Sai Nihar

About Sai Nihar

As a Cloud & Site Reliability Engineer with over years of hands-on experience, I specialize in building secure, scalable, and cost-efficient infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure. My expertise spans Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE), Terraform, CI/CD automation, and observability with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog. I’ve successfully led cloud modernization efforts, automated deployment pipelines, reduced MTTR by 60%, and implemented cost-saving strategies that brought down cloud spend by up to 35%. I enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges, collaborating with engineering and security teams, and driving operational excellence across distributed systems.

Experience

1. Devops Engineer

   Lowe's Companies, Inc.

   Oct 2024 — Present · San Jose, CA, US

   Designed scalable infrastructure on EKS/AKS using Terraform; cut costs 35% via pod bin-packing and Karpenter.• Automated multi-cloud GitOps pipelines (Argo CD + GitHub Actions); reduced deployment time by 80%.• Developed and maintained secure, high-throughput APIs using FastAPI and Python for ingestion, compliance, and monitoring use cases.• Deployed Helm/Kustomize-based services across environments with Istio mTLS and VPA/HPA autoscaling.• Reduced MTTR by 60% using Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and CloudWatch-based root cause analysis.• Collaborated with customers to troubleshoot rollouts and document install workflows, improving onboarding by 80%.• Built real-time SLO dashboards with Grafana and alerts using Datadog and PagerDuty.

Education

• Lindsey Wilson College

  Master's degree