> name        : Ananta Srivastava
> role        : Cloud & Platform Engineer @ FICO
> focus       : Event Streaming Infrastructure
> domains     : Distributed Systems • Kubernetes • Reliability
> stack       : Pulsar • Kafka • AWS • GitOps
> experience  : 3+ years
> status      : shipping production infrastructure
  

Cloud & Platform Engineer at FICO building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.

Focused on:

• Apache Pulsar platform engineering
• Kafka infrastructure on AWS
• Kubernetes-based platform operations
• GitOps-driven infrastructure delivery
• Reliability engineering and incident response
• Distributed systems debugging at scale
• Open source contributions to Apache Pulsar

                         ┌──────────────────────┐
                         │     GitHub Actions   │
                         │        CI/CD         │
                         └──────────┬───────────┘
                                    │
                                    ▼
                         ┌──────────────────────┐
                         │        ArgoCD        │
                         │    GitOps Delivery   │
                         └──────────┬───────────┘
                                    │
               ┌────────────────────┼────────────────────┐
               ▼                    ▼                    ▼
      ┌────────────────┐  ┌────────────────┐  ┌────────────────┐
      │ Apache Pulsar  │  │ Apache Kafka   │  │ Kubernetes     │
      │ Brokers        │  │ Infrastructure │  │ Platform Ops   │
      └────────────────┘  └────────────────┘  └────────────────┘
               ┌────────────────────┼────────────────────┐
                                    ▼
                     ┌─────────────────────────┐
                     │ Observability Stack     │
                     │ Prometheus • Grafana    │
                     │ OTEL • Splunk           │
                     └─────────────────────────┘
  

• Deploy and operate Apache Pulsar on Kubernetes
• Manage brokers, BookKeeper, and cluster lifecycle
• Production scaling, upgrades, and reliability
• Multi-tenant event streaming infrastructure
• Cell-Based Architecture (CBA) environments

• Operate production Kafka clusters on AWS
• SSL/TLS security and key rotations
• Performance tuning and distributed debugging
• Infrastructure provisioning and automation

Worked on observability implementations involving:

• Grafana dashboards
• Prometheus monitoring
• OTEL pipelines
• Splunk integrations
• Alerting systems and incident automation

• ArgoCD-driven deployments
• GitHub Actions CI/CD
• Infrastructure automation pipelines
• Drift-free environments using GitOps

• Incident debugging
• Production outage handling
• Alert pipelines integrated with ServiceNow
• MTTR reduction through automation

Repository: apache/pulsar-site

Contributions:

• Upgrade Observability Checklist documentation
• Review support for community PRs
• Documentation improvements for Pulsar operations
• Collaboration with Apache Pulsar maintainers
• Release tooling concepts for incremental release notes

+ 15× Spot Award Winner @ FICO
+ Operated production-grade Pulsar/Kafka environments
+ Built GitOps-driven deployment systems
+ Designed incident alerting workflows
+ Improved platform observability & reliability
+ Open source contributor to Apache Pulsar