Jun 2025 – Nov 2025 · 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Building AI/ML platform on top of k8s
• Revamp Observability and Alerting for the entire org
• Automating bare-metal server provisioning and maintenance (Open Nebula)

Feb 2025 – Jun 2025 · 4 mos · Mountains

• Went off to the mountains to complete my Basic Mountaineering Course.
• Went off to Nepal to hike the Manaslu Circuit

Jan 2023 – Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

• Rewrote the backend infrastructure of our product to support rack-aware deployments. This reduced our stateful cluster scaling operations from 10-12 hours to a highly automatic 2 hour operation.
• Running a TSDB for customers with three-9s of availability in multiple regions across multiple deployments.
• Owning the observability pipeline end-to-end
• TSDB runs at scale (peak ingestion > 1.5 Billion time-series / min) in our largest deployment
• Inter-Region Data-Center migration (>30TB data) without any disruption in reads / writes
• Load-Testing / Stress-Testing / Performance analysis of new software. Capacity planning based on the same.
• Reduced toil on internal storage operations by writing an automation platform. Time for new deployments is less
• than 5 mins as opposed to 45 mins.
• Regular on-call rotations and capacity-planning discussions
• Wrote tools in Python and Golang to support internal workloads and teams.
• Managed a cluster with > 900 individual nodes
• Building incident-response runbooks for the entire team
• Mentoring and supporting Juniors during on-call incidents.

Jan 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Software Engineer at Druva-Labs.
• Worked on the Kubernetes Protection Project. We built a Prototype Operator that was able to perform backup and restore operations on K8s StatefulSets (on top of AWS)
• Worked on Vmware VMDK disk format for another project.
• Performed API testing using Cypress.
• Performed M & A analysis of other tools/companies from a technical perspective.

Jul 2020 – Jan 2021 · 6 mos

Aug 2019 – Jul 2020 · 11 mos

• Owner of the entire container platform; including the CI/CD layer, multiple staging and production cluster across multiple business units.
• Maintained system stability during multiple AWS outages
• Migrated Redis live in prod without service disruption.
• Built and Maintained infra to run SolrCloud on top of ECS
• Built and Maintained infra to run ZooKeeper on top of ECS
• Helped Maintain multiple Kafka Clusters
• Maintained an internal CI/CD and deployment tooling built on top of Gitlab
• Day-to-Day operations and tasks / optimizations.

Aug 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• I started as a sysadmin / DevOps Engineer where I managed day-to-day operations using Terraform, Ansible, Packer and Jenkins.
• With a view to better understand the functioning for the database (Riak) we were running, I grokked the manual and performed benchmarks. This resulted in significant improvement in the uptime of our Riak-Cluster. I also set up monitoring for the JVM and Riak.
• Wrote a couple of tools that would make bulk import/export from Riak fast in Python. After this, the time taken to export the entire DB was reduced to 2 hours as opposed to 1 day. This enabled us to perform faster database backups and migrations.
• Volunteered to write a data-cleaning tool for the data-team. This reduced their toil by automating away repetitive tasks. This reduced the toil for the data-team by reducing the time taken to clean data (before ingestion) from 6 hours to 1 hour.

Apr 2017 – Sep 2017 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• I was responsible to training the Content Development team at Azim Premji Foundation on Linux and other FOSS tools that can be used in a classroom context for teaching high school children.