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Rishabh Sharma

Cloud Native Engineer

Platform & Cloud-Native Engineering

Software Engineer | Golang • Kubernetes • Distributed Systems

Senior Software engineer with 4+ years of experience building scalable cloud-native applications, Golang microservices, and enterprise backend systems with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and secure service communication.

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Metrics Snapshot

Experience4+ Years
CurrentDell Technologies
InfraKubernetes

About

Building Systems That Scale

Senior backend and platform engineer building enterprise cloud systems that demand reliability, operational clarity, and long-term maintainability. Experience spans scalable Golang services, Kubernetes-based delivery, secure service communication, customer platform workflows, and production operations across distributed environments.

  • Owns backend features across design, implementation, debugging, testing, deployment, and production support.
  • Works comfortably across platform services, Kubernetes operations, observability, and customer-facing product workflows.
  • Prefers clear systems, low-friction operations, and maintainable service design over unnecessary complexity.

Highlights

Selected Projects

ARCH_V.2.04

Private Cloud

Private Cloud Cluster Lifecycle Platform

Actively contributing to a private cloud platform for the Nutanix offering by developing backend services that automate cluster provisioning, infrastructure configuration, and lifecycle management across deployment and ongoing operational workflows.

  • Build and maintain services responsible for cluster creation, lifecycle management, and operational workflows after initial deployment.
  • Support critical setup flows that prepare environments for successful provisioning and handoff into managed operations.
  • Strengthen delivery quality through debugging, test validation, and operational improvements across multi-step platform workflows.
Open Project Brief
GoKubernetesPrivate Cloud
Platform Automation

Client Onboarding System

Built a backend onboarding workflow that connected client environments to the platform and eliminated manual operational effort from the process.

  • Automated onboarding steps that previously depended on manual coordination, creating a more scalable and reliable platform workflow.
  • Improved maintainability and operational clarity by simplifying the path from client registration to active platform integration.
  • Reduced friction for platform adoption by turning a manual setup sequence into a repeatable service-driven workflow.
Open Project Brief
AutomationGoPlatform Services
Platform Security

Identity Validation System

Develop and maintain an identity system responsible for establishing trusted communication and validating secure identity flows between client systems and the platform.

  • Built and shipped new backend features while managing deployments and ensuring successful release execution.
  • Diagnosed and resolved complex failures across distributed systems through structured root-cause analysis.
  • Strengthened observability and validation practices for production readiness.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to diagnose issues and ensure smooth platform integration.
Open Project Brief
SecurityVerificationBackend Services
Customer Platform

Cloud Management Portal

Built scalable services for a customer management portal handling invoicing, billing workflows, user access management, and multilingual product delivery.

  • Supported frontend and service workflows that enabled customer device management and account operations at scale.
  • Developed a new customer access-key capability and contributed to billing and invoice-related platform services.
  • Expanded product reach by helping deliver translations across 13 languages.
Open Project Brief
ReactBillingLocalization
Platform Observability

Device Health Monitoring portal

Developed a monitoring and observability portal that surfaced operational health, performance metrics, and infrastructure insights for customer-managed environments.

  • Maintained portal workflows aligned with backend health and monitoring capabilities.
  • Helped sustain a user experience centered on operational clarity, reliability, and actionable system visibility.
  • Supported a product surface that translated monitoring signals into clearer customer-facing system insights.
Open Project Brief
AngularMonitoringPython
Early Career

On-Prem Automation Platform

Integrated automation and observability capabilities for infrastructure-oriented platform workflows during an early engineering role at Dell Technologies.

  • Created serverless automation functions for infrastructure task execution and repeatable operational workflows.
  • Enhanced system observability and operational visibility through Kubernetes-integrated monitoring and centralized logging using Fluentd and Prometheus.
  • Strengthened platform operations by making core automation and diagnostic flows easier to run and support.
Open Project Brief
OpenFaaSPrometheusFluentd

Timeline

Experience Logs

Senior Software Engineer

Dell Technologies

Apr 2026 — Present

  • Lead backend contributions for a private cloud platform for the Nutanix offering, focused on the services that provision, configure, and manage customer clusters.
  • Own platform workflows across deployment and day-two operations, with responsibility spanning implementation, debugging, testing, rollout support, and production reliability.
  • Improve operational readiness by strengthening automation paths, reducing manual effort, and stabilizing multi-step cluster lifecycle workflows.
  • Collaborate across platform and service boundaries to keep the system maintainable, scalable, and production-ready as the offering evolves.

Software Engineer

Dell Technologies

Jul 2021 — Mar 2026

  • Design and deliver scalable backend services for enterprise cloud platforms, with end-to-end ownership across architecture, implementation, debugging, testing, deployment, and production support.
  • Build Golang microservices and platform workflows for client onboarding, trust verification, cluster lifecycle management, and secure service communication.
  • Drive operational efficiency by eliminating manual platform steps, refining service behavior, and improving reliability in production environments.
  • Deploy and operate services on Kubernetes through CI/CD pipelines, while resolving production issues and maintaining high service availability.
  • Contribute to customer-facing product workflows across access management, billing, invoicing, localization, and portal usability improvements.

Intern

Dell Technologies

Jul 2020 — Jun 2021

  • Developed serverless automation functions for infrastructure-oriented tasks and repeatable platform workflows.
  • Improved observability by integrating monitoring into Kubernetes-based deployments.
  • Enhanced logging quality and operational signal clarity through better filtering mechanisms.

Toolbox

Tech Stack Inventory

LaGolang
ArMicroservices
PlKubernetes
CoDocker
CoREST API
ToGit
FrReactJS
ObSplunk
ObDynatrace
ObPrometheus
ObGrafana

Architecture Notes

Design Principles

API Design

Design APIs for maintenance, not just launch

Stable naming, narrow payloads, and explicit contracts make backend systems easier to evolve when teams change.

Reliability

Observability is part of feature completeness

Logging, metrics, and failure visibility belong in the first version of a service, not after the first outage.

Architecture

Operational simplicity compounds over time

A smaller platform surface area often unlocks faster onboarding, debugging, and incident recovery than heavier abstractions.

Connect

Start a technical conversation

For backend engineering, platform work, or distributed systems opportunities, reach out directly by email.