Girish Shankarraman
Director Of Engineering at PagerDuty
Bengaluru, Karnataka, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolGirish Shankarraman is a seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years of experience building and scaling distributed SaaS and PaaS platforms, currently serving as Director of Engineering at PagerDuty. He has repeatedly grown and led globally distributed teams—hiring 25+ engineers and mentoring managers and tech leads—to deliver high-throughput systems that handle billions of real-time notifications and millions of subscribers with four 9s reliability. His background spans cloud-native networking, edge performance, and workflow platforms from roles at AWS (Global Accelerator) and VMware (NSX Multi-Cloud), where he improved latency, routing, and observability for large-scale customers. Known for combining strategic planning with hands-on technical execution, he also brings an engineer’s curiosity—“loves the tech stuff”—and a track record of launching externally visible tools like AWS’s Speed Test to benchmark real-world performance.
5 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering at University of Colorado at BoulderBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Communications Engineering at University of Mumbai
English
Github Skills (42)
kubernetes10
ebpf10
sdn10
windows10
kubernetes-networking10
cni10
virtual-network10
networking10
security10
openstack10
hybrid-cloud10
multi-cluster10
network10
network-security10
cloud-native10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
girishshankaran/docs
Nov 2022 - Jul 2023
Unified docs repository for Calico and Tigera
Contributions:253 pushes, 107 branches in 8 months
calico
girishshankaran/my-website
Aug 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:43 PRs, 34 pushes, 37 branches in 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.