Qaif Shaikh
Site Reliability Engineer at Motive Inc.
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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RockstarQaif Shaikh is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Mumbai with five years of experience building and automating scalable, highly reliable cloud-native systems. Currently at Motive, he blends software engineering with infrastructure ownership—driving CI/CD, platform automation, and internal proof-of-concept designs to reduce toil and improve reliability. His background includes building TerraStax to automate EKS deployments and preconfigured logging/monitoring stacks, and practical experience configuring Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, and ELK components via Helm. He started as a web developer and moved through testing and CI optimizations, giving him a pragmatic full-stack perspective on reliability and deployment pipelines. Known for automating repetitive work and improving build performance, he pairs a master’s in CS from University of Washington Bothell with hands-on operational craft.
5 years of coding experience
Github Skills (45)
kubernetes10
linux10
docker-compose9
docker9
efficientnet9
carrierwave8
background-process8
nix8
automl7
nixos7
go7
object-detection7
apache-kafka7
nixpkgs6
kafka-consumer6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
KeepTruckin/git-lfs
Mar 2023 - Feb 2026
Git extension for versioning large files
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
KeepTruckin/test-infra
Jun 2022 - Feb 2026
Test infrastructure for the Kubernetes project.
Contributions:4 PRs, 7 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 8 months
testingkubernetesinfrastructuretest-infrastructure
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