Abhishek B
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbhishek B is a Software Development Engineer II with five years of experience building secure, scalable systems across AWS and Amazon teams, currently focused on proactive security at AWS. He has driven automation and CI/CD improvements for flagship open-source projects like EKS Anywhere and EKS Distro—adding testing, cluster configuration features, and robust pipeline signal handling—while also owning internal systems that process petabytes of data for finance and privacy enforcement. His background spans data governance for large-model training, Alexa customer-data protection, and automation of critical accounting workflows, demonstrating a blend of security, DevOps, and data engineering. Comfortable operating end-to-end, he combines hands-on contributions to widely used Kubernetes tooling with production-grade systems that enforce compliance and trust.
5 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Engineering Summer Program, High School, Engineering Summer Program at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School, High School at South Brunswick High SchoolUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Bengali, Hindi
Github Skills (16)
kubernetes10
automation10
bash10
docker10
kops10
go10
automations10
aws10
dockers10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
amazon-eks8
kubernetes-cluster8
k8s8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aws/eks-anywhere
Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
Run Amazon EKS on your own infrastructure 🚀
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:33 reviews, 7 commits, 6 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Abhishek contributed to the automation and testing of the EKS Anywhere project. They added new tests for node upgrades and implemented improvements to the existing testing framework. The user also made modifications to the CI/CD pipeline by integrating signal handling to warn users about manual interruptions. Furthermore, they introduced features related to cluster configuration, incorporating support for CIDR blocks within the Docker provider and support for adding taints on control plane nodes.
kubernetes-deploymentamazon-ekstinkerbellhelmamazon
aws/eks-distro
Dec 2020 - Jul 2021
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
DevOps EngineerContributions:64 reviews, 20 commits, 25 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Abhishek primarily contributed to the automation and configuration of the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline for the `aws/eks-distro` repository, using tools like `kops`. Their work involved modifying scripts to create, configure, and validate Kubernetes clusters, particularly focusing on integration with AWS services. They also made changes related to testing the cluster and its functionalities by implementing Sonobuoy. These changes facilitated the automation of cluster deployments and the verification of their conformance.
securekubernetes-serviceamazon-ekskubernetes-deploymentclusters
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