Vatsal Gaurav Apte

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Site Reliability Engineer at Cisco · Cloud infrastructure · AWS, Go

Cisco
Ahmedabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
1+ years experience
BITS Pilani
English, Hindi, Gujarati
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Overview

I've spent 1 years on cloud infrastructure, now at Cisco. Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion. Built the experimentation framework 11 product teams use to ship changes safely. Most at home with Linux and Kubernetes. Parent of two, so mostly sleep-deprived.

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  • Second opinions on AWS decisions
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Questions about cloud infrastructure
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  • Requests to fix your code for free
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Skills
LinuxAWSTerraformKubernetesGo

Experience

  1. Site Reliability Engineer
    Oct 2025 - Present
    Cisco · 1 yr · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 315ms to 117ms.
    • Wrote the Linux service that now handles 9 million requests a day.

Projects

Write-up: cloud infrastructure in practice
2025

A long-form guide to cloud infrastructure for people starting out.

Cloud infrastructure benchmark
2022

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Kubernetes and Go on real workloads.

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Education

  1. BITS Pilani
    B.E., Computer Engineering
    2020 - 2024

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