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Site Reliability Engineer, Red Hat

I build systems that stay reliable when everything else gets complicated.

Site Reliability Engineer, open-source contributor, and perpetual learner. I work at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, observability, and software engineering.

currently thinking about: distributed systems, observability, open source & the next thing worth learning.

About

I started out the way most engineers do — curious, and mildly obsessed with knowing why things work. That curiosity didn't stay academic for long. It turned into building and operating cloud infrastructure that other engineers depend on without ever thinking about it, which is exactly the point.

Most of my working life happens somewhere between Kubernetes operators, distributed backends, and the dashboards that tell you the truth about both. I've spent years around systems that manage thousands of clusters — the kind of scale where a small inefficiency stops being small, and a quiet bug becomes everyone's Tuesday.

I like building things. I like understanding why they break even more.

That's not a tagline — it's roughly how I spend my time. Reliability engineering, at its core, is applied curiosity: you're always asking what happens next, what happens at 3am, what happens when the thing you didn't think about happens. I find that question genuinely interesting, which probably explains the rest of this website.

GoPythonC/C++JavaBashKubernetesOpenShiftTerraformAWSAzureGCPLinuxCI/CDPostgreSQLKafkaPrometheusGrafanaJaegerOpenTelemetryDynatrace

Things I've built, broken, fixed, and learned from.

A few selected pieces of work, not a full list of responsibilities.

Reliability Engineering

An SLI/SLO framework for a production package operator

The problem
A production operator had no formal definition of "healthy." Incidents were noticed by customers before they were noticed by us.
What I built
Designed and shipped an SLI/SLO framework — defining the right signals, setting realistic objectives, and wiring alerting to actually match user impact instead of raw system noise.
PrometheusGrafanaGoKubernetes

~40%

faster incident detection

99.9%

availability maintained

Kubernetes & OpenShift

Lifecycle management across the OpenShift Addon Operator ecosystem

The problem
Managing service lifecycles consistently across a large, fast-growing OpenShift fleet is a coordination problem disguised as an engineering one.
What I built
Worked across the Addon Operator ecosystem to manage lifecycle behavior for services running across a large multi-cluster footprint, backed by a serious automated test investment.
GoKubernetes OperatorsOpenShiftCI/CD

10,000+

clusters under lifecycle management

100+

automated tests written

Security & Automation

Vulnerability lifecycle automation across 15+ Go operators

The problem
CVE response across many independent operators was manual, slow, and inconsistent — exactly where automation earns its keep.
What I built
Built automated tooling to detect, triage, and drive vulnerability remediation across a fleet of Go-based Kubernetes operators, replacing tribal knowledge with a repeatable process.
GoKubernetesCI/CDSecurity tooling

~93%

reduction in MTTR for critical CVEs

200+

critical vulnerabilities resolved

Distributed Backend Systems

Go/PostgreSQL microservices at global cluster scale

The problem
Backend services managing a growing global fleet needed to stay fast and correct as both traffic and cluster count climbed.
What I built
Built and optimized Go/PostgreSQL microservices involved in managing global cluster infrastructure, with a close eye on query patterns, API latency, and request-path efficiency.
GoPostgreSQLREST APIsAWS

15,000+

global clusters managed

~30%

API performance improvement

3M+

daily requests handled

Observability

Observability that tells the truth without shouting

The problem
Alert fatigue is its own reliability problem — teams stop trusting signals that cry wolf.
What I built
Built observability and SLI/SLO systems using Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, and OpenTelemetry, tuned to reduce noise while catching real degradation earlier.
PrometheusGrafanaJaegerOpenTelemetry

Lower

alert noise

Earlier

detection of real issues

Building in public.

Open source is where I learned to write code that other people actually have to read. It's also just a good way to spend a weekend.

  1. 2025

    OpenEverestrecognition

    Contributed dynamic load balancer annotation support, released in v1.13 and recognized in the project's official blog.

  2. 2024

    Jaeger & OpenTelemetrymentorship

    LFX Mentee — worked directly with maintainers on distributed tracing tooling used across the cloud-native ecosystem.

  3. Ongoing

    OpenShift Addon Operatorcontribution

    Contributions to lifecycle management tooling and test coverage for the Addon Operator ecosystem.

  4. Ongoing

    CNCF projectscontribution

    Smaller patches and issue triage across other cloud-native projects as time (and curiosity) allows.

OpenShift Addon OperatorOpenTelemetryJaegerOpenEverest

I don't just use technology. I like understanding it.

Distributed systemsDatabases at scaleCloud-native infrastructureObservabilityReliability engineeringAI / deep learningNetworkingSystems engineering

Fuzzy-logic-based routing protocols

IIT Kharagpur

Research work exploring fuzzy-logic approaches to routing decisions in dynamic network conditions.

Deep learning classification

Jadavpur University

Internship work applying deep learning models to classification problems.

When I'm not debugging production.

Photography

@ Sugar Shutter

I started photographing things I found interesting and never really stopped. Three frames made it into the Cog India Photo Fest 2025, selected from roughly 100,000 submissions — my first exhibition memento, and a nice reminder that noticing things is a skill worth keeping.

Street light study, long exposure

Street light study, long exposure

Mountain ridge at first light

Mountain ridge at first light

Architectural geometry, harsh shadow

Architectural geometry, harsh shadow

Portrait, natural window light

Portrait, natural window light

Reflection study, wet pavement

Reflection study, wet pavement

Night market, motion and stillness

Night market, motion and stillness

Music

A small YouTube project where I record piano covers and the occasional original — proof that the same brain that debugs Go services also just wants to play something that sounds nice.

Nerdy Keys ↗

Travel

A running, incomplete list of places worth remembering.

  • Ladakh — High-altitude roads and very patient yaks.
  • Kerala backwaters — The quietest internet connection I have ever had.
  • Northeast India — Still working through the list here.

Curiosity

Things I've picked up, poked at, or fallen down a rabbit hole over:

  • ·Mechanical keyboards (obviously)
  • ·Film photography basics
  • ·Home network tinkering
  • ·Chess openings I will never play correctly under pressure
  • ·Vintage rifles and marksmanship fundamentals
  • ·Whatever conference talk queue I have not finished yet

Sharing what I learn.

Building things is only half of it — the other half is helping other people understand how, and getting to learn from what they build too.

Hackathon judging

Evaluated technical projects at student and community hackathons.

Speaking

Talks and panel participation at technology and community events.

Mentoring

Helping students navigate early careers in infrastructure and open source.

CNCF & ACM involvement

Active participation in cloud-native and ACM community events.

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – AssociateAmazon Web Services
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (004)HashiCorp
  • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)CNCF
  • Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA)CNCF
  • Nvidia Certified Associate - AI Infrastructure and OperationsNvidia

Student to systems.

Fewer job titles, more of what actually changed along the way.

Now

Community Contributor

Speaking, mentoring, judging — sharing what I learn along the way.

Have an interesting system, idea, photograph, or rabbit hole to explore?

Built with curiosity. Deployed with care.