Ashvitha S
Senior Software Engineer at HashiCorp
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAshvitha S is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building reliable, large-scale infrastructure and observability platforms, currently driving the agentic AI platform and telemetry strategy at HashiCorp. She blends backend and DevOps expertise—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like HashiCorp Consul, where she implemented HCP telemetry and Envoy metrics integrations—with hands-on platform work across Kubernetes, Envoy, and OpenTelemetry. Her career includes scaling cloud identity, shipping production-grade service mesh observability, and evolving global edge networks at Shopify and Wealthsimple, demonstrating strong architectural influence through RFCs and ADRs. Ashvitha is also a mentor and technical leader who reduces on-call toil via automation, dependency management, and centralized runbooks. Based in Montreal, she pairs pragmatic engineering with an interest in emerging AI standards like the Model Context Protocol, positioning her at the intersection of infrastructure reliability and agentic AI.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at McGill University
Tamil, French, English
Github Skills (15)
env10
service-mesh10
consul10
go10
envoyproxy10
telemetry10
convoy10
devops9
cloud-infrastructure9
api8
cicd8
api-design8
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
service-discovery7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/consul
Mar 2023 - Jan 2024
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:287 reviews, 40 PRs, 316 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ashvitha contributed significantly to the integration of HCP telemetry features within the Consul project, focusing on Envoy proxy metrics. This includes implementing configurations for collecting and sending metrics to the HCP platform and adding tests for verifying the functionality. The user also worked on setting up telemetry collector configurations, ensuring that metrics are flushed at a specified interval and addressing potential issues such as 4XX errors. The changes span code related to Envoy configuration and HCP client interactions.
api-gatewayecsgolangcenterdistributed
hashicorp/consul-telemetry-collector
Aug 2023 - May 2024
consul-telemetry-collector receives metrics from Envoy proxies in a Consul service mesh and exports them to HCP and other OTLP compliant endpoint
Contributions:35 reviews, 34 PRs, 3 pushes in 9 months
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