Sandeep Parikh
VP, Production Engineering at Bookend AI
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSandeep Parikh is a seasoned production engineering leader with 15 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and developer-focused experiences, currently serving as VP of Production Engineering at Bookend AI. He has led cross-functional cloud re-platforming and reliability efforts at Verily and Google, and scaled developer relations and product capabilities at Qualcomm and VMware. Sandeep blends hands-on DevOps and backend engineering—evidenced by contributions to Kubernetes-based distributed load testing—with strategic product management to ship self-service infrastructure and secure software supply chains. He’s skilled at growing teams and developer communities, having built DevRel programs, open source onboarding, and practitioner-focused content across large organizations. Based in San Diego, he pairs deep technical fluency in cloud and containers with a knack for translating platform complexity into usable developer experiences. An early career mix of research, startups, and engineering gives him a practical curiosity for performance, observability, and scalable systems.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Engineering, Masters Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinBachelors Computer Science in Engineering, Bachelors Computer Science in Engineering at University of Michigan
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Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
docker10
locust10
python10
loadtest10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
load-testing10
gcp9
bash8
cicd7
rest-api6
mongodb6
aggregation-framework6
user-profile6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/distributed-load-testing-using-kubernetes
May 2015 - May 2018
Distributed load testing using Kubernetes on Google Container Engine
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:33 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 3 years
Contributions summary:Sandeep primarily focused on setting up and improving the load testing infrastructure for a Kubernetes-based distributed system. Their commits show the containerization of Locust.io tasks, changes to task ratios, and updates to the Locust configuration. They also made adjustments to the sample web application to be more generic, demonstrating an understanding of the system's components and how they interact.
load-testingtestingdistributed-load-testingkubernetescontainer-engine
GoogleCloudPlatform/mongodb-cloud-manager
May 2016 - Dec 2018
Bootstrap multiple Google Compute Engine instances with the MongoDB Cloud Manager automation agent
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 7 months
appenginegoogle-compute-enginegcpgooglegoogle-cloud-platform
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