Siva Kaliappan
Staff Engineer II at VMware
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSiva Kaliappan is a Staff Engineer II with 12 years of experience building platform and full-stack solutions for enterprise, SaaS, and FedRAMP-compliant products. Based in Coimbatore, he currently architects and operates cloud-native platform components and observability pipelines at VMware, driving migrations of VM-based services to Kubernetes on AWS and Azure. He has deep experience across Kafka, Temporal, PostgreSQL, Vault, and CD/automation for microservices, and a strong track record in developer experience tooling. Earlier roles at Sematext and Infinera show hands-on work on monitoring agents, ClickHouse migrations, distributed systems, and JVM/network performance tuning. An active open-source contributor, he improved cross-browser UX for the popular Kibana logtailing plugin logtrail, reflecting a pragmatic blend of front-end polish and backend reliability. Practical, systems-first, and security-conscious, he excels at turning complex operational requirements into resilient, auditable platforms.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Anna University, Chennai
English, Tamil
Github Skills (6)
html10
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
kibana9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sivasamyk/logtrail
Jan 2016 - Oct 2020
Kibana plugin to view, search & live tail log events
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:32 releases, 424 commits, 208 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Siva's contributions primarily involved developing and implementing front-end components for the Kibana plugin, `logtrail`. Their work focused on creating a dynamic dropdown component, including its CSS and HTML templates. Additionally, the user addressed UI issues and added fixes to support Firefox and Internet Explorer, demonstrating a focus on cross-browser compatibility and improving the user experience within the plugin. These changes included modifying styles to ensure proper rendering and functionality.
eventslog-viewerpapertraillive-searchtail
sivasamyk/graylog-plugin-input-jmx
Sep 2015 - May 2016
JMX Monitor Input Plugin for Graylog
Contributions:3 releases, 11 commits, 16 pushes in 8 months
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