Sunil Shivanand
Senior Rådgiver at Statnett SF
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolSunil Shivanand is a Senior Advisor at Statnett SF with over 15 years of software engineering experience, focused on cloud-native systems, Kubernetes, Golang, and MLOps to support Norway’s power grid modernization. He has led technical teams at Graphcore and managed cloud platforms at Shortcut, bringing a practical blend of hands-on engineering and leadership across startups and enterprise R&D. Sunil’s open-source contributions include non-trivial refactors to Crossplane’s composition and patching engine, demonstrating deep understanding of cloud control planes and composition logic. He combines low-level systems experience from early roles at HP and VMware with modern distributed systems work—bridging C/C++ debugging expertise to designing scalable, secure cloud infrastructure. Based in Oslo, he’s driven by building reliable, production-grade platforms that enable sustainable and smart energy operations. Outside the obvious stack, his career shows a pattern of turning research-grade technology into operational services for real-world systems.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS, MS at University of Illinois ChicagoBachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering at Bapuji Institute of Engineering & Technology
English
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Github Skills (9)
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
cloud-native9
controls8
infrastructure-as-code8
control-systems8
controller8
yaml7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
crossplane/crossplane
Oct 2021 - May 2024
The Cloud Native Control Plane
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 5 PRs, 28 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Sunil's contributions primarily involved migrating code related to patching and composition pipelines within the Crossplane project. They refactored code, converting from `MergeOptions` to `ToFieldPath` policies, and implemented new types and functions to support these changes. They also added unit tests to validate the correctness of the patch policy logic and addressed review comments. The user demonstrated expertise in the internal workings of Crossplane's composition engine.
containerscloud-computingserverlesscloudmulticloud
padlar/kubernetes
Oct 2018 - Feb 2024
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Contributions:17 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 5 months
containersschedulingorchestrationdockergrade
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