Ayush Sobti
Sr Staff Architect at Box
Tracy, California, United States
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Top SchoolAyush Sobti is a Sr Staff Architect and seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud-native platforms. At Box he has led PaaS and infrastructure initiatives that run 500+ microservices and tens of thousands of pods, driving developer experience improvements that cut onboarding LOC by over 70% and enabling zonal/regional failovers in under 20 minutes. Previously a founding engineer on Brex’s Communications team, he designed systems that dramatically reduced subscription data and sped up lookups, and earlier owned Box’s monitoring pipeline, scaling it tenfold to 1M+ pps. An active open-source contributor, he originated kube-monkey, a Kubernetes implementation of Chaos Monkey, demonstrating a practical focus on resilience and automated disruption testing. Based in Tracy, CA, he blends hands-on Go and systems work with strategic technical leadership across private and public cloud environments.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Drexel University
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asobti/kube-monkey
Dec 2016 - Oct 2020
An implementation of Netflix's Chaos Monkey for Kubernetes clusters
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 4 reviews, 90 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ayush's primary contribution involved the initial codebase creation for kube-monkey, focusing on core functionalities. This is evident through the initial commit of code for key components like deployments, chaos management, and configuration, showcasing a foundational role in the project. The code differences reveal the user's work in defining the application's architecture and core logic, including interacting with Kubernetes API objects to implement the chaos monkey functionalities. This includes defining data structures, functions and logic to identify and terminate pods, using Go to interact with the Kubernetes API.
kubernetes-clusternetflix-chaos-monkeykuberneteschaos-monkeygo
asobti/kube-applier
Apr 2017 - Jan 2025
kube-applier enables automated deployment and declarative configuration for your Kubernetes cluster.
Contributions:11 pushes, 5 branches in 7 years 10 months
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