Akash Thakur
Sr. Networking TSE - Google Cloud
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAkash Thakur is a senior networking technical solutions engineer at Google Cloud with 11 years of experience blending network security, cloud operations, and automation. Based in Bengaluru and originally from Himachal Pradesh, he’s a Python-first practitioner who builds troubleshooting tools, diagnostic workflows, and training content for complex GCP networking products like GKE, Load Balancers, VPC, Cloud Armor and Interconnect. His background spans hands-on roles at Cisco and IBM where he designed hardened VPNs, IDS/IPS and automation frameworks (Ansible, Terraform, Python) to reduce MTTR and improve reliability. A frequent trainer, speaker and community maintainer since his student days, he pairs practical infosec research and pen-testing experience with production-grade cloud support. Outside work he’s an avid biker and self-styled “Geeky Rider,” keeping uptime high both for services and for his adventures.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Highschool, Highschool at Guru Nanak Mission Public School Paonta Sahib H.PBachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at SRM IST Chennai
English, Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Chinese
Github Skills (34)
monitors8
security7
proxies7
microservices7
golang6
kubernetes6
react5
consul5
tor-proxy5
anonymous5
api-management5
service-mesh4
testing4
circuit-breaker4
nomad4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zerocool443/Selenium-Python-Automation-Scripts
Nov 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
testingpen-testingbrowsingpentestingweb-browsing
zerocool443/akashthakur.me
Oct 2016 - Dec 2021
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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