NitishÂ
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorNitish Krishna is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling, currently focused on advancing human-agent collaboration in software creation. He has driven platform reliability and scalability at companies like Rippling, X, and Cruise, where he managed large Kubernetes fleets, wrote controllers, and authored custom Terraform providers to automate thousands of cloud resources. His background spans networking and multi-cloud orchestration from Juniper/Contrail to hands-on GKE, monitoring, and backup systems, reflecting deep operational expertise. Nitish pairs strong systems engineering with pragmatic tooling that improves developer and operator productivity across lifecycle workflows. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from USC and brings a history of shipping production-grade integrations that bridge low-level networking and modern cloud platforms. A less obvious strength is his track record of translating academic research and legacy datacenter practices into scalable, containerized operational solutions.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (3)
r-package8
mortar5
swirl5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
USCCACS/ThermalTools
Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:47 commits, 28 pushes in 2 months
nbaradwaj91/learning-python-the-hard-way
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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