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Ajith Shetty

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Engineering Manager at Cisco | ex-Ola

Works at
Cisco
Location
Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
Experience
11+ years experience
Education
IIM Bangalore
Languages
English, Hindi, Telugu

Overview

I lead cloud infrastructure at Cisco in Hyderabad. Grew the infrastructure team from 6 to 16 engineers. Before that: Ola and LTIMindtree.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in cloud infrastructure
  • Advice on cloud infrastructure
  • Working sessions on C++
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
Please don't message about
  • Crypto token projects
  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Offshore staffing offers

Checks messages twice a week

Skills
AWSincident responseKubernetesPrometheusTerraformLinuxC++
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for teams scaling past 50 engineers: cloud infrastructure and C++

Topics
cloud infrastructure, Linux, AWS
Format
Calls
Terms
Free for early founders
Capacity
One advisory role at a time
Best for
First-time founders

11 years of cloud infrastructure. Prefer specific questions over coffee chats.

Hyderabad, Indiaterraformc++linux
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Next role: Site Reliability Engineer in public sector tech, Hyderabad or hybrid

Target roles
Site Reliability Engineer
Level
Mid
Industries
Healthtech, B2B SaaS
Work mode
Hybrid
Available
From next quarter
Work authorization
Indian citizen, open to relocating
What I'm looking for
A team that ships weekly and owns infrastructure end to end.
Not interested in
Agencies and outsourcing firms

11 years in cloud infrastructure. Strongest at Prometheus and AWS. Available immediately.

Hyderabad, Indialinuxkubernetesterraform

Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Dec 2023 - Present
    Cisco · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 620ms to 105ms.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 15 minutes to under 3.
    • Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.
  2. Senior Site Reliability Engineer
    Mar 2022 - Oct 2023
    Ola · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 40% in two quarters.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 44 minutes to under 5.
  3. Site Reliability Engineer
    May 2019 - Mar 2022
    LTIMindtree · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Wrote the Linux service that now handles 52 million requests a day.
  4. Site Reliability Engineer
    Feb 2016 - Apr 2019
    Morgan Stanley · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Moved 68% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 40% in two quarters.

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Education

  1. IIM Bangalore
    MBA, Business Administration
    2018 - 2020
  2. Christ University
    BBA, Electrical Engineering
    2010 - 2014

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