Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan

Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan is a seasoned engineering management professional with over 15 years of hands on experience in managing distributed software development teams. His mission in life to mentor teams to deliver on workflow and cloud native deployment lifecycle automation. He has an entrepreneurial mindset that constantly innovates and delivers within tight time and resource constraints. His strong technology and software development background, combined with his wide industry knowledge and experience in leveraging open source technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and public cloud solutions such as Azure, and AWS, make him a leader in his field.

Shivakumar is author of Kubernetes for Job seekers book. With clear explanations and practical examples, you'll learn everything you need to know about Kubernetes and ace your interview with confidence.

Shivakumar is the co-author of the "Hands-on Kubernetes on Azure" book, now in its third edition. This book is a comprehensive guide to deploying, managing, and scaling applications in Kubernetes clusters on Microsoft Azure. With this book, Shivakumar shares his extensive knowledge of Kubernetes and provides practical insights and best practices for working with the platform.

In addition to his experience as a Principal Staff SRE Engineer at BD, where he applies his skills in Git, Terraform, Python, Docker, Microsoft Azure, DevOps, and Kubernetes, Shivakumar has also served as a Site Reliability Engineering Manager at LinkedIn and Chief DevOps Architect at Varian Medical Systems. Throughout his career, he has made hands-on contributions to infrastructure and service deployment lifecycle automation.

Shivakumar holds a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, as well as a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Anna University and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai.

If you're looking for an authoritative guide to Kubernetes on Azure or want to learn from an experienced engineering leader, be sure to check out Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan's work.