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Kubernetes·Terraform·Cloud·Linux·Go

Bengaluru, India · open to onsite / remote

Eknatha Reddy Puli

Senior Staff Engineer  ·  Platform Engineering & SRE

Fourteen years keeping enterprise infrastructure alive in production — Linux, virtualization, Kubernetes and OpenStack, most of it on call. I build the paved road: automation that removes the repetitive work, and observability that surfaces failure before a customer does.

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Eknatha Reddy PuliBengaluru · IST

About

I design, operate and troubleshoot mission-critical platforms — the infrastructure other teams depend on and rarely think about until it breaks.

Fourteen years across enterprise infrastructure, virtualization, Linux and production support, from carrier networks at Ericsson to ad-tech at scale to hybrid cloud at IBM. The through-line is reliability: making systems legible, making failure recoverable, and making the fix repeatable so nobody has to remember it at 3am.

Day to day that means Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenStack and cloud platforms across AWS, Azure and GCP — automating repetitive operations, simplifying how infrastructure gets managed, and giving engineering teams a path to production that doesn't route through a ticket queue. I write Go for platform operators and CLI tooling, and Python and Bash for everything that shouldn't need a human.

Outside of work I make practical visual guides on Kubernetes, Linux, Docker, Git, Terraform and cloud infrastructure, for engineers trying to get a grip on concepts that are usually explained badly.

At a glance

Operating numbers

years.infrastructure.engineering
14+
primary.clouds
AWS · GCP · Azure · hybrid
platform.sla
99.9%+ · multi-AZ OpenStack at IBM
orchestration
Kubernetes · OpenStack
base
Bengaluru, India · onsite / remote
education
B.E. Electronics & Communication · VTU, 2008

Service history

Seven teams since 2010

Newest first, all expanded. Collapse any role you want out of the way.

Toolchain

What I run

Listed honestly: tools I've run in production, not ones I've only read about.

Orchestration

  • Kubernetes
  • EKS
  • AKS
  • OpenShift
  • Operators
  • Helm
  • Docker
  • CNI · CSI

Infrastructure as code

  • Terraform
  • OpenTofu
  • Ansible

Cloud

  • OpenStack
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Hybrid & private cloud
  • Bare metal

Databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • MariaDB
  • Redis

Systems

  • Linux internals
  • Kernel tuning
  • TCP/IP · DNS
  • Load balancers
  • Storage
  • Capacity & performance

Reliability

  • SLI / SLO / error budgets
  • Incident command
  • High availability
  • Disaster recovery
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Splunk

Automation

  • Python
  • Go
  • Bash
  • Git
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • ArgoCD

Security & Hardening

  • IAM & RBAC
  • Secrets Management
  • Network Segmentation
  • OS Hardening
  • Compliance scanning

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What are you building?

LinkedIn is the fastest way to reach me. I reply to anything specific — a platform you're standing up, a reliability problem you're stuck on, or a role you think fits.