Shahtab Khandakar
Associate Director - Infrastructure & Platform Engineer (Technical Lead) @RBC Capital Markets
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WORK HISTORY
Associate Director - Infrastructure & Platform Engineer (Technical Lead) @RBC Capital Markets
EDUCATION
The City College of New York
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical Engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT SHAHTAB KHANDAKAR
PRINCIPAL / STAFF PLATFORM ENGINEERLow Latency Linux • Kubernetes / OpenShift • Platform Infrastructure • Observability • AI-Driven Ops/Development Principal / Staff-level Platform Engineer with 25+ years building and operating mission-critical Linux, low-latency, and cloud native infrastructure for Tier-1 banks and electronic trading environments. Deep hands-on expertise across kernel-level performance tuning, network and system optimization, Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms, large-scale observability systems, and AI infrastructure operations.Recognized technical authority responsible for designing firm-wide platform services, leading high-impact engineering initiatives, and solving complex performance, reliability, and scale challenges across hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-prem platforms/environments. Operates as a hands-on technical leader, not a people-manager-only profile.CORE STRENGTHS• Linux & Low-Latency Engineering: Kernel tuning, Kernel bypass (Onload), RDMA/InfiniBand, NIC benchmarking, micro-latency optimization• Platform & Kubernetes Engineering: RedHat OpenShift (7+ years), AWS EKS, Helm, Istio, Gateway API, GitOps (ArgoCD, Kustomize, GitHub Actions), Cilium• Observability at Scale: Logs, metrics, traces using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Thanos, Edge Delta, ClickHouse, Grafana, Kafka• AI-Driven Infrastructure: Agentic AI, RAG, MCP, OpenAI/Agent SDK, AWS Bedrock/SageMaker, LangChain/LangGraph, AI Infrastructure engineering with OpenShift, Nvidia GPU/operator, Apache Iceberg, Dremio LakeHouse• Automation & IaC: Terraform, Ansible/AAP, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Vault, Artifactory• High-Performance Systems: Multi-datacenter HA platforms, HPC (IBM Platform LSF 100+ nodes, Slurm)• Platform Ownership: PaaS (OpenShift), Redis Enterprise, Elasticsearch, enterprise shared services (Kafka, Kafka Connect) PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS• Certified in CNCF Kubernetes Administrator Certification: CKA ( Certificate ID LF-fno5vhynhu ), Kubernetes Application Developer CKAD (Certificate ID LF-avzncsw0ff), https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification/verify/• Certified in Linux Foundation Certified Argo Project Associate, CAPA (Certificate ID: LF-uqyyjynbf1)• Mastering Deep Learning – Neural Network Course (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, Passed with 95.5/100) My completed projects for the course: https://github.com/shahtab/deep-learning-neural-network• Linux Foundation product certifications ( Cilium, OpenTelemetry, Gateway API)• ClickHouse certified Database Associate• Building Agentic Ai Systems from Packt Publishing
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