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Shrinivas Katti
Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer
DevOps journey · Cloud Infrastructure Specialist — GCP
I build the platforms other engineers ship on — and the guardrails that keep them up.
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Everything I work with, and where it got used
11 domains, 62 tools. Click any cluster — each one opens the case study, architecture or incident it actually came from. Drag to orbit, scroll to zoom.
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- [OK ]
- [OK ]role :: devops / platform / ai infra→
- [OK ]clouds :: gcp · aws · oci · 62 tools mapped→
- [OK ]mounting /dev/opinions ... read-only, mostly
- [OK ]cost baseline :: -40%, availability intact→
- [OK ]toil :: -60% · sla :: 99.9% sustained→
- [WRN]yaml :: 47k lines indented. no further questions.
- [WRN]16 incidents on file. i remember all of them.→
- [404]work_life_balance :: not found — retrying→
- [OK ]it was dns. it is always dns.→
- [WRN]pods Ready 1/1 · lb says 0 healthy · fun→
- [OK ]restartCount: 0 — and yet, 602 crashes→
- [TIP]ask me why your canary reset to step 0→
- [OK ]coffee :: wagered. beat me at badminton.→
- [OK ]speaks :: kannada · english · hindi · marathi→
- [RUN]awaiting input ...
- CLOUD COST-40%Off a production bill, without quietly trading away availability.
- MANUAL TOIL-60%Tickets became a self-service portal with golden paths.
- SLA UPTIME99.9%Sustained on 24/7 on-call. Here is the alerting that made it boring.
- FIELD NOTESdiagnosedReal diagnoses, including the red herrings that cost me hours.
- ARCHITECTUREin 3DProduction architectures you can orbit, zoom and take apart.
- CI/CD + SECshift-leftScans, coverage and provenance as merge gates, not a later email.
- RESILIENCYHA failoverCheap capacity is only safe if losing it is a non-event.
- IaCGitOpsTerraform and Argo CD — peer-reviewed, audit-ready, no console edits.
- SERVICE MESHIstiomTLS, policy and traffic shifting. The upstream docs
- DELIVERYArgo CDDeclarative GitOps, and the progressive delivery docs
- POSTMORTEMSstudiedOther people's outages, studied properly. Not mine — theirs.
- COFFEE AT STAKEon meChess, badminton or basketball. Beat me and I am buying.
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