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Nishkarsh Raj is a Staff Platform Engineer and 3× GitHub Stars Award winner. He architects multi-cluster Kubernetes platforms, AI-powered FinOps systems, and developer portals at Fortune 500 scale. An SREDay Community Ambassador, he speaks globally on platform engineering and open source.
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Nishkarsh Raj is a Staff Platform Engineer and 3× GitHub Stars Award winner (2021-2023) - one of 100 developers recognized annually by GitHub from their 100M+ community. He architects cloud infrastructure at Fortune 500 scale: multi-cluster Kubernetes with 99.9% uptime SLAs, AI-native FinOps platforms delivering multi-million dollar savings, and developer experience tooling serving 10,000+ engineers. An appointed SREDay Community Ambassador (2026), Nishkarsh speaks at conferences across New York, London, San Francisco, and Seattle on platform engineering, FinOps, and building developer communities.
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Nishkarsh Raj is a Staff Platform Engineer and 3× GitHub Stars Award winner (2021, 2022, 2023) - one of 100 developers recognized annually by Microsoft's GitHub from their 100M+ community for sustained open-source impact and developer community building.
With 6+ years of experience from Day 0 founding engineer to Staff, Nishkarsh delivers business outcomes at Fortune 500 scale across Platform Engineering, FinOps, Developer Experience, and Open Source strategy. His work includes multi-cluster Kubernetes platforms with 99.9% uptime SLAs and 40% cloud cost reductions, AI-native FinOps systems powered by Amazon Bedrock delivering multi-million dollar savings, and enterprise developer platforms serving 10,000+ engineers.
He led architecture for enterprise Backstage.io developer platforms, GitHub Enterprise modernization (Actions, Copilot, Codespaces), and US EO-14028 SBOM compliance across Fortune 500 business units.
An appointed SREDay Community Ambassador (2026), Nishkarsh speaks at SREDay and DevOps Not Dead events across New York, London, San Francisco, and Seattle - on AI-native FinOps, platform engineering at scale, and developer experience. He holds a B.Tech in Computer Science (Gold Medalist, 9.6 CGPA) from UPES - India's first DevOps specialization.
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AI-Native FinOps at Enterprise Scale
How we built an agentic AI system on Amazon Bedrock that scans 19 resource types across AWS and GCP, identifies waste with Claude-powered reasoning, and delivers automated remediation - turning FinOps from a dashboard problem into an engineering solution. Real numbers, real architecture, real savings.
Platform Engineering at Fortune 500 Scale
Lessons from architecting multi-cluster EKS platforms under regulatory constraints - 35-state compliance, namespace isolation, FluxCD + Karpenter reconciliation, and the ARM64 migration that cut costs by 40%. A blueprint for platform teams operating at scale with real compliance requirements.
GitOps & Kubernetes at Scale
From single cluster to multi-cluster fleet management - FluxCD, Karpenter, Helmfile patterns, and the operational reality of managing 130+ nodes across 15 accounts. Practical patterns for teams growing beyond their first cluster.
Building Developer Communities That Last
What three years as a GitHub Star taught me about open-source education, mentoring first-time contributors, and building communities that outlast any single codebase. From classroom to conference - making contribution accessible.