Nithya Shree

Nithya Shree has a diverse work experience, starting with their role as an Ingenium Student Campus Ambassador at QuEST Global in 2015. Nithya then worked as a Summer Intern at Avaya in 2015. In 2016, they joined Directi as a DevOps Engineer, where they were introduced to advancing sysadmin culture. In 2018, they moved to Walmart Labs as a Systems Engineer III, where they were part of the search backend team responsible for end-to-end infrastructure of walmart.com & samsclub. In 2019, they joined Constellation AI as a DevOps Engineer and was the only DevOps Engineer reporting to the VP of Engineering. Currently, they are working at Smarkets as an Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure, where they are responsible for evaluating Data Center options for Colocation compliance requirements and POC with hybrid cloud environments to improve latency.

Nithya Shree attended RV College of Engineering from 2012 to 2016, where they obtained a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science. Nithya has also obtained numerous certifications since then, including Exploiting and Protecting Web Applications and Using Cryptography correctly from the Stanford Center for Professional Development in December 2022, Network Security from the Stanford Center for Professional Development in April 2022, Foundations of Information Security from the Stanford Center for Professional Development in February 2022, CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator from The Linux Foundation in August 2021, Docker Certified Associate from Docker, Inc in May 2021, LFD259: Kubernetes for Developers and LFS258: Kubernetes Fundamentals from The Linux Foundation in May 2021, LFS201: Essentials of Linux System Administration and LFCS: Linux Foundation Certified Systems Administrator from The Linux Foundation in March 2021, CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer from The Linux Foundation in January 2021, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in November 2019, AWS Certified Developer – Associate and AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate and AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in November 2020, LFS211: Linux Networking and Administration from The Linux Foundation in July 2021, HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate from HashiCorp in September 2020, Apache Hadoop from O'Reilly Media in February 2016, and Introduction to Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services from O'Reilly Media in January 2016.