Hi there! I’m Shani — a software engineer focused on cloud-native platforms, Golang, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud IPAM.

Skills


Core skills I use to deliver reliable, scalable software.

Golang / Microservices

85%

Kubernetes / Helm / K3s

85%

Prometheus / Grafana / Loki / Kibana

70%

Kafka / Pulsar / RabbitMQ / Dapr

75%

GCP / AWS / Azure

70%

Service Mesh (Linkerd)

70%

Networking (DNS/TCP/IP/DHCP/OVS)

70%

Algorithms / DSA

75%

MySQL / PostgreSQL / Redis / MongoDB

65%

Python / ML / Flask / Pandas / scikit-learn

60%

HTML / CSS / Bootstrap / Angular

50%

Git / Linux

65%

Blockchain / Dapps (Solidity)

40%

Work Experience


Infoblox Apr 2024 - Present

Senior Software Engineer
• AWS VPC IPAM integration in collaboration with AWS.
• Built "DDI Digital Agent" (agentic AI) using MCP host/servers to automate DDI workflows via natural language.
• Multi-cloud IPAM asset discovery and management (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• GCP internal range management with Infoblox IPAM.
Stack: Golang, GCP, Kubernetes, Kafka/Pulsar, IPAM.

Infoblox Apr 2022 - Apr 2024

Software Engineer II
• Built event-based microservices with gRPC-Go/Kafka/Dapr on cloud-native infra.
• Built custom K8s controllers/operators with client-go and Kubebuilder.
• Managed k3s edge platform for BloxOne SaaS apps; Observability with Prometheus/Grafana/Kibana.

Infoblox Feb 2021 - Apr 2022

Software Engineer I
• gRPC microservices for deploying network apps/config on BloxOne on-prem devices.
• Automated on-prem k3s certificate rotation with Go service; K8s API aggregation for bulk import/export.

Tata Communications July 2019 - Feb 2021

Software Developer
Built PaaS for database services on Kubernetes clusters.
Provided Backup as a Service for K8s objects using Velero & Rook Ceph S3.
Built custom controllers/operators for K8s resources using Golang SDK; wrote admission controllers.
Monitoring/visualization with Prometheus and Grafana; AWS IAM/EC2/S3/EKS/VPC/RDS/Lambda.

yorthing Apr 2018 - Jul 2019

Founder & Developer
Built a prototype for virtual communities focused on interest-based content sharing.

Tata Consultancy Service April 2019 - June 2019

Blockchain Intern
Developed smart contract management on Ethereum (Solidity) with Angular front-end and Node.js (Express) backend.
Skills Used: Ethereum, Solidity, Node.js (Express), Angular, MongoDB.

Jgi Pvt. Ltd. April 2018 - June 2018

Software Development Engineering Intern
Part of the team responsible for an e-commerce website. Designed and developed the product subscription and vendor management modules.
Skills Used: HTML, CSS, Bootstrap 4, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, jQuery.

Education


Cochin University of Science and Technology Aug 2015 - Apr 2019

B.Tech, Information Technology — CGPA 9.19/10 (Rank 2)

College Projects

  • Cancer Detection (Kaggle) — Built an AI platform using patient medical records and gene data for accurate cancer detection. Tools: NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn.
  • Railway Reservation System — Responsive web app for ticket reservation and cancellation. Stack: HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL.

Contact


If you’d like to get in touch for collaboration, opportunities, or just to say hi, email me at shani.pathak98@gmail.com or connect on LinkedIn.

Certifications & Achievements


  • Consistently recognized at Infoblox for on-time delivery and effective cross-team collaboration.
  • Infoblox Hackathon 2025 Winner — built an agentic AI “DDI Digital Agent” using MCP (host/servers) to automate DDI tasks via natural language; prior hackathons: Honorable Mention.
  • Excellence Award from CEO at Tata Communications.
  • Consistently in top performers at college; scholarships and awards.
  • NPTEL: Data Structures and Algorithms using Python (80%).
  • Qualified NASSCOM Hacker Test for South Regional Skills India 2018 (Web Developer).