Shikha is a Distinguished Engineer & Master Inventor at IBM. She is the lead architect at Automation and Integration SaaS, where she brings her expertise in architecture, design, leadership towards collaboratively creating innovative pragmatic solutions leading to multi-cloud based SaaS. Shikha has numerous awarded patents and has been honored with six IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement awards. Her passions include solving customer problems to enable them to provide better experiences for their users. Shikha is a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools. She has presented at several open source conferences including DockerCon, KubeCon, Elasticon, WITs, GHC, local open source (Kubernetes) Meetups among others. She has been a panelist at Womenís breakfast at Elasticon.