Shikhaa Chawla

Group Manager Ethos Engineering (Developer Platforms) @Adobe

San Jose, CA, US

Set the strategic vision, technical direction and develop an execution roadmap for the organization.Lead and mentor technical teams with a strong emphasis on using API first approach to simplify operations and bring down the total cost of service ownership.Drive a culture of continuous improvement and innovation by identifying opportunities to enhance processes, tools, and underlying technology to improve system reliability and scalability.Deep understanding of emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in compute infrastructure.Proficiency in cloud computing platforms (e.g, AWS, Azure), Linux-based systems, container orchestration (e.g, Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (e.g, Terraform, Ansible, ACK, ASO, KRO) and monitoring platforms.Provide thought leadership and executive communication to align business goals with engineering initiatives.Applying AI tools like Cursor and Chatgpt to generate technical and business documentation. Encouraged the team to apply AI tools to reduce our operational overhead by 40%