Shiva Krishna Merla

Shiva Krishna Merla is a senior software engineer on the NVIDIA Cloud Native team where he works on GPU cloud infrastructure, orchestration, and monitoring. He is focused on enabling GPU-accelerated DL and AI workloads in container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes and OpenShift using the NVIDIA GPU Operator. When not working, Shiva enjoys hiking, playing volleyball, and spending time with his six-year-old son.
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Posts by Shiva Krishna Merla

AI Platforms / Deployment Sep 10, 2025

Deploy Scalable AI Inference with NVIDIA NIM Operator 3.0.0

AI models, inference engine backends, and distributed inference frameworks continue to evolve in architecture, complexity, and scale. With the rapid pace of... 7 MIN READ
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Data Center / Cloud Apr 29, 2025

NVIDIA NIM Operator 2.0 Boosts AI Deployment with NVIDIA NeMo Microservices Support

The first release of NVIDIA NIM Operator simplified the deployment and lifecycle management of inference pipelines for NVIDIA NIM microservices, reducing the... 5 MIN READ
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Data Center / Cloud Sep 30, 2024

Managing AI Inference Pipelines on Kubernetes with NVIDIA NIM Operator

Developers have shown a lot of excitement for NVIDIA NIM microservices, a set of easy-to-use cloud-native microservices that shortens the time-to-market and... 5 MIN READ