Shankar Pentyala
Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolShankar Pentyala is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with 9 years of experience building and automating cloud-native platforms for AI/ML and SaaS workloads across AWS, Azure, and IBM Cloud. He has led platform automation for watsonx.ai, managing global LLM inference clusters with NVIDIA GPUs (H200, H100, A100, L40) to deliver high-performance, secure multi-region deployments. Proficient in OpenShift, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD automation, he has a track record of automating end-to-end provisioning from networking to application rollout. Shankar moved from hands-on platform engineering and customer-facing support at IBM to SRE leadership at Palo Alto Networks, bringing deep operational troubleshooting skills and product onboarding experience. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he combines an engineer’s focus on resilience with a curiosity for GenAI and continuous learning. An early background in enterprise billing systems and teaching reveals a practical, user-focused approach to complex infrastructure problems.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Missouri-Kansas City
English, Hindi, Telugu
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Github Skills (33)
deploying10
ibm-cloud10
tekton10
resource-management10
cdf10
pipeline10
sap-hana9
kubernetes9
python9
aws9
tekton-pipelines9
cloud-native8
git-repo8
nvidia7
validating7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
shankarpentyala07/python
Oct 2020 - Aug 2023
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
shankarpentyala07/terraform_test
Apr 2023 - Jun 2024
Testing terraform code
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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