I'm Nishkarsh Raj — Staff Platform Engineer with 6+ years architecting cloud infrastructure. Multi-cluster Kubernetes, high-throughput data pipelines, and AI-powered FinOps that has delivered $7M in savings.
I design and run the infrastructure that engineering organizations build on. At Caesars Entertainment, that means a multi-cluster EKS platform spanning 100+ Graviton nodes and 15 AWS accounts, engineered for regulatory compliance across 35 US states — with namespace isolation per state and custom node provisioning that reconciles FluxCD and Karpenter.
I care about platforms that pay for themselves: an ARM64 migration that cut compute costs by 40%, an AI-powered FinOps engine on AWS Bedrock that surfaced $2M in annual savings, and Kafka connector topology tuning that halved Snowflake API calls at 99.9% uptime.
Before that, I built an enterprise Backstage.io developer platform for 2,000+ engineers, unified observability across Broadcom's acquisitions (1M+ deployment events a day), and led zero-downtime GitHub Enterprise migrations. Open source runs deep — Microsoft has recognized me as a GitHub Star three years running.
Six years of shipping platforms that engineers love and CFOs approve of.
The tools I reach for when infrastructure needs to scale, stream, and stay observable.
Recognition from the community and the platforms I build on.
Recognized by Microsoft in 2021, 2022 & 2023 for open-source impact
Certified · Feb 2023
Certified · Jan 2023
Certified · Dec 2022
B.Tech Computer Science, UPES · 9.6 CGPA · Dean's List, all semesters
Whether it's platform engineering at scale, open source, or a speaking opportunity — my inbox is open.