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Sheshank Dudaboina

SRE - AI Infrastructure

Currently @ Baseten Labs

I've spent 8+ years making distributed systems more reliable, from Linux fleets to multi-cloud Kubernetes and model-serving platforms. I care about observability, reducing on-call toil, and keeping high-throughput systems boring in production.

01.Experience

May 12, 2026 – Present
SRE - AI Infrastructure
Baseten Labs

Building reliability for AI model serving infrastructure across Kubernetes, GPU fleets, multi-cloud platforms, and the observability systems that keep high-throughput inference workloads healthy.

AWSGCPKubernetesGrafanaVictoria MetricsTerraformincident.io
Aug 2024 – May 2026
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
ObserveAI

Built and operated production reliability systems for AI and customer-facing platforms. Improved Kubernetes operations, observability coverage, incident response, and automation for engineering teams.

KubernetesPrometheusGKEDatadogPagerDutyTerraform
June 2019 – June 2024
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer
Sony PlayStation

Operated large-scale infrastructure and production services, modernized Linux and container workflows, built CI/CD pipelines, and improved on-call practices for reliability-critical systems.

LinuxDockerAWS EC2AnsibleNew RelicJenkins
September 2018 – June 2019
Site Reliability Engineer
Venmo

Supported reliability for production services, improved operational workflows, and contributed to monitoring, automation, and incident response practices for customer-facing systems.

LinuxAWSMonitoringAutomationIncident Response

02.Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure
  • AWS (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC)
  • GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, BigQuery)
  • Terraform
  • Pulumi
  • Ansible
Containers & Orchestration
  • Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, self-managed)
  • Helm
  • ArgoCD
  • Docker
  • Kustomize
Observability
  • Grafana
  • Victoria Metrics
  • Prometheus
  • Loki
  • Grafana Alloy
  • Tempo
  • Datadog
  • New Relic
Incident Management
  • incident.io
  • PagerDuty
  • SLO/SLI/Error budgets
  • Post-mortem facilitation
Languages & Tools
  • Go
  • Python
  • Bash
  • TypeScript
  • SQL
  • PromQL/MetricsQL
  • LogQL

03.Certifications

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Issued Apr 2024Expires Apr 2027
Linux Essentials Certification
Linux Professional Institute (LPI)
Issued Sep 2025
Developing on AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Issued May 2023
Running Containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (AWS EKS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Issued Mar 2023
Developing with Splunk's REST API
Splunk
Issued Feb 2020
Solutions Architect Associate (SAA)
Amazon Web Services
Issued Aug 2018
Certified system administrator
ServiceNow
Issued Jun 2018
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Issued Nov 2025Expires Nov 2028

I write about what I learn on the job.

SRE / Kubernetes / GPU platforms / Observability

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