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AI Infrastructure Engineer at Microsoft Azure Compute. I build open-source infrastructure for AI agents, in public. This is my showroom.

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Experience, parked in order: the oldest on the left, the newest on the right. Each car is a chapter.

  • Red Hat1957 Bel Air
  • IBM1967 Impala
  • Arista Networks2019 Mustang Roush
  • XBattery1970 café motorcycle
  • Microsoft2026 Rolls-Royce Spectre

1957 Bel Air · Where it started.

Associate Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Jan 2022 – Dec 2022

  • +25%storage throughput
  • -30%production incidents
  • 100+code reviews
  • Improved distributed storage throughput 25% via automated profiling and bottleneck analysis.
  • Cut production incidents 30% with monitoring and alerting; cut QA cycle time 40% with Docker-based performance test automation; 100+ code reviews.

1967 Impala · Built to go the distance.

Software Engineer II, Cloud Storage & Automation

Jan 2023 – Feb 2025

  • -60%MTTR
  • 1000+deployments watched
  • 10xbenchmark productivity
  • Built Ceph performance monitoring (Prometheus, Python) detecting anomalies across 1000+ enterprise deployments.
  • Automated troubleshooting with Python/Bash log analysis, cutting incident response time 40%.
  • Built Rook-Ceph Kubernetes operators, cutting MTTR 60%; 15+ PRs merged to Ceph.
  • Built Docker/Ansible S3 benchmarking framework, a 10x productivity gain.

2019 Mustang Roush · Light, fast, precise.

Software Engineer, Network Infrastructure & Performance (C++)

Feb 2025 – Feb 2026

  • 100%packet loss eliminated
  • -40%MTTR
  • +35%deploy reliability
  • Built BESS agent anomaly detection, eliminating 100% packet loss during port updates.
  • Automated incident detection and RCA correlation, cutting MTTR 40%.
  • Built Grafana dashboards for 400G+ systems; CI/CD raised deployment reliability 35%.

1970 café motorcycle · The side road, ridden at the same time.

Senior Infrastructure Consultant, AI & Cloud Platform

Mar 2025 – Oct 2025

  • 99.9%uptime
  • 10,000+SMEs served
  • -75%false positives
  • Built AI Kubernetes observability platform for 10,000+ SMEs: 99.9% uptime, 60% less manual work.
  • Delivered Terraform/Ansible/GitLab CI pipelines enabling 50+ daily zero-downtime deploys.
  • Correlated alerts across 500+ VMs, cutting false positives 75%; automated RCA resolved incidents 50% faster.

2026 Rolls-Royce Spectre · The flagship.

Software Engineer II, Container Platform & Infrastructure (Azure Compute / Hyper-V)

Mar 2026 – Present

  • HCSAPI migration
  • LiveMigration at Azure scale
  • Drive HCSShim/HCS API migration to modern container abstractions, enabling Live Migration at Azure scale.
  • Built parity/regression validation frameworks across container runtime layers.
  • Built PowerShell/Go deployment tooling and CI/CD for rollout and validation.
  • Root-cause distributed failures across Azure clusters using Kusto telemetry.

Every tool I reach for, kept on the wall. The warm ones are the ones I use most: Kubernetes, vLLM, Go, Rust, Terraform.

Languages
Python, Go, Rust, C/C++, Swift, Bash, PowerShell, TypeScript, SQL
AI Infrastructure
LLM inference, vLLM, KServe, llm-d, Inference autoscaling (HPA), Model serving, Multi-tenant isolation, MCP, RAG, LangGraph, LangChain, Azure OpenAI, Agentic workflows
Cloud & Platform
Kubernetes, Operators & CRDs, Azure, AWS, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, containerd, Hyper-V, gVisor, Cilium, Ceph, Linux
Observability & Delivery
Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Kusto, ELK, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Incident response, RCA, High availability, Cost optimization
Customer-facing
Solution design, Enterprise integration, Technical advisory, REST/gRPC APIs, n8n workflows, Human-in-the-loop AI, Demos, Conference talks

The get-to-know-me room. A good suit, a few watches, and what I do when the laptop is shut.

  • Badminton

    Badminton

    Fast hands, faster feet.

  • Cricket

    Cricket

    Weekend overs, never enough of them.

  • Guitar

    Guitar

    The one thing I play slowly on purpose.

Kept for the craft. Every one of them is set to Bengaluru time. Pick one up to turn it over.

  • SREcon26 EMEA

    Speaker · Dublin, Oct 2026

    Why the Kubernetes autoscaler fails LLM inference

  • Ceph Days

    Speaker

    Distributed storage, from the people who maintain it

  • Agentic Summit

    Speaker · Bangalore

    AI agents on real infrastructure

  • 15+ merged PRs

    Ceph upstream

    RADOS Gateway and storage engine work

  • Mercatus grant

    Agentic Operator

    Kubernetes governance for AI agents

  • 52 stars

    agentic-operator-core

    Open source, built in public

A parting thought

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
Warren Buffett