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Shiva Ganesh

Experienced DevOps/SRE engineer with 7 years in cloud automation, CI/CD, and observability. Proven track record of reducing toil, optimizing infrastructure, and building scalable solutions across platform.
  • Role

    Sr Site Reliability & Apex Engineer

  • Years of Experience

    7 years

Skillsets

  • Oracle APEX
  • webhooks
  • SQL
  • Redis
  • PLSQL
  • Celery
  • Oracle log explorer
  • Terraform
  • Shell
  • Python
  • Prometheus
  • Oracle Digital Assistant
  • Oracle DB
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Jira
  • Jenkins
  • Grafana
  • GoldenGate
  • gitlab ci
  • Git
  • Generative AI
  • FastAPI
  • Docker
  • Data Warehousing
  • Confluence
  • Chef

Professional Summary

7Years
  • Jan, 2025 - Present1 yr 2 months

    Senior Site Reliability Engineer

    Oracle Hospitality
  • Aug, 2022 - Jan, 20252 yr 5 months

    Senior Software Engineer

    Oracle Retail
  • Jun, 2021 - Jul, 20221 yr 1 month

    Software Engineer 2

    Oracle Retail
  • Jun, 2018 - May, 20212 yr 11 months

    Cloud Automation Intern + Software Engineer 1

    Oracle Retail

Work History

7Years

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Oracle Hospitality
Jan, 2025 - Present1 yr 2 months
    Automated Load Balancer configuration, eliminating manual toil and reducing incident tickets by 30%. Enhanced observability for Autonomous Database provisioning, reducing provisioning error rates by ~20%. Built a transaction observability report to detect long-running queries and trigger alerts, helping proactively prevent failures in batch job executions. Reduced cloud operational cost by 40% by eliminating non-critical standby DBs in non-production.

Senior Software Engineer

Oracle Retail
Aug, 2022 - Jan, 20252 yr 5 months
    Built Jira-Outage Scheduler integration using internal tools and business logic with API support, saving ~10 hrs/week in ticket creation. Designed asynchronous data processing engine using Celery + Redis + Python, cutting data sync latency by 60%. Developed and led architecture of ROPS - Retail Operations, a platform for managing resource, performing operations, planning and alerting using Oracle APEX. Migrated multiple legacy VMs Database to Oracle Autonomous DB, improving availability and reducing manual maintenance.

Software Engineer 2

Oracle Retail
Jun, 2021 - Jul, 20221 yr 1 month
    Built Kubernetes metrics ingestion tool and forecast engine for SaaS provisioning using APEX & SQL modelling. Implemented cloud-native ETL pipelines to extract, transform, and store resource utilization data. Developed bulk upload module for outage schedules; reduced PM manual entry time by 80%. Engineered backup & recovery automation for SaaS outage DB, ensuring <2 min RTO in internal drills.

Cloud Automation Intern + Software Engineer 1

Oracle Retail
Jun, 2018 - May, 20212 yr 11 months
    Revamped patching automation for cloud products; reduced downtime by 60 mins per maintenance window. Delivered config preservation scripts for Ops team; reduced config-related incidents by 40%. Authored SOPs for Gen2 SaaS onboarding; accelerated new team member ramp-up by 30%. Automated SaaS provisioning with Chef-solo on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Simulated and documented DR drills; boosted recovery readiness.

Major Projects

3Projects

AI FAQ Bot

    Chatbot using Oracle Digital Assistant and LLM for SOP lookups; cut dependency on ops support.

Natural Language SQL Bot

    SELECT AI and chatbot to query database using natural language.

SaaS Forecast Tool

    Built forecasting engine to improve provisioning accuracy by 30%.

Education

  • M.E. in Big Data & Data Analytics

    Manipal Academy of Higher Education (2019)
  • B.E. in Information Science

    Visvesvaraya Technological University (2016)