Nikunj Vaidya
Engineering Leader AI Networks & Systems at Cerebras
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikunj Vaidya is an engineering leader with over 20 years of technical and business experience building customer-focused networking, virtualization, DevOps/SRE, cloud and 5G solutions, now leading AI Networks & Systems at Cerebras. He combines hands-on architecture and CI/CD design—having delivered large-scale telco CI/CD and virtualized 5G microservice platforms on Kubernetes and cloud—with people-first leadership that mentors engineers into high-performing, empathetic teams. Nikunj has led DevOps communities of hundreds, driven pilot-to-production transformations, and instituted observability and DORA-driven processes to shorten MTTR and improve release quality. He brings a unique blend of telco-grade systems experience from Cisco, Brocade and Dell, plus cloud modernization expertise from AWS, enabling pragmatic trade-offs between performance, cost and operational resilience. Outside of work he recharges with long hikes, running and Hindustani classical music, reflecting a disciplined yet creative approach to solving hard engineering problems.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Technology Management, Master's Degree, Technology Management at University of PhoenixBachelor's Degree, Engineering, Electronics, Bachelor's Degree, Engineering, Electronics at University of Mumbai
Github Skills (23)
aws-services9
amazon9
eclipse8
php8
dynamodb8
cd8
cicd8
aws7
directories7
aws-lambda6
java6
agent5
reviewer4
aws-cdk4
codebuild3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nvaidya1/amazon-eks-cdk-blue-green-cicd
Apr 2020 - May 2021
Repo to build CI/CD pipeline for Blue/Green deployments on EKS using CDK
Contributions:49 commits, 72 pushes in 1 year 1 month
cdcicd
nvaidya1/JavaApp
Dec 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:5 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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