Rohit Shyla Kumar

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Rohit Shyla Kumar

Systems engineer. Builder. Writer.

rohitshylakumar@protonmail.com · github.com/Rohit-Shyla-Kumar · hk.linkedin.com/in/rohit-shyla-kumar

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 & certs

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

  • 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)