About Shikha
- MLOps pipelines
- LLM app deployment
- AWS/GCP/Azure infra for AI workloads
- CI/CD for ML models
- Docker/Kubernetes/Triton/ONNX/PyTorch deployment
- Monitoring, scaling, cost optimization for AI systems
- Automation around RAG/search/query systems
- Configuration Automation: Utilising Chef for efficient & automated config management.
- RAG LLM Evaluation, Prompt versioning.
- Performance/Load testing (using Blazemeter),
- GITOps : For managing Application configurations
- Cost Optimisation: Strategically reducing AI, Cloud expenses in AWS, Azure, GCP
- Observability: Monitoring and analysis through Splunk, CloudWatch, Prometheus and Grafana.
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Experience
- ZoopAI Platform engineerTECHSeptember 2025 - Today (11 months)Dubai - United Arab Emirates
- MLOps — Model Serving with NVIDIA Triton Inference Server
Built an end-to-end MLOps pipeline for Zoop to deploy ONNX and PyTorchmodels on NVIDIA Triton Inference Server (Docker, REST/gRPC), withPrometheus + Grafana monitoring of latency and throughput. Improvedthroughput ~1.8x via async requests and dynamic batching, and scaledto GPU inference on an Azure NC-series VM.- **Created infrastructure for AI Recommendation system-
Also created infra for vector embedding storage, indexing etc.- Build an end-to-end AI medical chatbot-
Used Hugging Face LLMs and embeddings, a FAISS vector store, PDFdata source, Flask frontend, and a dockerized CI/CD pipelines on AWS. - TetherAI Devops engineer - FreelanceTECHNovember 2025 - May 2026 (6 months)Dubai - United Arab Emirates
- Worked Tether AI SDK health project called QVAC- * Created and managed 140+ Github actions CI workflows for deploying AI applications on Cloud.
- Created n8n setup for automated provisioning of GPU VMs on GCP servers.
- Supported opensourcing initiative of QVAC projects and mitigate all issues resulting from private to public Github repo.
- AyraaPrincipal DevOps engineerTECHJuly 2023 - Today (3 years and 1 month)Dubai - United Arab Emirates
- Worked as an MLOPs engineer for Ayraa, AI Workplace Search and query RAG-based App Developed and maintained in Kubernetes environments.
- Wrote business logic and automation using with Claude, OpenAI SDKs.
- Worked on prompt engineering, prompt storage/retrieval for Knowledge search purposes.
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Education
- Solutions ArchitectSolutions Architect
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)The Linux FoundationCertified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)