Suket Sharma
Principal Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSuket Sharma is a Principal Software Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling, currently based in Seattle and working at NVIDIA after a long tenure at AWS. He has deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes and EKS, contributing to high-impact open-source projects like Karpenter and the amazon-eks-ami packer configs where he implemented AMI selection, launch template enhancements, and kubelet pod-density tooling. Known for bridging backend engineering, DevOps, and cloud automation, he has repeatedly solved production pain points around node lifecycle, resource limits, and GPU support. Suket combines strong systems design with practical scripting and automation skills, and his background includes an MS in Computer Science from UCLA and early full-stack experience integrating OAuth and React in AWS tooling.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at Pune Institute of Computer TechnologyUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (25)
amazon-eks10
kubernetes10
docker10
scripting10
cloud-infrastructure10
dockers10
automation10
containerd10
script10
go10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
infrastructure-as-code10
automations10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/amazon-eks-ami
Jan 2021 - Jun 2022
Packer configuration for building a custom EKS AMI
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:5 releases, 39 reviews, 11 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Suket primarily focused on infrastructure and automation tasks within the Amazon EKS AMI build process. They developed a utility script for calculating max pods for kubelet, which involved shell scripting and integration with AWS EC2 metadata service. Further contributions include enhancing the bootstrap script with container runtime configuration support and integrating GPU-related helper scripts. They also added nvidia-bug-report to eks-logs-collector to collect relevant system data.
packer
aws/karpenter-provider-aws
Oct 2021 - Jul 2022
Karpenter is a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity.
Role in this project:Backend Developer & Cloud Engineer
Backend Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:263 reviews, 37 commits, 69 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Suket primarily contributed to the AWS provider for Karpenter, specifically adding support for features like tags and AMI selectors. They implemented changes in launch template creation, resource validation, and user data integration to support functionalities like custom AMIs and custom user data for Bottlerocket. The user also addressed issues related to node liveness and resource limits.
karpenterkubernetes-node
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