Shantanu Deshpande
Vice President - Senior SRE at Nomura
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolShantanu Deshpande is a Vice President and Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native, Kubernetes-first platforms across finance and consulting. Based in London, he has driven SRE adoption and observability initiatives at Deutsche Bank and now leads reliability efforts at Nomura, combining incident response, chaos engineering, and tooling to reduce toil and improve uptime. A hands-on contributor to projects like Cilium, he has patched networking, observability, and MTU issues—demonstrating practical eBPF and container networking expertise. Known for intentionally breaking systems to learn from them, he co-organises the Mumbai Chaos Engineering Meetup and brings a deep curiosity for Linux internals and philosophy to his technical leadership.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at Amravati University
English, Hindi, Marathi, German
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Github Skills (19)
kubernetes10
networking10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
ebpf9
cni9
documentation8
bash8
git7
debugging7
debug7
jenkins6
gitlab6
curl6
jenkins-pipeline6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
cilium/cilium
Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 PRs, 27 comments, 4 issues in 6 months
Contributions summary:Shantanu primarily contributed to the project by fixing bugs, improving documentation, and enhancing the codebase. They addressed issues related to indentation, logging levels, and outdated references. Moreover, the user made changes to the codebase by sorting controller output, adding a new service entry, and updating the MTU settings. These changes indicate a focus on improving the functionality and maintainability of the Cilium project.
bpfcontainerskerneltroubleshootingkubernetes-networking
ishantanu/demo-jekyll-blog
Dec 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 8 months
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