Nilesh Barge

About Nilesh Barge

Engineering leader with 18+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, Kubernetes platforms, and developer infrastructure used by engineers and services.Currently leading platform engineering teams at Intuit responsible for Intuit Kubernetes Service (IKS), async compute platforms, and internal developer paved roads that power mission-critical financial services and developer productivity across the company.My focus is on building scalable cloud-native platforms, improving reliability, and enabling developer velocity at scale. I have extensive experience operating large Kubernetes fleets (300+ clusters) and building infrastructure platforms that support thousands of services and engineers.Key accomplishments include: • Leading 3 platform teams (16+ engineers) including Staff and Senior Staff engineers • Delivering $1.9M+ annual infrastructure cost savings • Scaling async compute platform to 200K TPS workloads • Supporting 10K developers and 3K services • Driving platform reliability and operational excellence across mission-critical systems • Building high-performing teams with 9 hires and 7 promotionsI enjoy partnering with Principal and Distinguished Engineers to evolve platform architecture and enabling teams to move faster through strong developer platforms.Areas of Expertise Platform Engineering Kubernetes Infrastructure Distributed Systems Developer Platforms Observability Platforms Cloud Infrastructure (AWS) Real-time Data Systems AIOps Platforms Engineering Leadership

Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   Intuit

   Dec 2023 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Lead engineering for Intuit Kubernetes Service (IKS), Async platform, and Services Paved Road (SPR) enabling large-scale developer infrastructure used across Intuit.Manage 3 platform teams with 16 engineers responsible for infrastructure reliability, platform scalability, and developer productivity.Platform Scale• Operate 300+ Kubernetes clusters supporting services and developersReliability & Platform Operations• Delivered Kubernetes upgrade across production clusters with zero incidents• Built automated cluster capacity planning platform reducing analysis time from 3 days to 1 hour• Led tax-season readiness initiatives ensuring cluster scalabilityCost Optimization• Reduced observability costs by $738K annually• Delivered $1.19M infrastructure savings through Karpenter autoscaling rolloutDeveloper Platform Innovation• Built AI-assisted debugging tools enabling developers to troubleshoot infrastructure issues without platform expertise• Developed Kubernetes diagnostics platform to reduce incident resolution timeAsync Platform• Scaled Async platform to support 200K TPS workloadsOrganizational Leadership• Led 9 hires and 7 promotions• Mentored engineers into tech lead and staff roles• Increased team PR velocity from 5.6

Education

• Shivaji University

  Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology

  2002 — 2006

Skills

• Hadoop
• Servlets
• Hibernate
• Jpa
• Websphere Application Server
• Oracle
• Java
• J2ee 1.4
• Spring
• Hbase
• Jquery
• Solr Cloud
• Nosql
• Jsp
• Struts
• Spring Framework
• Ejb
• Infobright
• Apache Parquet
• Apache Spark
• Jdbc
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Oracle Pl/Sql Development
• Xml
• Jms
• Pentaho
• Jsr 168
• Ajax
• Couchbase
• Javascript
• Pl/Sql