Shrinivas Katti

I work on the unglamorous layer: the provisioning, the pipelines, the access paths, the clusters everyone else ships onto. Six years in — currently as a senior DevOps specialist at a consultancy, which means I've rebuilt this layer for consumer-scale companies with very different constraints and learned which parts actually generalise.

The pattern I keep returning to is the same. Take something that only works because one person remembers how, and turn it into something that works because it's written down, peer-reviewed and automated. Self-service instead of tickets. Short-lived certificates instead of a shared bastion key. An alert you trust instead of forty you ignore.

Lately that means AI infrastructure — RAG systems over operational knowledge, LLM observability, the delivery scaffolding that decides whether a model reaches production or just demos well.