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KANISHK
SACHDEVA
Systems Engineer II · Cloud Platform · Guidewire Software
ENTERING PORTFOLIO
✓ BUILD PASSED | ▶ EKS cluster healthy — 3 nodes | ✓ Terraform plan: 0 to destroy | ⚡ DR failover test: initiated | ✓ Helm upgrade complete — guidewire-platform v3.2.1 | ▶ OCM policies synced across 12 clusters | ✓ Flux reconciliation: success | ▶ PagerDuty: all quiet | ✓ BUILD PASSED | ▶ EKS cluster healthy — 3 nodes | ✓ Terraform plan: 0 to destroy | ⚡ DR failover test: initiated | ✓ Helm upgrade complete — guidewire-platform v3.2.1 | ▶ OCM policies synced across 12 clusters | ✓ Flux reconciliation: success | ▶ PagerDuty: all quiet
SYSTEMS ENGINEER II · GUIDEWIRE SOFTWARE

Kanishk
Sachdeva

Platform & Infrastructure Engineer · AWS · Kubernetes · DR Systems
kanishksdv@gmail.com +1 647 784 7008 kanishksachdeva.com linkedin Mississauga, Ontario
// profile.yaml
focus: "Cloud infrastructure, identity, networking, operational reliability"
background: "Support → Platform ops → DR architecture → Multi-cluster systems"
environment: "Large-scale SaaS, AWS EKS, multi-tenant Kubernetes"
current_build: "Failover orchestrator in Java Spring Boot"
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Guidewire Software 05/2026 – Present
Systems Engineer II — Cloud Platform
  • Built a failover orchestrator in Java Spring Boot coordinating DR triggers across clusters, handling sequencing, retries, and failure propagation.
  • Implemented a fan-out trigger system for parallel DR operations across tenant clusters with cross-cluster coordination via Open Cluster Management (OCM).
  • Integrated KubeVela for application lifecycle orchestration during failover — declarative, policy-driven workload promotion across clusters.
  • Designed event-driven workflows for DR state transitions: pre-checks, validation gates, and rollback paths.
  • Debugged complex failure scenarios across distributed systems involving cluster networking, control plane health, and workload scheduling.
Java Spring Boot OCM KubeVela DR Orchestration EKS
Guidewire Software 06/2025 – 01/2026
Career Rotation — Product Development
  • Embedded with product engineering on Guidewire's platform infrastructure team, contributing to multi-cluster EKS architecture design and DR systems.
  • Worked on global RDS infrastructure for multi-tenant data isolation and cross-region failover design.
  • Integrated HolmesGPT for incident triage and root cause correlation, targeting MTTR reduction.
  • Implemented GitOps-driven deployments using Flux for cluster state management across environments.
  • Participated in Terraform-to-Helm/operator migration and early Crossplane-based infrastructure control plane work.
Flux Crossplane RDS GitOps Terraform HolmesGPT
Guidewire Software 05/2023 – 05/2026
Platform Support Engineer III (PSE I → II → III)
  • Operated AWS infrastructure (EKS, VPC, PrivateLink, Transit Gateway) supporting Guidewire's Java-based SaaS platform across multi-tenant environments.
  • Debugged deployment, networking, and authentication issues (EKS, VPC, Okta SSO) across multi-tenant environments.
  • Built internal automation: EKS SQL runner job, PagerDuty–Slack incident bot, multi-cluster CLI.
  • Participated in blameless postmortems and drove root cause analysis for recurring platform incidents.
EKS VPC PrivateLink Okta SSO PagerDuty Python
Guidewire Software 05/2022 – 04/2023
Technical Support Engineer
  • Handled support cases for Guidewire ClaimCenter SaaS — debugging startup failures, third-party integration issues, and configuration errors.
  • Performed log analysis, heap/thread dump triage, and environment-level debugging to isolate root causes.
  • Escalated infrastructure-level issues to platform engineering with detailed reproduction steps and logs.
ClaimCenter Log Analysis JVM Triage
WIMTACH — Centennial College 01/2022 – 04/2022
Student Researcher — Serverless App Developer
  • Built event-driven serverless APIs using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, Neptune, and DynamoDB.
  • Improved API performance through query optimization and caching; integrated CI/CD workflows.
Lambda API Gateway SQS DynamoDB Neptune
STAGE 02 ./skills all systems nominal
kubectl get pods -n kanishk-sachdeva
$kubectl get pods --all-namespaces | grep Running
aws-cloud     EKS/EC2/VPC/RDS/S3/Lambda/PrivateLink   Running
kubernetes-stack   EKS/OCM/KubeVela/Helm/Flux/Crossplane   Running
iac-tooling     Terraform · Crossplane   Running
identity     Okta · SAML · OAuth 2.0   Running
observability     Datadog · CloudWatch · PagerDuty   Running
languages     Java Spring Boot · Python · Go (basic)   Running
networking     VPC · PrivateLink · TGW · DNS · LB   Running
platform-tools     Docker · Linux · Git · GitOps   Running
☁ Cloud — AWS
EKS EC2 VPC RDS S3 Lambda PrivateLink Transit Gateway CloudWatch
⎈ Kubernetes
EKS OCM KubeVela Helm Flux Crossplane
⚙ IaC & GitOps
Terraform Crossplane GitOps Flux Helm
◈ Identity & Auth
Okta SAML OAuth 2.0
◉ Observability
Datadog CloudWatch PagerDuty
{ } Languages
Java Spring Boot Python Go
STAGE 03 ./certifications 4 builds verified
HASHICORP
Terraform Associate
# 814fc60b-d81a-4329-9fc2-cd2066e09c52
AWS
Solutions Architect Associate
# 1b638aa5c3b24ed79507f5469b231151
CNCF
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
# LF-45h95uv78d
GUIDEWIRE
ClaimCenter Certified Specialist
# Guidewire Certification Checker
STAGE 04 ./education ✓ foundation loaded
Toronto Metropolitan University
Honours BSc Computer Science (Part-time) — In Progress
2021 – Expected 2027/28
Centennial College
Software Engineering Technician (Computer Science)
2021 – 2022
⚙ Tweaks
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