Sriram Venkatesh
Digital Platforms Observability Lead
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSriram Venkatesh is a digital platforms observability lead and seasoned SRE-focused engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable, maintainable cloud-native systems from Melbourne. He combines hands-on platform engineering and DevOps expertise with a strong emphasis on observability-driven development to reduce toil and improve delivery outcomes. At Versent he progressed from cloud platform engineer to lead engineer, contributing to notable open-source tooling like saml2aws by improving shell integration, Okta MFA and Linux keyring support. Known for initiative and creative problem solving, he blends pragmatic engineering with a customer-first mindset to produce quality solutions that scale. Now leading observability at AustralianSuper, he continues to drive engineering excellence across teams while retaining a developer’s attention to usability and operational detail.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Networking Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Networking Engineering at Victoria University of WellingtonScots College Wellington-New Zealand
English, Tamil
Github Skills (11)
linux10
go10
aws10
scripting10
saml10
bash9
powershell9
keyring8
devops8
macos3
windows3
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Versent/saml2aws
Jul 2018 - Jul 2022
CLI tool which enables you to login and retrieve AWS temporary credentials using a SAML IDP
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Sriram primarily focused on enhancing the `saml2aws` CLI tool. Their contributions included adding a new subcommand to emit environment variables for different shells (bash, powershell, fish), enabling easier integration with various development environments. They also implemented improvements to the Okta MFA options and introduced a feature to configure the Keyring backend for Linux systems, which supports various credential storage methods. These changes show an understanding of the tool's inner workings and how to improve its usability.
idpsaml-idpcredentialsawsretrieve
srizzling/.dotfiles.fish
May 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:8 PRs, 60 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 8 months
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