Anand Sharma
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Cisco Systems
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAnand Sharma is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and IT architect with over 20 years of experience (11 years in senior engineering roles) driving enterprise DevOps and software delivery transformation at scale within Cisco. He designs and ships developer-centric platforms and event-driven microservices that moved thousands of teams to mature CI/CD practices, cut deployment times to minutes, and measurably improved test coverage and release metrics. Anand is a recognized technical thought leader who regularly presents strategic recommendations to C-suite leaders and champions adoption of tooling across 25K+ employees. He combines hands-on system architecture (Java SpringBoot, Kafka, Redis, Argo) with pragmatic productization—launching enterprise release orchestrators, code analytics, and distribution solutions that reduced cloud costs. Based in Austin, he nerds out on operations and is actively exploring LLMs, bringing a curiosity for cutting-edge AI to long-standing expertise in developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityBachelor of Technology Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (162)
minecraft10
kubernetes10
minishift10
bootstrap10
minikube10
spinnaker10
monitoring9
continuous-delivery9
golang9
heatmap9
cli9
shell9
powerline9
hyper-v9
proxy9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
indrayam/dotfiles
May 2016 - Mar 2026
Contributions:346 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 11 months
indrayam/spinnaker-the-hard-way
Sep 2018 - Nov 2022
Understanding Spinnaker Concepts, Installation, Configuration and Operations
Contributions:70 commits, 4 PRs, 65 pushes in 4 years 2 months
minecraftunderstandinginstallationspinnaker
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