Summary
Nikhil JSK is a Data Scientist and former Staff SRE with eight years of experience marrying hyperscale infrastructure engineering and generative AI to drive reliability and sustainability in enterprise asset management. At IBM India Software Labs he applies ML and agentic AI on the Maximo portfolio to shift maintenance from reactive to predictive, notably building an AI-driven Reliability Strategy Model (FMEA) and tools like Upgrade Companion that automate Kubernetes upgrades via watsonx.ai and GitOps. His background in replatforming large Kubernetes fleets, enforcing Zero Trust, and eliminating thousands of hours of manual toil gives him a rare ability to ground AI models in real-world operational constraints. A pragmatic innovator, he holds five filed patents and 15+ publications across cloud and AI, and has led automation that saved hours per cluster while preserving 100% availability. Based in Bengaluru, he blends deep systems-level expertise (CKA, control planes) with NLP, generative and agentic AI—often designing models that not only predict failures but orchestrate remediation.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Elementary School, Elementary School at Nalanda Vidya Nikethan,Vijayawada
High School, High School at Ravindra Bharathi School, Visakhapatnam
Intermediate, Maths, Physics and Chemistry, Intermediate, Maths, Physics and Chemistry at Narayana Junior College
Bachelor of Technology (Honors) , Computer Science and engineering, Bachelor of Technology (Honors) , Computer Science and engineering at Lovely Professional University
Telugu, English, Hindi