Karthikeyan Siva

Karthikeyan Siva has a solid background in DevOps and cloud administration. karthikeyan is currently working as a Staff DevOps Engineer at FourKites, Inc. since February 2022. Prior to that, they held the position of Senior Engineer DevOps at the same company from December 2018 to January 2022.

Before joining FourKites, Karthikeyan worked at Smartron as a Senior Design Engineer from August 2016 to December 2018. In this role, they successfully migrated the entire setup from CTRLS datacenter to the AWS cloud platform and managed a production Kubernetes cluster in GCE.

From October 2014 to July 2016, Karthikeyan served as a Senior Cloud Admin at Wintlt Technologies P. Limited. karthikeyan installed and configured a production environment in the AWS Cloud Platform, ensuring full compliance with PCI DSS requirements. karthikeyan also implemented and managed Redis master-slave replication for the MRMS setup.

Prior to that, from February 2012 to October 2014, Karthikeyan worked as a Senior System Admin for E-Billing Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (EBS). karthikeyan built and configured a production environment in the AWS Cloud platform with full compliance to PCI DSS requirements.

Before their role at EBS, Karthikeyan worked as a System Administrator at Mindzen Inc from June 2011 to January 2012. karthikeyan installed and configured LAMP stack for the Mzapp application.

Earlier in their career, they served as a System Administrator at Sansbound Solution Private Ltd from September 2010 to June 2011. karthikeyan was responsible for solving technical problems related to LAN/WAN, maintaining and troubleshooting various servers, and patching servers with OS level security patches.

Karthikeyan's professional journey began as a Linux System Administrator at Winways Systems Private Limited from September 2008 to August 2010. In this role, they configured and maintained Apache Web server for hosting websites and managed firewalls using iptables. Overall, Karthikeyan has a diverse range of experiences in DevOps, cloud administration, and system administration across various industries.

Karthikeyan Siva completed their Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) from Madurai Kamraj University in Madurai from 2007 to 2010. karthikeyan also attended SDA School in Madurai for BCA in Computer Science, but the specific years are not provided.

In addition to their formal education, Karthikeyan Siva has obtained several certifications. karthikeyan received the "Running Redis at Scale" certification from Redis University in April 2023. In December 2022, they obtained the "GitOps at Scale" and "GitOps Fundamentals" certifications from Codefresh. Karthikeyan Siva also holds the "CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator" certification from The Linux Foundation, which they obtained in October 2020.

Furthermore, Karthikeyan Siva has expressed an intention to pursue the "Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate" certification from Amazon Web Services (AWS), the "Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching (CCNA)" certification from Cisco, and the "Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)" certification from Red Hat. However, the specific dates of obtaining these certifications are not provided.