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Hi, I am Sathish Kumar

Sathish Kumar

Principal Cloud Customer Engineer at RBC

With over 16 years of experience as a dedicated computer engineer, I am passionate about advancing technology and contributing to the Open Source community. My involvement spans multiple CNCF projects, where I’ve had the opportunity to make a meaningful impact. I thrive on working on innovative and engaging projects, which keeps me motivated and continuously challenged.

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate
Kubernetes and Cloud Security Associate
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Leadership
Team Work
Hard Working

Skills

Experiences

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RBC

Oct 2022 - Present

Canada

Royal Bank of Canada is a Canadian multinational financial services company and the largest bank in Canada by market capitalization. The bank serves over 20 million clients and has more than 100,000 employees worldwide. Founded in 1864 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, it maintains its corporate headquarters in Toronto and its head office in Montreal. In November 2017, RBC was added to the Financial Stability Board’s list of global systemically important banks.

Principal Cloud Customer Engineer

Oct 2022 - Present


Loblaw Companies Limited

Oct 2019 - Oct 2022

Canada

Loblaw Companies Limited is a Canadian retailer encompassing corporate and franchise supermarkets operating under 22 regional and market-segment banners (including Loblaws), as well as pharmacies, banking and apparel. Loblaw operates a private label program that includes grocery and household items, clothing, baby products, pharmaceuticals, cellular phones, general merchandise and financial services. Loblaw is the largest Canadian food retailer, and its brands include President’s Choice, No Name and Joe Fresh. It is controlled by George Weston Limited, a holding company controlled by the Weston family; Galen G. Weston is the chair of the Loblaw board of directors, as well as chair of the board of directors and CEO of Canada-based holding company George Weston.

Site Reliability Engineer

Oct 2021 - Oct 2022

Systems Engineer (DevOps/Cloud Engineer)

Oct 2019 - Oct 2021

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LifeFitness

Nov 2015 - Sep 2019

Singapore

Life Fitness is an American fitness company specializing in the production and distribution of cardiovascular and strength training equipment under several brands including Life Fitness, Cybex and Hammer Strength. It is headquartered in Rosemont, Illinois and is a portfolio company of KPS Capital Partners.

Senior System Administrator (DevOps Engineer)

Nov 2015 - Sep 2019


IBM

Jan 2014 - Nov 2015

Singapore

International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries. IBM is the largest industrial research organization in the world, with 19 research facilities across a dozen countries, having held the record for most annual U.S. patents generated by a business for 29 consecutive years from 1993 to 2021.

System Administrator

Jan 2014 - Nov 2015

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Singapore

The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national public collegiate and research university in Singapore. It was officially established in 1980 by the merger of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University.

IT Engineer

Feb 2012 - Dec 2013


Embitel

Dec 2007 - Jan 2012

Bangalore

Embitel, part of the CARIAD Group, has been playing a key role in developing the unified operating system for all vehicles of the Volkswagen Group brands. CARIAD, a Volkswagen Group company, has been building a unified technology and software platform for all the VW Group’s brands.

Junior System Administrator

Dec 2007 - Jan 2012

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Education

Bachelor of Technology

Projects

Backstage GitLab Plugin
Backstage GitLab Plugin
Contributor Aug 2021 - Oct 2022

View GitLab pipelines, merge requests, languages and contributors.

Covid-19 Vaccine Appointment
Covid-19 Vaccine Appointment
Contributor Jun 2021 - Jun 2021

Notify the end users about the available covid-19 vaccine appointment

Accomplishments

VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization

The VCP6-DCV certification validates that a badge earner can administer and troubleshoot vSphere V6 compute infrastructures.

CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator

The CKA was created by the Linux Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a part of their ongoing effort to help develop the Kubernetes ecosystem. The exam is online, proctored, performance-based test that requires solving multiple tasks from a command line running Kubernetes.

CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist

The Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) program provides assurance that a CKS has the skills, knowledge, and competence on a broad range of best practices for securing container-based applications and Kubernetes platforms during build, deployment and runtime. CKA certification is required to sit for this exam.

CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

The Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam certifies that candidates can design, build and deploy cloud-native applications for Kubernetes.

KCNA: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate

The Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) exam demonstrates a user’s foundational knowledge and skills in Kubernetes and the wider cloud native ecosystem.

KCSA: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate

The Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate (KCSA) exam demonstrates a user’s understanding of the baseline security configuration of Kubernetes clusters to meet compliance objectives, including the ability to harden security controls, test and monitor the security, and participate in assessing security threats and vulnerabilities.

Kubestronauts are people who showed exemplary Kubernetes knowledge by passing all five of CNCF’s Kubernetes-related certifications: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS), Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) and Kubernetes and Cloud Security Associate (KCSA).

Fundamentals for Istio

Istio is the most popular service mesh deployed into production across the cloud-native ecosystem. It provides the foundational pieces to implement zero-trust networking, get deeper observability into a distributed system, and smart routing control for safer software releases.

Intermediate for Istio

This credential, by Solo.io, certifies that recipients possess the essential skills to deploy Istio, configure it, debug it, secure it and operationalize it for their organization.

Expert for Istio

This credential, by Solo.io, certifies that you possess the essential skills to use Istio in more advanced scenarios including tenancy, PKI integration, and other workflows for your organization.

Fundamentals for Istio Ambient Mesh

Istio Ambient Mesh implements a “sidecarless” architecture which is transparent to the workloads in the mesh. This approach has a number of benefits including incremental adoption, improved operations and more.

Fundamentals for Envoy

Envoy Proxy is a foundational layer for many of the innovations propelling the cloud-native community, including service meshes and cloud-native API gateways. But many engineers understand Envoy only as a black-box, hidden by simplifying levels of abstraction.