Karthikeyan Shanmugam

Distinguished Architect & Technical Leader – Platform Modernization | Distributed Systems | AI-driven Engineering

    I'm Distinguished Architect & Technical Leader

    Karthikeyan is a Distinguished Architect & Solutions Leader with over 24+ years of experience in modernizing enterprise-scale systems, building distributed platforms, and guiding large engineering organizations through digital transformation. Proven success in defining modernization strategies, leading cloud-native adoption, and embedding technical excellence across domains.

    Expert in translating business vision into scalable, secure, and performant architectures. Skilled at reducing technical debt, driving standardization, and improving developer experience. Passionate about mentoring senior engineers and fostering innovation.

     

    Author of Kubernetes book IoT Edge computing with MicroK8s (Packt Publishing, UK) and featured contributor in Canonical’s Kubernetes & Cloud Native Operations Report (2021–2022).

     

    Contributing author in leading journals such as InfoQ, ContainerJournal, DevOps.com, TheNewStack & Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF.io) blog. His articles on emerging technologies (includes Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices, Cloud-native development, etc.) can be read on his blog upnxtblog.com.

    My Book

    Here’s my book ‘IoT Edge Computing with MicroK8s’ that covers all the real-world use cases, scenarios to help you successfully develop and run applications and mission-critical workloads using Kubernetes

     

    This edition has 400+ pages of real-world use cases, scenarios to help you successfully develop and run applications and mission-critical workloads using MicroK8s.

     

    Some of the key topics covered in this book :

     

    1. Implementing AI/ML use cases with the Kubeflow platform
    2. Service mesh integrations using Istio and Linkerd
    3. Running serverless applications using Knative and OpenFaaS frameworks
    4. Managing Storage Replication with OpenEBS replication engine
    5. Resisting Component Failure Using HA Clusters
    6. Securing your containers using Kata and strict confinement options