The advice was practical and helped me get more clarity about my career direction
Anjali kumari
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Shikhar is very friendly and calm person. He provided proper path and guidance for Devops as well cleared all doubt . Anyone facing any issues do connect with him once.
Dwijal Gaikwad
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Shikshar helped me understand the industry prerequisites and guided me for the role that Im looking out for. Thanks Shikhar!
Akshatha M
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I have asked lot of questions regarding career path . Sikhar heared all my queries and explained case by case.. Very good session.
Arun Kumar
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Amazing session highlighting every aspect of industry standards and awareness of necessary skills for making an impact in the industry.
Ankan Nayak
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Shikhar is someone who listened to me very carefully and addressed my concerns to the point. One could clearly feel the plethora of knowledge he has gathered by working in the DevOps field over the years. All in all, a productive session, thanks for the career guidance. I would love to book more paid sessions with you for sure.
Had an very informative call with Shikhar. He has given a very detailed answers to all of my questions.Highly recommend to others.
Sahil Kumar
7th Feb, 2023
About me
I build platforms that other engineers rely on — and make sure they never have to think about them.
Senior Platform & SRE Engineer with ~12 years across the full reliability stack: distributed systems, observability, infrastructure automation, performance engineering, and AI-powered platform tooling. At Wayfair, I operate across all these layers for an environment running 5,000+ microservices. Led a engineering DevOps team and built SRE teams from scratch at organizations.
How I can help you on this call:
- Starting out or transitioning into SRE/DevOps/Software
- Engineering/Solution Architecture: I'll help you understand what each role actually involves day-to-day, which fits your background, and build a personalized learning path — tools, certifications, project work, and interview prep — mapped out so you know exactly what to learn next.
- Moving into engineering management: Guidance on 30-60-90 day onboarding plans, on-call/incident ownership models, hiring frameworks, and team structure — based on building and leading SRE/DevOps teams firsthand.
- Staying an IC and going deep: Not everyone wants to manage — that's fine. I'll help you build a specialization and growth plan toward staff/principal-level technical seniority instead.
What I've actually built in brief:
- Kubernetes cluster ops at scale, Kafka as managed internal platform, ELK→Datadog migration (25% cost cut), distributed tracing across 500+ services (~30% faster debugging), SLI/SLO practices (~35% less alert fatigue)
- Terraform/GitOps automation cutting environment provisioning 40-50%, performance testing platform at 20K+ RPS
- AI platform tooling: self-healing observability (auto-remediates gaps across ~5,000 repos), AI PR risk classification, MCP server ecosystem, DORA + AI velocity tracking
Certified SRE Foundation™ engineer, Top 1% Contributor on Topmate, speaker at GDG/SRE Meetups (250+ attendees), Best Innovative Solution — APAC Region (Credit Suisse).
Let's connect and collaborate to deliver efficient and reliable software solutions!
Medium: https://shikhar-sri2.medium.com/
TopMate: https://topmate.io/shikhar_srivastava.
LinkedIn : www.linkedin.com/in/shikhar-sri
Shikhar offers attentive, knowledgeable guidance in DevOps, providing clear, impactful industry insights. Highly recommended for career guidance.
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