Summary
Sunil Kathait is a Senior Platform Engineer with 10 years of experience building resilient, automated cloud infrastructure and self-service developer platforms, currently driving platform capabilities at Ellucian from Bengaluru. He designs and operates CI/CD, GitOps-based configuration management, monitoring, and high-performance storage—having tuned Ceph for NVMe-backed AI/ML workloads and deployed containerized services on Amazon ECS and EC2. His recent focus is on scalable, secure infrastructure for agentic AI and large language models, enabling autonomous workflows and real-time decisioning. A longtime open-source enthusiast, he brings hands-on expertise across OpenStack, Elasticsearch, Ceph, MLOps/LLMOps and infra automation, bridging deep systems-level work with cross-functional product and security teams. Sunil pairs an engineer’s curiosity with an MBA-informed product perspective, often translating low-level optimizations into measurable platform efficiency and delivery improvements.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's Degree, IT, A, Engineer's Degree, IT, A at MERIT-IIT
High School Diploma, Computer Science, A, High School Diploma, Computer Science, A at Carman School
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Information Technology, A, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Information Technology, A at NMIMS Global
Middle School Diploma, Mathematics and Computer Science, Middle School Diploma, Mathematics and Computer Science at St Joseph Convent
Hindi, English