Sakthi Vetrivel
Founder & CEO at kinetic.ai
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSakthi Vetrivel is a founder and product-focused engineering leader with a decade of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer tools from both engineering and product angles. Based in San Francisco, he launched kinetic.ai after leading cloud initiatives at Microsoft where he shipped Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Service Operator (enabling Kubernetes to manage Azure resources), and security features for AKS serving high-security customers. He blends hands-on backend contributions—such as KeyVault and SQL integrations in the Azure Service Operator open-source project—with product strategy and cross-company partnerships. A former Arbuckle Leadership Fellow at Stanford GSB and Caltech student leader, he brings coaching and stakeholder alignment skills that scale teams and change programs. Sakthi’s background spans software internships to senior product roles, showing a consistent pattern of turning complex hybrid-cloud requirements into practical, secure solutions. He’s equally comfortable writing core integration code and steering go-to-market execution for platform products.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyThe Overlake SchoolMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Stanford University
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Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
azure10
go10
api10
microsoft-azure10
apidoc10
kubernetes-pods10
sql9
cloud-infrastructure8
infrastructure8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-service-operator
May 2020 - Dec 2020
Azure Service Operator allows you to create Azure resources using kubectl
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 28 commits, 10 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Sakthi primarily focused on implementing and modifying core backend logic related to Azure resource management within the Kubernetes environment. Contributions involved deepcopy functions, API management, keyvault integration, and SQL database management functionalities. The changes indicate a focus on integrating Azure services with Kubernetes, as evidenced by modifications to keyvault and SQL database related resources.
kubernetes-operatorsazure-resourceskubectloperatorkubernetes
sakthi-vetrivel/azure-docs
Jun 2018 - Oct 2021
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
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