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Siddhant Khisty

@siddhantkhisty

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Cloud-native solutions engineer specializing in GitOps, Kubernetes, and observability.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek a hands-on role building scalable GitOps and observability solutions within collaborative teams, where I can mentor engineers, deliver customer-facing demos, and drive platform adoption.

I am a cloud-native solutions engineer with hands-on experience architecting Kubernetes-based service meshes, GitOps pipelines, and observability stacks. I have delivered customer-facing demos, POCs, and workshops that helped enterprises adopt scalable multi-environment CI/CD and telemetry practices.

I have contributed to open source projects and community newsletters, led developer programs and events, and built practical tooling such as a high-performance Go email validator. I hold the CKA and KCNA certifications and consistently produce technical content and talks to drive adoption of cloud-native best practices.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Solutions Engineer

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Freelance

Jul 2021 - Present (4 years 2 months)

Architected Istio- and Cilium-based service meshes across multiple Kubernetes clusters, implemented OpenTelemetry pipelines and GitOps with ArgoCD to improve observability and deployment reliability for client environments.

Kubernetes Istio Cilium)OpenTelemetry ArgoCD Helm GitOps Docker

Product Executive

Devtron

May 2024 - Aug 2025 (1 year 3 months)

Delivered 20+ product demos, POCs, and workshops on GitOps and CI/CD while supporting sales technical evaluations and contributing FluxCD integration and onboarding documentation to accelerate enterprise adoption.

GitOps CI CD Flux CD Helm Kubernetes Product Demos Technical Writing

Developer Advocate

SigLens

Jan 2024 - Mar 2024 (2 months)

Improved onboarding documentation and delivered technical talks to reduce setup friction for SigLens integrations with OpenTelemetry in cloud and Kubernetes environments.

OpenTelemetry Kubernetes Technical Documentation Developer Advocacy Onboarding

Developer Programs Lead

WeMakeDevs

Jul 2021 - Aug 2023 (2 years 1 month)

Led developer programs, organizing 30+ community events and monthly workshops that trained 1,000+ developers in Kubernetes, CI/CD, and GitOps while managing community content and mentorship initiatives.

Community Management Kubernetes GitOps CI CD Workshop Facilitation Content Strategy Mentorship

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Sandip University, Nashik

Bachelor of Computer Applications, Computer Applications

Grade: 8.6/10

Completed a Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) with a focus on software development and computer systems, graduating in 2023 with a strong academic record.