Hi, I'm Vishodu Shaozae
I design, deploy and manage solutions.
About Me
I'm a DevOps engineer living in Bangalore, interested in streamlining software to enhance people's lives. Earlier I co-founded a creator-focused platform where I led architecture, infrastructure, and product delivery, and I also contribute to an Open Source Project called Img-Dash that enables cloud companies to manage their VM resources better. Previously at To The New, I architected cloud solutions that optimized infrastructure for major MNCs. I began my career in software development, learned developer pipelines from the inside, then moved into the world of cloud and DevOps where I honed my problem-solving skills and applied them in my approach to cloud solutions. As an engineer, I enjoy the process of learning and hyperfocusing on solutions. I value gritty optimisations backed by resourcefulness. Outside of engineering, I love running and spend my time exploring new dishes to fuel my next run. I also volunteer at my local church, where I lead the design effort and manage media. Beyond that, I obsess about Tottenham Hotspur, well-executed animated sequences, and Xbox. If you want to chat, feel free to reach out.
Experience
VERS3, Bengaluru, India
- Technical Co-Founder Aug 2023 - Apr 2025
- Served as a Technical Co-Founder and built a community-first platform aimed at empowering Indian content creators to monetise content.
- Designed the end-to-end system architecture for a scalable, cloud-hosted platform supporting high concurrency and content delivery across a distributed user base.
- Managed investor outreach; participated in accelerator programs and onboarded creators totalling 3.2 million followers. Also led fundraising for the Friends & Family round.
- Led product strategy, user research, and platform design focused on creators in Indian markets.
- Oversaw full product development lifecycle - while managing a cross-functional team of designers and developers.
To The New, Noida, India
- Support Team Lead July 2022 - May 2023
- Led a team of support engineers as an L3 in resolving critical customer incidents with SLA adherence and maintenance of production systems.
- Acted as an escalation point for high-impact technical issues as well as the client facing entity.
- Implemented POCs, streamlined workflows, and third-party integrations to reduce MTTR and improve incident response.
- Mentored junior support engineers and conducted regular knowledge-sharing sessions in DevOps tools and practices.
To The New, Noida, India
- Cloud DevOps Engineer Jan 2021 - July 2022
- Implemented complete migration of legacy systems to serverless with 100% uptime.
- Designed and managed numerous multi-tier hybrid application AEM infrastructure with complete CI/CD infrastructures with 99.99% uptime.
- Developed and maintained automation scripts for EC2 architectures, resulting in a 40% reduction in manual work hours on repetitive operational tasks for a major OTT platform.
- Developed cloud cost optimisation strategies, resulting in an 8% reduction in cloud costs for an environment.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to maintain cloud security best practices and provide root cause analysis and permanent fixes for recurring production incidents.
To The New, Noida, India
- Software Engineer Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
Served as a SDE for a client service technology company providing digitisation to enterprise clients, where I worked on client timelines and deliverables.
- Developed scalable and high-performance components under Java Management Extensions (JMX) architecture for a flagship Govt. of India initiative.
- Implemented caching techniques for Adobe AEM architecture, resulting in improved application performance.
- Designed and implemented custom AEM servlets to expose JCR content as RESTful endpoints for third-party integrations.
GeeksforGeeks, Noida, India
- Summer Internship (12-week program) May 2019 - July 2019
Operated as a technical scripter for a computer science portal, where I learned to perform in a professional capacity within the IT sector.
- Created 50+ detailed design documentations, well-documented code, and guidelines utilised by the company and its platform.
- Developed, tested, and validated 25+ LINUX-centric components to be published globally.
Recent Project
As a DevOps engineer, managing VM images across AWS, Azure, and GCP was an inconvenient task.
The problem was just annoying enough to bother me consistently, but not frustrating enough for businesses to invest
significant effort into solving it. Since no one else had tackled it the way I wanted, I decided to build it myself.
To scratch this itch, I developed Img-Dash, a centralized dashboard that simplifies VM image management.
Img-Dash fetches and stores image data, tracks VM usage, and allows you to manage contextual information
effortlessly.
Built with Python (Flask) and React (Vite) for fast shipping and containerized
with Docker for ease of usage.
To get started, configure your environment variables and run the application using Docker.
Img-Dash will be accessible locally, providing a unified interface to manage your
VM images efficiently.
For more details, check out the GitHub repository.
Other Projects
Hyper Parameter optimisation in near real time for Blind Source Separation
Blind Source Separation performed on multi-dimensional data to remove disturbances from images using Neural Network. We aimed to find an optimised value of the parameter and increase the processing speed of Blind Source Separation algorithm using parallel processing.
Indian Sign Language translation using Convolutional Neural Network
Developed a real-time application using machine learning to translate Indian sign language gestures captured via webcam, achieving 90% accuracy in predicting sign language alphabets.
OCR engine-based Android application to solve mathematical equations in real time
A simple, user-friendly Android application that solves mathematical equations in real time using our custom variant of Tesseract (an open-source OCR engine).
Other Publications
Simplified AEM Automation with cURL and RUBY
Administrators often require automation in AEM tasks. Leveraging the RESTful nature of its Sling framework, cURL simplifies automation. Here we take an in-depth look at its workings and shortcomings, as well as RUBY being a viable substitution.
Blog
I also write technical blogs (mostly) in my free time Feel free to check them out
Contact
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