Summary
Ashok Nagaraj is a Principal Engineer specializing in Big Data and MLOps with eight years of focused experience building production-ready, containerized data platforms and agentic AI applications for corporate functions. He has driven platform engineering and Kubernetes PaaS initiatives at Cisco and now leads a CoE at Synopsys creating reproducible open-source big data solutions for on-prem and Kubernetes environments. Comfortable spanning build automation, CI/CD, analytics, and stateful application governance, he brings hands-on expertise from Django/Flask tooling to ELK, time-series analytics, and Netconf/YANG automation. Known within teams as a pragmatic toolsmith, he combines deep systems knowledge with a penchant for operationalizing ML workflows and capacity-aware platform design.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
12th PCMC, 12th PCMC at Govt PU College; Chikmagalur
BE Information Science, BE Information Science at Malnad College of Engineering
English, Kannada, Hindi