Nishkarsh Raj
Platform Engineering Architect | GitHub Star ⭐
- Role
- Platform Engineering Architect at StatusNeo
- Location
- Jersey City, NJ, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Nishkarsh Raj
Staff Platform Engineer with 6+ years architecting cloud infrastructure, AI platforms, and developer tooling at Fortune 500 scale. Built systems serving engineers processing 25M+ events daily with 99.9% uptime. Delivered $7M in infrastructure optimization through systematic cost reduction and AI-powered automation. Led platform initiatives from architecture through production deployment. Three-time GitHub Stars Award Winner.
Experience
Platform Engineering Architect
Jul 2024 — Present · Jersey City, NJ, US
Built AI-powered FinOps platform using AWS Bedrock and FastAPI for intelligent cost optimization, delivering $2M in additional annual savings through automated waste detection and remediation recommendations Led $5M infrastructure cost optimization across RDS, EC2 (Graviton migration), S3 (Intelligent Tiering), and KMS (94% reduction through batch processing) for Caesars Entertainment’s regulatory compliance platform serving 35 US states Architected self-healing Kubernetes platform using FluxCD and Karpenter with OpenTelemetry observability, reducing P0 incidents from to 40 per quarter (96%) and increasing deployment frequency by 10x Migrated 3,400+ Apache Airflow DAGs from Astronomer to self-hosted EKS, reducing annual licensing costs by $650K while improving DAG processing efficiency by 35% Led GitHub Enterprise migrations for Cloud Software Group (TIBCO from SVN, Citrix from Bitbucket), modernizing version control and CI/CD for developers in partnership with Microsoft
Education
UPES
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
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