Kaivalya Shah
Cloud Architect and DevOps Engineer in India
Hello,
Thank you for your interest in getting to know about me!
TL;DR: Multi-cloud certified architect who can code and work with most tools.
Technology has been my passion since a long time, and it started off with exploring the field of networking.
I had a fully functioning rack of routers and switches at my home by the time I was 11! Isn't that cool?
I am a big fan consumer technology as well, spending a fair share of my time modding Android phones and lurking at XDA Developer forums, for a good part of my high school life. Yikes!
I started a blog with a friend in 11th grade (2013) called Ultimateandroidtricks. We renamed it to Ultrafinite Inc. and it is still up at ultrafinite.blogspot.com Check it out!
I was lucky to choose an ICT program for my Bachelor's in Technology, which helped my quench my thirst for knowledge across technology. Ranging from wireless networks and embedded systems, to cloud (which is probably why you're here)!
Credit goes to the project based learning pedagogy at my college that right from the 1st semester of engineering, I was coding and creating things from scratch. You can check out some of my work here.
During college, I grew an interest in cloud but before jumping into that, I knew the importance of understanding how the cloud works. So, I completed an internship where I managed VMware and Linux servers. (Yes, the physical ones chilling in their exclusive rooms)
Following that, I started learning AWS and doing an internship at an AWS partner. Although the learning has never stopped, I feel this was the time when I was learning at my highest potential every single day. I got exposure to Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, HashiCorp Vault and numerous other tools. As a 20 year old in 2017, I can easily say this was the right platform I needed to grow.
After this internship, we built a fully functioning distributed and secure file storage system inspired by Pied Piper of the TV show Silicon Valley! The code is on my GitHub if that interests you.
In January 2018, I started off a journey with Deloitte which lasted till November 2020. In that time, I received exposure to several aspects of Consulting and the Cloud industry. I got a chance to attend Google Cloud Next in San Francisco, and AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas in 2019.
In India, I am an active member of AWS, GCP, and other communities across Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, and Mumbai.
I would love to speak at or help you organize conferences. Reach out to me!