Summary
Nipun Ahuja is a senior engineering leader specializing in cloud-native, AI-first platforms, with a decade of experience delivering scalable infrastructure. He currently leads Fanatics' Cloud Engineering organization as Senior Engineering Manager, guiding platform teams through AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform-driven deployments and cost-conscious, secure architectures. Previously he directly built and mentored teams as Engineering Manager Cloud and as a lead Software Engineer, delivering automation for service discovery, secret management, DNS, proxies, API gateways, and telemetry in Golang and Python. His work spans building tooling to interface with AWS and Kubernetes APIs, designing cross-environment deployment workflows (VMs and containers), and driving resilient, observable systems via New Relic and Prometheus, as well as Game Day style resilience exercises. He designs and ships build pipelines in GitLab, mentors junior engineers, and champions scalable, auditable cloud infrastructure. He holds an MS in Software Engineering from San Jose State University and a BTech in Computer Science, and is based in California.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, First Division, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, First Division at APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University
San José State University
English, Hindi