Vishwanath Kamble — Site Reliability Engineer

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Experience in depth

Nine years building infrastructure at scale — from Wall Street trading floors to AI-powered enterprise platforms.

iManage

Site Reliability Engineer Specialist

Dec 2023 — Present

Chicago, IL

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GPU Infrastructure & AI Model Deployment

Deployed and managed GPU SKUs across old architecture, testing MIG profiles and multiple SKU configurations. Upgraded decommissioned GPUs with newer models, dramatically improving ML inference performance.

speed 300 → 12 req/sec

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Multi-Cluster AKS Orchestration

Led comprehensive upgrades of AKS, Istio, and Terraform providers across three distinct architectures. Deployed two new hub clusters from scratch for 3 environments and onboarded foundational code for our dev team.

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Observability & ECK Transformation

Developed comprehensive ECK resources — repos, dependent charts, service accounts with minimal permissions, and ArgoCD applications. Implemented Prometheus Push Gateway for ephemeral job metrics, eliminating blind spots in short-lived processes.

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OpenAI & AI Platform Enablement

Deployed GPT-4o models across all environments for Data Science teams. Provisioned managed deployments for production, configured Redis cache for ML data acceleration, and set up Grafana OpenAI dashboards.

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Reference Architecture Modernization

Redesigned ServiceBus module from per-team individual modules into a unified, reusable architecture. Created protected production branches with automated tagging workflows and fixed critical storage class retain policies.

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SRE Tooling & Automation

Engineered debug container image with curated troubleshooting tools, reducing MTTR. Built helm-diff PR scripts, AKS logshipper for audit logs, Vault troubleshooting scripts, and automated Azure Blob lifecycle management.

Instabase

Product / Site Reliability Engineer

Jun 2022 — Dec 2023

Remote

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Multi-Cloud Platform Deployment

Orchestrated the Instabase platform deployment across AWS, Azure, and GCP for three major enterprise clients. Standardized the Terraform modules to support diverse environments (OpenShift vs. Native Cloud), ensuring a consistent delivery pipeline regardless of the underlying infrastructure provider.

domain 3 Enterprise Clients

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S3 Storage Cost Optimization

Reduced S3 storage costs by 87% through implementing lifecycle management policies, versioning rules, and archiving dead buckets. This initiative shrank the storage footprint dramatically without impacting data availability for ongoing customer operations.

trending_down 235 TB → 77 TB

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Real-Time Alerting & EKS Upgrades

Built a Slack bot to monitor "zombie" sandboxes, identifying and decommissioning over 15 stale environments to eliminate cloud waste. Led critical EKS upgrades (1.21 → 1.23) and migrated storage classes from EBS to EFS, ensuring zero downtime for developer workflows.

delete_forever 15+ Envs Pruned

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Container Image & Security Cleanup

Designed a Python script to identify unused ECR images across active EKS clusters. Implemented ECR lifecycle policies for automated cleanup and addressed vulnerabilities by upgrading base images, significantly reducing the attack surface.

delete_sweep 140K → 2K Images

Citadel

Sr. Infrastructure Engineer & SME Linux

Jan 2020 — May 2022

Chicago, IL / London, UK

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Automation at Scale

Automated ticket handling on Jira and ServiceNow — creating, updating, and closing over 10,000 tickets in 5 months. Engineered scripts to fix YAML config errors across hundreds of VMs, saving hundreds of hours of manual engineering time.

confirmation_number 10,000+ tickets

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Linux SME Program & Mentorship

Enabled the team's expansion to a 24/7 "Follow-the-Sun" schedule by standardizing global knowledge. Authored 80+ Wiki pages of deep-dive troubleshooting guides and SOPs. Personally trained 7 new hires across Austin, Chicago, London, and Hong Kong—traveling internationally to ensure consistent operational standards.

public Global Training Lead

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Server Hardware Lifecycle

Designed a comprehensive lifecycle tracking system that interfaced with datacenter inventory APIs. This automation proactively flagged warranty expirations and end-of-life assets, eliminating manual spreadsheet toil and ensuring 100% compliance with hardware refresh policies for the global fleet.

timer 90% time saved

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K8s Rollout & Config Hygiene

Served as the Operations liaison for the "Trailblazer" Kubernetes deployment. Developed automated sanitation scripts to enforce naming conventions and data sovereignty—programmatically detecting and moving misfiled server YAMLs (e.g., relocating JPN assets from NYC folders) to their correct datacenter paths.

support_agent Trailblazer L1 Support

Citadel

Infrastructure Operations Developer & Intern

Jun 2016 — Dec 2019

Chicago, IL / New York, NY

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Luna — Infra Management Platform

Built the central tooling hub adopted by all infrastructure teams (Windows, Network, Storage). Features included a firm-wide "Server Lookup" (locating specific racks/cabinets) and Zabbix API integration to automate maintenance windows, preventing false alerts during patching.

groups 100% Team Adoption

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Network Monitoring & Datacenter Ops

Developed a custom Python application monitoring over 500 network devices (Cisco, Palo Alto, Arista, Meraki). The tool utilized REST APIs to poll device health in real-time, providing a unified dashboard for internet circuits, VPN tunnels, and telecom status across global offices.

router 500+ Devices

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Automated Incident Response

Scripted an automated BGP peering check that detected circuit outages instantly. The system auto-created ServiceNow tickets and emailed ISPs with the exact Circuit ID and downtime logs, drastically reducing Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and eliminating manual vendor triage.

bolt Auto-Vendor Ticketing

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Night Shift Operations

Managed the entire global infrastructure solo for 12 months, ensuring uptime for critical trading systems during off-hours. Following this tenure, authored the night-shift training curriculum and mentored two junior engineers to expand the rotation into a sustainable team.

person Sole Operator (1 Year)

Vishwanath
Kamble

Experience in depth

Technical skills

Academic background

Beyond the day job

VishwanathKamble

Experience in depth

Technical skills

Academic background

Beyond the day job

Vishwanath
Kamble