I hold a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from San Jose State University. My career in cloud technologies began as a Junior Cloud Support Engineer at Platform9, where I was first introduced to cloud infrastructure and earned my Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification. Following this, I joined Tamr, where I spent nearly four years advancing from Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Sr. SRE). During my tenure at Tamr, I obtained my Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification and gained extensive experience in cloud technologies, infrastructure automation, and system reliability. I worked across a wide range of tools and technologies, including GCP, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, GitOps (FluxCD/Flagger), Helm, Harness CD, Ansible, Python, Jenkins, and Linux. I also had the responsibility of managing Tamr's monitoring and observability stack for three years, while driving automation initiatives to reduce operational overhead and minimize manual errors through Python and Bash scripting. Now, I am excited to transition into the AI sector with my new role at Crusoe. This marks an important step in my career, as I look forward to leveraging my cloud engineering experience to tackle new challenges in AI. If there is a chance to form a connection, please find me at apeksha.khilari@gmail.com