Ishu Kulshrestha

About Ishu Kulshrestha

I am a self motivated IT Professional with around 7+ years of exposure and experience in…

Experience

1. Integration Developer

   IBM

   Sep 2025 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   As part of the Observability team, I am responsible for designing and implementing a Unified Observability platform on AWS, integrating logs, metrics, and events from both on-premise and cloud-hosted applications into centralized monitoring platforms.Key roles and responsibilities: • Design and implement end-to-end log and metric ingestion pipelines using AWS services (Kinesis, Fluentd, Firehose, MSK, Lambda, EventBridge, S3, Athena, Glue, CloudWatch). • Integrate Splunk for centralized log management, enabling real-time log analysis and troubleshooting. • Integrate Dynatrace for application performance monitoring and metric ingestion using REST API and CloudWatch. • Build Grafana dashboards combining multiple observability data sources (CloudWatch, Splunk, Dynatrace). • Develop QuickSight dashboards for executive/business reporting and visualization. • Implement alerting and notifications via SNS, CloudWatch alarms, and Splunk alerts to notify technical and business stakeholders. • Secure observability pipelines using IAM roles, Secrets Manager, and Secure API Access. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams (DevOps, SRE, application teams, and business users) to onboard applications into the observability solution. • Deliver documentation, runbooks, and knowledge transfer sessions to support teams for operational readiness.Skills & Tools:AWS (CloudWatch, Kinesis, Firehose, S3, Athena, Glue, Lambda, EventBridge, Secrets Manager, QuickSight)| Splunk | Dynatrace | Grafana | Fluentd | Log/Metric Ingestion | Observability | Monitoring & Alerting | Automation

Education

• S J B Institute of Technology, BANGALORE

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

  2012 — 2016