Shyam Sreevalsan
Vice President - Strategy, Partnerships, Product
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolShyam Sreevalsan is a Helsinki-based technology leader with nine years of experience building and scaling product, partnerships, and strategy at Netdata, where he now serves as Vice President. He blends hands-on engineering chops—contributing PostgreSQL monitoring, dashboarding, and cloud fixes to the popular Netdata open-source project—with product leadership that spans growth, strategy, and technical product management. Earlier roles in engineering management and technical product management at Sandvine and software engineering at Sasken and Wipro give him a strong foundation in networking, systems, and team delivery. Known for "solving problems" pragmatically, he moves fluidly between product vision and backend/DevOps execution. He holds an MS in Software Systems from BITS Pilani and a B.Tech in Computer Science, pairing formal systems training with practical, production-focused work. An interesting detail: he contributes to instrumentation that gives operators "X-ray vision" into infrastructure, reflecting a bias toward observability and operational excellence.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering at University of Calicut
Hindi, Malayalam, English
Github Skills (16)
data-visualizations10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
postgresql10
devops10
alerts9
bash9
alertview9
alertdialog9
monitoring9
alertifyjs9
cloud-infrastructure8
dockers7
infrastructure7
docker7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
netdata/netdata
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Architected for speed. Automated for easy. Monitoring and troubleshooting, transformed!
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:207 reviews, 7 commits, 79 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Shyam primarily contributed to the PostgreSQL monitoring and dashboarding features within the Netdata project. This involved adding new metrics, updating existing information, and improving the presentation of PostgreSQL data in the Netdata dashboard. Additionally, the user fixed a bug related to Azure IMDS in system-info.sh, indicating involvement with the infrastructure and cloud environment.
observabilitynotificationsgrafanaprometheusdashboard
shyamvalsan/YeelightController
Oct 2017 - Oct 2022
Simple bash utility to discover and control Yeelight Wifi Smart bulb
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 5 years
discoverraspberry-piyeelightlighthome-automation
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