# Manoj Thakkar

> Principal Eng AI/AV Infra @Nvidia.Navigating uncharted waters in AI and autonomous driving with code and can do attitude.

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/manojthakkar

A developer at heart and mind who loves to solve Infrastructure and operations via code.
Solving infrastructure and devops problems with api first and self service approach.
Deliver data driven / self service solutions to CI/CD and SRE.
Deliver a deterministic and self healing Infrastructure using AI.
Lead with a walk the talk, mentor others and multiply yourself approach.
Hands on Devops/SRE Engineer with expertise in python/bash/groovy/Java.
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
Running and scaling production services using Docker and Kubernetes.
AWS Architect (Implemented Infrastructure/Platform as Service)
Designed and Implemented Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery.
Logging/Monitoring/Analytics solution for both Infrastructure and Application stack.
Creating and deploying micro services using Docker and k8s.
Deliver a well operated and automated CI/CD with 
Person with a can Do & nothing is Impossible attitude.

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ NVIDIA
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Exploring new frontiers in AI infra and autonomous driving with an adventurous spirit and an unwavering commitment to progress.

### Member Technical Advisory Board @ bayware.io
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Technical advisor to bayware.io team, taking a stab at multi cloud service mesh. It's amazing tech. check it out. https://youtu.be/pTAD0dV3vUg.

### Software Engineering Lead @ Meta
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California

### Staff Engineer(Devops Lead) @ Nutanix
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Building a cloud native platform which can serve the needs for a hybrid cloud.

### Devops Lead (Software Engineer) @ Cloudera
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Hands on Engineer designing/implementing/treating Infrastructure as Code.
Infrastructure logging/monitoring/analytics in Cloud
Micro services using Docker & Kubernetes.
Designing/Implementing Solutions for Build/Releases/Test Infrastructure.
CI/CD using cloud and microservices.
Creating Infrastructure Automation from ground up, collaborating with Release management/Product management and Test Infrastructure.
Automation and tooling using python/groovy/bash
Leading teams to deliver an invisible transparent automated infrastructure.

### Staff Software Engineer(Build/Release and Tools) @ Intuit
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Principal Build Release Engineer @ Informatica
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013

### Sr. Associate(Tools & Build/Release) @ Barclays Global Investors
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010

### Sr. Software Engineer @ Fidelity Investments
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008

### Sr. Release Engineer @ Sony Ericsson
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/manoj-thakkar-6583b46

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Source: https://flows.cv/manojthakkar
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/manojthakkar/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-12