Saai Sudarsanan

Senior Software Engineer I at Swym Corporation. Three years of Kubernetes, observability, and platform engineering — now building AI ops tooling. Pursuing OMSCS at Georgia Tech.

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The Arc

Intern → Senior SWE I in 3 years
Jan 2023InternSwym Corporation
Jul 2023ASESwym Corporation
Jan 2025SWE ISwym Corporation
Mar 2026Sr. SWE ISwym Corporationcurrent

Key Milestones

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Apr 2026·AI / Platform

Alfred — Internal AI Ops Assistant

Built Swym's AI operations assistant from scratch in ~9 days. Lives in Slack, thinks with Gemini.

Nov 2025·Reliability / Scale

BFCM 2025 — 1.01M Peak RPM

Handled Black Friday / Cyber Monday peak traffic of 1.01M RPM on Kubernetes. Zero incidents.

Oct 2025·Observability

Self-Serve Monitoring Platform

Built a fully self-serve, multi-team monitoring platform using Thanos, kube-prometheus-stack, and custom exporters.

Jun–Sep 2025·Infrastructure

Full Infrastructure Modernization — 3 New AKS Clusters

Designed and migrated all Swym workloads to 3 new AKS clusters — prod, staging, ops — built from scratch.

Feb 2026·Infrastructure / Cost

AG4C Migration — $120/day Saved

Migrated swym-store (all tiers) to Azure Application Gateway for Containers, cutting $120/day in infra costs.

Mar 2026·AI / Observability

MCP-Gateway for Observability

Unified MCP server exposing Jaeger, OpenSearch, and Prometheus as one AI-accessible endpoint with PII redaction.

Skills

By domain

Infrastructure & Orchestration

Kubernetes (AKS)Helm v2ArgoCDArgo RolloutsDockerTerraformKarpenterVPA / KEDA

Observability & Reliability

PrometheusGrafanaThanosJaegerOpenTelemetryFluentBit / FluentdOpenSearchAlertmanagerIncident Response

Cloud & Networking

Azure Cloud (AKS, VMSS, VNet)Azure AG4CGateway APINetworking & Load BalancingAzure Key VaultAzure AD / RBAC

AI & Automation

MCP / FastMCPGemini 2.5 FlashLangGraphLangChainAI AgentsSlack BotsPython Automation

CI/CD & Development

JenkinsGitHub ActionsCI/CD PipelinesClojurePythonGolangNode.jsBash Scripting

Security & Compliance

SOC2 ComplianceSecret ManagementVulnerability AnalysisPenetration TestingCEHISC2 CC

Education

Master of Science, Computer Science (OMSCS)

Georgia Institute of Technology

2025 – PresentIn Progress

B.Tech, Information Technology

SASTRA Deemed University

2019 – 2023

Notable Projects

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Alfred

Internal AI ops assistant for Swym — Gemini 2.5 Flash agentic loop with MCP tool access to production Kubernetes, Prometheus, Jaeger, OpenSearch, and GitHub. Thread-level and long-term memory, human approval gates, proactive idle research. Built in ~9 days. Deployed on Kubernetes.

[Gemini 2.5 Flash][MCP][Kubernetes][Python][Redis Streams][Slack]

MCP-Gateway

Unified FastMCP gateway exposing Jaeger, OpenSearch, and Prometheus as one AI tool endpoint. Supports namespace filtering and includes PII redaction middleware before responses reach the LLM.

[MCP][FastMCP][Observability][Python][PII Redaction]

ilogu3000

Benchmarking suite for Clojure logging frameworks. Identified significant CPU overhead from pformat pretty-printing and proved the fix — reducing log size and JVM GC pressure in production.

[Clojure][JVM][Benchmarking][Java VisualVM]

turinglib

Lightweight Python library for building and simulating Turing Machines. Object-oriented interface for defining tape symbols, actions, states, and state machines.

[Python][Theoretical CS][Turing Machines]

Certifications

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
ISC2: Certified in Cybersecurity
Google Cybersecurity Specialization
Data Science Professional Certificate
Python for Everybody Specialization
Competitive Strategy
Advanced Competitive Strategy
Strategic Organization Design

Writing

22 articles across Medium, LinkedIn & Substack
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