Hritwik Singhal — DevOps Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer with 3+ years of experience in building & maintaining resilient, scalable infrastructure in production environments. I am a dedicated, self-driven geek with a passion for self-hosting and a strong zeal for open-source development. I'd rather spend 4 hours writing a program to automate a task than spend 4 minutes doing it manually every day! And... that was the end of my formal introduction. So who am i? I am someone who likes to code, be it for my career or for solutions to problems that i create! (why spend 6 minutes doing something by hand when you can spend 6 hours to automate it xD). But seriously, this habit made me significantly better engineer over the past years. Couldn't find a program to download songs or upgrade the ones in my library? Just code it. (i like to own my content) Too lazy to walk 10 steps to turn lights/fan on? Control it via Raspberry pi + Relay. Frustrated about all the privacy invading crap in OEM android? Just build your own fork of Android and tinker with it. (Yep, i use forked AOSP to build my own rom and daily drive it, no more OEM BS). These are just a handful of instances through which I learned coding. Don't believe me? Just have a look at my GitHub profile. I am a huge free software and OSS supporter, so all my work is open source. (it ain't much, but it's honest work) You can always have a chat with me on Linux, Competitive coding and how computer systems work. I have also began self-hosting recently to get into a privacy-focused life and have been hosting many services on my homelab (TerraNixLab) which are direct replacements for many big-tech products. Some of them include llama.cpp (local LLM's), Nextcloud (Google/Microsoft workspace alt and CalDav/contacts server), Immich (Google photos alt), Forgejo (Github/Gitlab alt), SearX (search), Bookstack (for documentation of my TerraNixLab & Life). And the list is ever growing! Sunshine + Moonlight are my connection to video game world (and a 2000km journey between me and my Gaming Rig!). My achievements are often short-lived, however, as I'm a connoisseur of the 'You Died' experience. Apart from that, i love playing badminton, reading psychology books, trekking and a little bit of gaming. I have also been traveling solo for the past year and been loving it so far. Movies, Web-series aren't my cup of tea. (well expect for LOTR and mystery/thriller genre). Oh, I am also an Astronomy nerd. If you can tell me what a nebula is without Googling, you're instantly my new best friend! And... that's all folks!

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in cloud platforms and automation.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 3 yrs 8 mos