, SRE, and AWS. He is a dedicated and passionate professional who is always looking for ways to improve the performance and security of the systems he works on.