Puneet Kandhari
Sr EM SRE at Optro
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPuneet Kandhari is a seasoned SRE and engineering leader with 12 years of experience designing resilient infrastructure, performance-focused data pipelines, and AI model delivery platforms. Currently a Senior EM SRE at Optro, he blends hands-on SRE work with AI infra and model deployment, having previously led Kubernetes platform and developer productivity initiatives at Yahoo and StackPath. His background spans infrastructure automation for hardware and cloud, devops, and internal developer platforms, demonstrating a knack for turning complex operational needs into scalable, repeatable systems. Puneet holds a Master's in Electrical Engineering from USC and brings cross-domain expertise—from low-level infrastructure to ML model delivery—plus a history of managing teams through platform transitions in large enterprises.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Electrical Engineering, Masters, Electrical Engineering at University of Southern CaliforniaHigh School, Sciences, High School, Sciences at Birla Vidya NiketanBS, Electonics Engineering, BS, Electonics Engineering at Delhi College of Engineering
Github Skills (110)
python10
ubuntu10
automation10
infrastructure10
remote-execution10
apache-http-server10
package-repository10
infrastructure-management10
scale10
event-stream10
configuration-management10
iot10
collections10
salt10
docker10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack-formulas/newrelic-formula
Jun 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:3 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 10 months
puneetk/salt
Jun 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:14 pushes in 1 year 2 months
management-systeminfrastructure-automationdevopsansibleinfrastructure
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