Cloud & DevOps
Team Lead_
Infrastructure on Azure and GCP, Kubernetes workloads, and the CI/CD pipelines that ship to them. Automate it, monitor it, harden it. Based in Hyderabad, India.
~ About me
I work across the full width of cloud operations: designing infrastructure on Azure and GCP, running Kubernetes workloads, building the CI/CD pipelines that ship to them, and administering the identity, domain, and developer platforms around them. Wherever I am in that stack, the mindset is the same: automate it, monitor it, harden it.
Security is the thread through all of it. I believe in zero trust: no implicit trust for any user, device, or workload; verify explicitly, grant least privilege, and audit everything. I apply the same scrutiny to cost, because a well-run platform wastes neither access nor money.
This site is my public notebook. I write about the problems I run into, the tools I try, and what I would do differently next time. If any of it saves you a debugging session, it did its job.
# core strengths
- Quick study on unfamiliar systems: hand me a new codebase, cluster, or tool and I will quickly map how it works and where it breaks
- Root-cause debugging across layers, from application to infrastructure
- End-to-end ownership: design, build, ship, monitor, harden
- Every fix becomes knowledge: I write down what I learn so the team debugs it once
- role
- Cloud & DevOps Team Lead · Platform Administrator
- company
- tech.at.core
- location
- Hyderabad, India
▤ Skills
# the bar shows how deep I go with each tool: strong · comfortable · learning
# cloud platforms
# containers & orchestration
# kubernetes add-ons
# ci/cd & automation
# monitoring & observability
# security & quality
# platform administration
# certifications
↺ Career
Team Lead, Cloud & DevOps · Platform Administrator @ tech.at.core
Leading cloud infrastructure and delivery for client projects across Azure and GCP, and administering the organization’s identity, collaboration, and developer platforms.
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- Plan and design cloud infrastructure per project, matching architecture to client requirements and budget.
- Drive cost optimization and FinOps reporting across Azure and GCP: budgets, spend digests, and license right-sizing.
- Harden security in proportion to each project’s severity level and the client’s compliance needs.
- Set up monitoring dashboards and alerting with Prometheus and Grafana, so issues surface before users notice.
- Plan backup and disaster recovery strategies for production workloads.
- Design CI/CD build and deployment pipelines with quality gates on Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, integrating SonarQube code quality and Trivy vulnerability scanning.
- Administer the Microsoft 365 and Entra ID tenant: user lifecycle, licensing, and security posture reviews covering admin roles, conditional access, and app registrations.
- Manage the organization’s domains end to end, with full DNS control.
- Secure and maintain the GitHub organization: security hardening, 2FA enforcement, repository lifecycle, access reviews, and offboarding.
- Administer the organization’s Claude AI workspace and keep its configuration secure.
- Built an AI-native admin toolkit for cross-cloud cost and security operations, with guarded write flows, dry-run previews, and append-only audit logging.
Cloud & DevOps Engineer @ tech.at.core
Built and operated cloud infrastructure and the delivery tooling around it, across Azure and GCP, with hands-on AWS where projects needed it.
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- Built Jenkins pipelines and administered the instance end to end: permissions and role assignments, version upgrades, and OS patching of its VM.
- Managed Nexus as the central package manager proxying libraries, plus SonarQube integrations and role assignments.
- Diagnosed and recovered a corrupted Nexus database through my own research, safely unblocking OS patching that had been stalled across all servers for about two months.
- Deployed applications to Kubernetes, configured custom domains, and rotated TLS certificates to keep endpoints secure.
- Worked with Kubernetes add-ons such as the External Secrets Operator.
- Managed infrastructure as code with Terraform and GitOps delivery (GitHub Actions, Argo CD).
DevOps Intern @ tech.at.core
Started with cloud platforms and DevOps tooling, then moved to a full-time role.
✎︎ Writing
# things I built, broke, and figured out in production
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