Summary
Nila Prasad is a Site Reliability Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently driving reliability at Activision. She has a strong track record in AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes (Rancher/EKS) and CI/CD tooling—having improved Datadog alerting to cut costs 20% and evolved GitLab/ArgoCD pipelines for faster deployment. Comfortable across Windows and Linux environments, she pairs systems-level programming familiarity (C, C#, Go) with practical automation using Bash and PowerShell. Nila has led migrations and tooling rollouts, from standing up private GitLab and Rancher to automating AWS stacks, and she mentors engineers on internal infrastructure and incident practices. Her background in systems administration and on-call incident response gives her a pragmatic focus on uptime and operability, reducing on-call fatigue through process improvements. Based in Toronto, she combines a passion for open source and continuous learning with proven production impact at both mid-size and enterprise organizations.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario College Advanced Diploma, Computer Engineering, Ontario College Advanced Diploma, Computer Engineering at Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology
California Institute of Technology
OSSD, Computers, OSSD, Computers at Central Technical School
English, French