Niharika Dhanik

I'm a Senior Cloud Engineer, with 4+ years of hands-on experience in Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Migrations and the Grafana LGTM Observability stack(enterprise/opensource), and a parallel career in developer relations that I've built through genuine conviction, not job titles.

Since 2022, I've been leading Google Developer Group Cloud Mumbai as Chapter Organizer, growing it to 5,000+ active members across cloud and AI domains. I design the full program - events, speaker pipelines, workshop frameworks, and a continuous feedback practice that synthesizes signals from ~300+ engineers per event cycle into content and documentation decisions. DevFest, Cloud Community Days, recurring technical meetups, I've built the infrastructure that makes all of it run without constant organizer intervention.

On the technical side, I shipped ChatYourOps - an open-source LLM agent integrating Google Gemini's API with Grafana to enable natural-language querying of operational metrics. I built it to solve a real problem I encountered daily, open-sourced it, and presented it as a reference architecture at DevFests across India. The metric I care about isn't talk attendance, it's how many engineers were inspired to go back and built something with the pattern.

I create technical content across formats: conference talks, YouTube (GuysInTheCloud), Medium articles, and enterprise documentation. In my current organisation, I've built onboarding frameworks and Confluence documentation that scaled developer adoption across 4+ engineering teams without recurring support dependency.

My technical stack: Google Cloud, GKE, Grafana OSS (Loki, Tempo, Mimir), Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Python, Bash. My LLM experience: Gemini API, Vertex AI, prompt engineering, AI agent development.

I'm drawn to the intersection of AI infrastructure and developer education, specifically the gap between "this technology is capable" and "developers are actually building with it." Closing that gap is the work I find most meaningful.