Summary
Nishanth Aluhonnu is a Software Engineer 3 at Cisco with nine years’ experience building and modernizing observability and infrastructure systems. He specializes in backend development for distributed systems, having migrated monolithic monitoring stacks to microservices and deployed HA observability tooling across private OpenStack and public cloud using Terraform, Nomad, Consul, Vault, Ansible and GitLab CI/CD. His work spans logging, metrics and alerting platforms—including custom internal alert dashboards—and he has practical experience integrating Prometheus, Alertmanager and AWS services for centralized metric and alerting solutions. A curious, fast learner with an MTech in Computer Software Engineering and a BE in ECE from RVCE, he combines hands-on operational deployment skills with a strong systems-thinking approach that surfaces reliability issues early (he even built chaos experiments during internship work).
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at R. V. College of Engineering, Bangalore
English, Kannada, Hindi