Shylesh Mohan
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Zenni Optical
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolShylesh Mohan is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 14 years of experience building highly available, automation-first systems across multi-cloud environments. Currently at Zenni Optical after senior SRE roles at Nylas, he has led Kubernetes, CI/CD and IaC initiatives using Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins and Spinnaker to productionize microservices and resilient platform stacks. He previously combined backend development and operations at EatSleepRIDE, migrating monoliths to Node.js microservices, managing kOps clusters, ELK, RabbitMQ and MQTT brokers. An active open-source contributor, he has fixed core GlusterFS components (AFR, stripe, DHT) and hardened storage test infra in the OCS CI project—work that reflects deep systems-level troubleshooting beyond typical SRE tasks. Based in Toronto, he blends hands-on coding with platform leadership and a knack for turning operational edge cases into durable automation. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic reliability solutions that scale and simplify day-to-day ops.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Mobile Application Development, Mobile Application Development at Lambton CollegeDiploma in CE, Computer Engineering, Diploma in CE, Computer Engineering at Carmel Polytechnic College , Alappuzha
English, Malayalam
Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
glusterfs10
filesystem10
python10
distributed-systems10
c1110
c1710
kubernetes-pods10
replication10
back-end-development9
debug9
automation9
automations9
ceph8
script7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
red-hat-storage/ocs-ci
Apr 2019 - Oct 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:683 reviews, 104 commits, 163 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Shylesh focused on developing and enhancing the infrastructure for handling pod contexts and API-client specific implementations, as demonstrated by the initial commit. Subsequent contributions included adding a radosbench task, converting strings to "f" strings, and correcting parenthesis usage. The user also hardened the execution infrastructure and improved related documentation.
gluster/glusterfs
Jan 2012 - Aug 2012
Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Shylesh primarily contributed to the GlusterFS codebase by addressing bug fixes and making improvements to the file system's functionality. Their work involved modifications to core components such as the AFR (Afr, Active File Replication), stripe, and DHT (Distributed Hash Table) translators. The user also made changes to the CLI (Command Line Interface) and the rebalance process. These changes included filtering internal attributes, logging enhancements and handling of edge cases.
erasure-codingstoragepersistent-storagedistributed-storagefuse-filesystem
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