ROHIT SHYLA KUMAR
Systems engineer. Builder. Writer.
rohitshylakumar@protonmail.com
https://github.com/Rohit-Shyla-Kumar
https://hk.linkedin.com/in/rohit-shyla-kumar
https://rohit-shyla-kumar.github.io/

SUMMARY
I configure and maintain the linux systems a global bank depends on - so they stay up, stay secure, and mostly run themselves. I also write about AI, engineering, investing, history and philosophy.

EXPERIENCE

Red Hat SME · HSBC UK · Jul 2026 – Present
- Integrated internal Active Directory into the Red Hat platform so users get SSO rather than another password.
- Drove release frequency up ~30% and tightened security monitoring with modern coding assistants in the inner loop.

Site Reliability Engineer · HSBC Hong Kong · Jan 2024 – Jul 2026
- Project lead for automations across Linux, Windows, VMware and OpenShift in HSBC Internal Cloud: bare-metal build, landing accounts, SSH key rotation with HashiCorp Vault, CVE drift remediation, SSL issuance and renewal.
- Created the Ansible Linux Profile that enforces OS, filesystem, cybersecurity and tooling standards
- Shipped secret-zero plugins so application teams manage Vault secrets without a human in the loop.
- Offered highly available, customisable IaaS to retail banking, commercial banking, and securities trading.
- CI/CD for JavaScript and Python onto Kubernetes with Helm; centralised logs into Kafka for pre-incident alerting on storage, latency, and tier-0 bottlenecks.

Linux Platform / DevOps Engineer · HSBC Hong Kong · Aug 2021 – Jan 2024
- Ansible pipelines and low-latency Python FastAPI services to produce RHEL layer-1 images used globally on public and private cloud
- Authored, tested and published maintenance packs consumed across the bank.
- System hardening, filesystem standards, networking; tuned TCP/IP and multicast for low-latency HFT paths.
- Level 2 incident response on critical applications and infrastructure.
- Cut Linux image prepare-and-release from 10 days to 2, with better consistency and team utilisation.

Technology Graduate · HSBC Hong Kong · Jul 2019 – Aug 2021
- End-to-end OS and middleware patch management automation.
- System-level REST APIs for telemetry: patch compliance, build version, load balancing, core metrics — Mule, Ansible, Puppet, Java, Go.
- Automated VMware Tools and Visual C++ .NET upgrades on Windows.
- Agile lead and Scrum MC across regions; Grafana observability for senior leadership.
- Project lead for One Data Dashboard — multi-region operational datasets, correlated, actually used.

IT Intern · Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong · Jun 2018 – Sep 2018
- AI systems to flag copyright violations with PyTorch and Keras.
- Oracle databases and PL/SQL for large-catalogue analysis.

ML / Design Engineer Intern · Horus Intellisys · May 2017 – Sep 2017
- Classifier tuning for India's first Advanced Driver Assistance System; precision up 15%+.
- Optimised C++ computer-vision paths with gdb, g++ and Make on Debian — latency from 1s to 4ms.

SKILLS
Linux, Ansible, Jenkins, Python, C/C++, JAVA, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Terraform, Docker, Helm, Vault, Kafka, Postgres, Redis, Splunk, Grafana, AWS, GCP, Azure

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong (Aug 2016 – Jun 2019)
CGPA 3.71 · Dean's List of Honor · Competitive Programming · English Debate

CERTIFICATIONS
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) — Automation with Ansible (May 2023)
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) — Linux system administration (Mar 2023)

AWARDS
- Certified Enterprise Engineer — Role Model, technical & leadership programme (2023)
- Hong Kong SAR Government Scholarship (2018–19)
- Hong Kong SAR Talent Development Scholarship (2017)
- Smarter Life Aided by Robots — 1st place, medicine dispenser (2017)

PROJECTS
- Wishlist Invest (2026)
- General AI for FPS (2018 – 2019)
- Pineal — Aid for Visually Impaired Bowlers (2017 – 2018)
- One Data Dashboard (2019 – 2021)
- Data Science for India (2017 – 2018)
- Minimal Medicine Dispenser (2017)