Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava

Research engineer. I like a system I can watch while it works.

Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava

This is the work I keep coming back to.

Before the job titles, there was a bench at IIT Roorkee. I built a grid of LEDs from a bare board, then a pair of robot legs, then a glove, and then I spent a year with a radio signal that was mostly noise. I wanted to see what the thing in front of me was doing. I still want exactly that.

So I stay near the running system. OpenTelemetry on the days a group of people can agree what to call things. eBPF on the days the application has to be left alone. A collector carries what they emit, and a store on the far side has to answer someone who is actually worried, sometimes at terabytes a day. When the subject has been a model, I have followed it onto GPUs, asking the same thing. What is it doing, while it does it?

When I can, I sit with people who are meeting this for the first time. Google Summer of Code, Cloud Native University, and the KubeCon rooms where someone would like it shown, plainly. The experiments that need more time than a product allows are in the labs.

Latest

Talk

Threat signals from OpenTelemetry CPU profiles and OBI network flows

Observability Day, Salt Lake City, 9 November 2026. Solo.
Blog

Introducing continuous profiling in Odigos

6 May 2026. Profiling had lived as a diagram for long enough. This is the week it became something you switch on.

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