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%.
Things I've Built
Open Source
Sairo
v3.5 · Apache-2.0 · Open SourceObject storage, beautifully engineered.
Most object-storage UIs crawl to a halt past a few thousand objects. Sairo stays instant at 15.5 million — folder navigation is a constant-time index lookup that lands at the network floor.
A self-hosted, S3-compatible storage platform — far more than a browser. It breaks down storage cost across 13 providers with optimization recommendations, and exposes an AI-queryable analytics layer over MCP. Built full-stack (FastAPI · React · Go CLI · SQLite FTS5) and proven on a live 269 TB / 15.5M-object deployment.
Constant-time at any scale
Folder navigation is an index lookup — 0.002ms on 2M-object buckets (191,231× faster than the naive path) — plus SQLite FTS5 full-text search across millions of keys.
Adaptive delta crawler
Picks up new objects in ~30s vs a 7-minute full re-crawl, auto-parallelizing across sub-prefixes (16 workers / 12 buckets).
Cost intelligence
Per-folder cost across 13 providers with live AWS pricing; cold-data, duplicate & lifecycle-gap detection with tiering-savings recommendations.
AI storage intelligence
A 26-tool MCP server (+4 guided workflows) exposes the whole analytics layer to Claude Desktop, Cursor & any MCP client — hardened with 75 security tests.
Memory-bounded uploads
Direct browser→S3 multipart upload for files of any size (114 MB/s), with just-in-time part signing — server RAM stays ~100MB regardless of file size.
Per-user S3-key scoping
Every call uses the logged-in user’s own S3 credentials, so IAM scopes what they can see. Plus RBAC, 2FA, OAuth/LDAP, encrypted creds & an audit log.
Single container · zero external dependencies · Helm chart · Go CLI · 394 end-to-end tests · cosign-signed multi-arch images + SBOM
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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