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Hey, I'mMonit Thakkar.

Software Dev 2 at Splunk, a Cisco company

Building large-scale observability systems for high-volume agent, metric, and Kubernetes telemetry.

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By the numbers

Real impact, shipped to production

A few highlights from things I've built and shipped at Splunk, a Cisco company.

Files touched in a Controller-side K8s IPE integration spanning 3K+ lines

240K

Agents in production-scale Controller backend paths certified under load

37M

Registered metrics supported in high-volume telemetry workloads

3.4M+

K8s metadata rows optimized from ~2s batch overhead to sub-ms latency

80%

Reduction in manual security remediation effort via Patchinator-AI

$30M

ARR-linked enterprise escalations driven across engineering and support

Where I've worked

Experience

Backend/platform work across Controller integrations, Kubernetes telemetry, async workflows, and security automation.

CurrentJul 2023 - Present
Software Dev 2
Splunk, a Cisco companyBangalore, India
- Delivered Controller-side K8s IPE integration spanning 86 files and 3K+ lines across API DTOs, entity metadata persistence, tenant-linking services, SIM REST APIs, APM entity fetch strategies, and UI service contracts.
- Enabled AppDynamics to correlate APM applications with Kubernetes pods, containers, workloads, and namespaces for richer observability context.
- Worked on production-scale Controller backend paths certified under loads of 240K agents, 310K nodes, 37M registered metrics, 36M active metric ingestion, 200K snapshots/min, 50K pods/containers, and 3.3M health-rule affected entities.
- Contributed to backend architecture for agent traffic flows involving Controller, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, and Async Service, supporting async registration/configuration processing, cache-backed response reuse, and graceful fallback to direct Controller paths.
- Optimized K8s pod cleanup over 3.4M+ metadata rows, reducing batch overhead from ~2s to sub-ms latency.
- Built Patchinator-AI, an MCP-based security remediation pipeline scanning 500+ components across Maven, PyPI, NPM, and NuGet, reducing manual remediation effort by 80%.
- Led Java 8 to Java 17 modernization across Gradle, TeamCity, Docker/base images, plugin compatibility, and 50+ dependency upgrades.
- Migrated high-throughput metadata caches from Guava/FastLocal to Caffeine, reducing thread saturation risk and improving cache efficiency by 30%.
- Drove enterprise escalations across engineering, support, and customer-facing teams, protecting a $1.7M account and fixes tied to ~$30M ARR.
JavaKubernetesKafkaRedisMCPCaffeineTeamCity
Jan 2023 - Jun 2023
System Software Intern
NVIDIABangalore, India
- Reduced local processing time by 1.5 seconds and runtime delays by 500-700ms through LD_LIBRARY_PATH optimization, improving shared library resolution for embedded systems.
- Improved Stereo Vision Sensor boot performance by 2 seconds by diagnosing and resolving system-level initialization delays, enhancing overall sensor stability and startup reliability.
CC++Embedded SystemsLinux
May 2022 - Jul 2022
Software Engineering Intern
AJIO (Reliance Retail)Bangalore, India
- Built a microservice to externalize environment-specific configurations using Spring Cloud Config Server, decoupling config management from deployment cycles.
- Integrated Spring Cloud Bus with Kafka for real-time config propagation across services; secured configuration storage using HashiCorp Vault engines with GitLab-backed version control.
Spring BootKafkaVaultMicroservices
May 2020 - Jul 2021
Software Developer
FreelanceAhmedabad, India
- Developed and deployed RESTful APIs using Java Spring Boot for a CRM application, enabling key customer-facing features and collaborating with stakeholders to resolve workflow bottlenecks and improve end-user experience.
Spring BootREST APIsCRM

What I've built

Featured projects

Production-scale observability systems, security automation, and platform modernization.

Controller K8s IPE Integration

APM-to-Kubernetes correlation

Delivered Controller-side K8s IPE integration spanning 86 files and 3K+ lines across API DTOs, metadata persistence, tenant-linking services, SIM REST APIs, APM entity fetch strategies, and UI service contracts.

86 files
3K+ lines
Pods, containers, workloads, namespaces

JavaKubernetesREST APIsController

Controller Scale & Async Flows

High-volume telemetry backend paths

Contributed to backend architecture for highly integrated agent traffic flows involving Controller, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, and Async Service with async processing, cache-backed response reuse, and failure fallback paths.

240K agents
37M metrics
200K snapshots/min

JavaKafkaRedisKubernetes

Patchinator-AI

MCP-based security remediation

Built an MCP-based remediation pipeline that scans 500+ components across Maven, PyPI, NPM and NuGet, helping reduce manual security remediation effort by 80%.

500+ components
4 ecosystems
80% effort reduction

MCPAI AgentsJavaPython

Java 17 & Cache Modernization

Runtime, build, and cache upgrades

Led Java 8 to Java 17 modernization across Gradle, TeamCity, Docker/base images, plugin compatibility, and 50+ dependency upgrades, plus migrated high-throughput metadata caches to Caffeine.

50+ dependencies
30% cache efficiency gain
Lower thread saturation risk

Java 17GradleTeamCityCaffeine

My toolbox

Skills & technologies

Tools and concepts I reach for daily, plus a few I'm currently exploring.

Languages

JavaGoPythonC++C

Backend

Spring BootMicronautREST APIsHibernate/JPAKafkaRedis

Infrastructure & Tools

KubernetesHelmDockerAWSAzureTeamCityJenkinsGradleMavenVaultJFrogGit

Databases

MySQLMongoDBHBaseTimeSeries DB

Concepts

MicroservicesDistributed SystemsHigh-Volume IngestionCachingCI/CDDB MigrationsSecurity AutomationAI AgentsMCP

Where I studied

Education

CGPA 8.4 / 10

International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore

Master of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering

Aug 2021 - May 2023Bangalore, India

CGPA 8.2 / 10

L.J. Institute of Engineering and Technology

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering

Aug 2016 - May 2020Ahmedabad, India

Let's talk

Get in touch

Have a role, project idea, or just want to chat about distributed systems? Drop a message - I read every one.

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