Abhay Krishna
Lead at AMAZON DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (INDIA) PRIVATE LIMITED
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAbhay Krishna is a lead engineer at Amazon Development Centre in Chennai with nine years of experience bridging production engineering, DevOps, and catalog quality for e-commerce systems. With a B.Tech in Computer Science from SRM University, he has moved from customer-facing roles into technical leadership, driving automation and CI/CD improvements that reduce release friction. He contributes to high-profile open-source Amazon projects like eks-anywhere and eks-distro, adding CLI features, release tooling, and automation for Kubernetes components and infrastructure provisioning. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he blends hands-on backend and DevOps work with process-driven improvements to deliver measurable quality gains in production. A detail-oriented collaborator, he often focuses on reliability enhancements such as retry logic and build automation that quietly prevent outages.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at SRM UniversityVelammal Residential School - India
Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
docker10
kubernetes-cluster10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
go10
aws10
build-automation10
kubernetes-pods10
automations10
devops10
kubernetes-deployment9
k8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
aws/eks-anywhere
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Run Amazon EKS on your own infrastructure 🚀
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 releases, 657 reviews, 235 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Abhay primarily contributed to the development of EKS-A CLI, tests, and release tooling. Their work involved adding code for the CLI, writing tests, and modifying build scripts. The contributions also included the addition of several functionalities for vsphere machine configurations and updates to S3 links and repo references. Further work involved the addition of CRI tools and etcdadm archives to the bundle manifest and the implementation of retry logic for EC2 instance creation.
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aws/eks-distro
Nov 2020 - Oct 2022
Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D) is a Kubernetes distribution based on and used by Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to create reliable and secure Kubernetes clusters.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:155 reviews, 31 commits, 66 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Abhay's contributions primarily focus on automating build processes and infrastructure setup within the EKS Distro project. They added build steps for various Kubernetes CSI projects, CNI, and Kubernetes releases. The user also created scripts for kops setup, added documentation, and configured the PR bot. They implemented and maintained aspects of the CI/CD pipeline.
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