Senior DevOps Engineer
Senior DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience elevating platform efficiency. I drive TCO reduction and developer velocity by building boring, predictable systems—whether on bare-metal, hybrid, or pure cloud (AWS, EKS, Serverless).
In plain English: I keep systems fast, cheap, and always online.
Bangalore, India · Full-time · Remote-friendly
Platform Impact
Force Multiplier
My work doesn't just improve one server; it lifts the baseline for the entire engineering organization.
Teams Supported
Microservices
Incidents Reduced
Dev Time Saved
How I Work
Leadership without Authority
Driving consensus and technical excellence across distributed teams.
Design Reviews
I lead infra design reviews to catch scalability issues before a single line of code is written.
Mentorship
I mentor engineers on reliability patterns, cost optimization, and incident management.
Escalation Point
I act as the final escalation point for complex production incidents that stump the on-call team.
Boring Systems
I bias heavily toward boring, proven technology over the latest hype to ensure long-term maintainability.
Case Studies
Experience Log
Ad-Tech Scale Up — 3 months • Team of 2
The Bare-Metal Orchestration
Key Impact
The Challenge
Managing high-throughput ad-tech traffic on rigid bare-metal infrastructure lacked the elasticity of the cloud, risking latency spikes during traffic surges.
The Goal
Architect a Kubernetes layer on top of bare metal to bring cloud-native flexibility to physical hardware without the virtualization overhead.
The Solution
Drove a 60% TCO reduction vs. public cloud by deciding to pivot to a bare-metal K3s architecture (trading operational convenience for massive financial gain).
Led resolution of critical production incidents (DNS, HAProxy) and optimized ingress for zero-downtime reloads under high burst traffic.
Built a complete observability ecosystem with 100+ Grafana dashboards covering infrastructure health and business KPIs.
Trade-offs
Chose K3s over full Upstream K8s for lighter footprint on bare metal, accepting reduced ecosystem compatibility.
Accepted higher maintenance complexity of bare-metal to ensure massive long-term financial stability.
Prioritized predictable performance over maximum theoretical density by using dedicated CPU pinning.
The Outcome
Achieved cloud-like orchestration on owned hardware, maintaining low-latency ad delivery while owning the full stack and reducing potential cloud costs by 60%.
Dependencies
Tech Stack
The tools and technologies I work with daily.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Orchestration
CI/CD
Monitoring
Security & Networking
Data & Processing
Automation & Scripting
Tools
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