Principal Architect · AI-native platforms

Hi,I’mSiva.

I build AI-native systems on solid cloud foundations — and the platforms that let teams ship them.

Husband to Deepika, dad to two girls, grounded by faith. I speak and write about what I learn.

Sivamuthu Kumar
Since 2008

What I do

I help engineering teams build AI-native systems on solid cloud foundations — agentic platforms, LLM applications, and the Kubernetes and developer platforms that run them.

I write & speak about

AWS✦Kubernetes✦Platform Engineering✦AI-Native Systems✦DevOps✦AWS✦Kubernetes✦Platform Engineering✦AI-Native Systems✦DevOps✦
Cloud Security✦Dapr✦Terraform✦Observability✦IoT & Edge✦Cloud Security✦Dapr✦Terraform✦Observability✦IoT & Edge✦
years shipping software
18+
years shipping software
articles published
37
articles published
talks given
42
talks given
conferences & meetups
34
conferences & meetups

Writing

Latest articles

Amazon EKS Security Assessment - Kube Bench

Amazon EKS Security Assessment - Kube Bench

Introduction The Center for Internet Security provides many guidelines and benchmark tests for best practices in securing your code. The CIS has published a benchmark for Kubernetes. The kube-bench is an open-source tool that checks whether Kubernete...

EKS Observability Blueprint

EKS Observability Blueprint

Observability is an essential part of any cloud-native environment. When it comes to Amazon EKS clusters, observability is an even more critical factor. This blog post will explore how you can provision an observability landscape to monitor and manag...

Talks

On stage & on screen

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