Available for remote roles & freelance

I make Kubernetes systems faster, compliant, and reliable.

Platform & reliability engineer. Previously built cluster infrastructure at Oracle. B.Tech + MS by Research from IIIT Hyderabad.

$ kubectl describe engineer pratishtha
RolePlatform / SREFocusKubernetes, CI/CD, observabilityPreviouslyOracle, 2024–2026StackGo · Python · Helm · PrometheusLocationIndia · remoteStatusReady
−21s
Cluster scale-up latency cut at Oracle, by reworking scheduling and synchronization.
0 downtime
FIPS 140-2 compliant DNS cutover into production Kubernetes networking. Adopted by 2 teams.
<5ms
Client acknowledgement in Ferrum, independent of downstream endpoint latency.
01 / SERVICES

Clear scope, fixed outcome.

For startups and small teams who need production infrastructure done properly, without hiring a full-time platform team yet.

Production-ready Kubernetes

Take your app from "it runs on a VM" to a cluster you can trust.

  • Helm charts, autoscaling, probes and limits
  • CI/CD from GitHub Actions to cluster
  • Dashboards and a written runbook

Reliability audit

Find out what will break before your users do.

  • Review of cluster, deploys and failure modes
  • Prioritized risks with concrete fixes
  • Walkthrough call with your team

Observability setup

Alerts that page you for real problems, not noise.

  • Prometheus metrics and Grafana dashboards
  • SLOs and alert rules that matter
  • Structured logging cleanup

Looking for a full-time or long-term contract engineer instead? I'm open to that too.

02 / EXPERIENCE

Where I've shipped.

2024 — 2026

Software Developer · Oracle

Owned controller logic for a distributed Kubernetes platform, with guaranteed mutual exclusion across concurrent replicas. Cut scale-up latency by 21 seconds. Shipped a FIPS 140-2 DNS service with zero-downtime cutover. On-call and postmortems with SRE teams.

2023 — 2024

Backend Developer · Contract, automotive SaaS

Designed, deployed and maintained a production app on DigitalOcean: JWT auth with RBAC, idempotent billing with tax logic, cron-driven automation, and race-free sequential IDs.

2023

DevOps & Analytics Intern · Oracle

Containerized microservices, ran them on Kubernetes, and wired metrics into Oracle Analytics Cloud.

2021

Outreachy Intern · TensorFlow

Built a custom schema component for TFX-Addons, with code review in a distributed open-source team.

03 / CASE STUDY

Ferrum: a webhook delivery platform, built in the open.

Ingestion is decoupled from delivery, so a slow customer endpoint never slows down the sender.

Sender
FastAPI gateway
Redis queue
Async worker
Endpoint
PostgreSQL · persistence
Prometheus · metrics
Kubernetes · HPA, probes, limits

Built

Gateway + async worker over Redis, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes with autoscaling, Prometheus metrics, and GitHub Actions → GHCR → cluster deploys.

Measured

135 req/s at 0% errors (k6, 50 VUs, 60s). Client ack under 5ms. Cache-aside lookups from 22ms to 1.2ms on hits.

Next

AWS with EKS + Terraform, deliberate failure injection with written postmortems, then Vault, ArgoCD and mTLS.

04 / CONTACT

Have infrastructure that needs to hold up? Let's talk.

Freelance projects, long-term contracts, or full-time remote roles. I usually reply within two working days.

Hiring or have a project? Introduce yourself

Tell me who you are and what you need. I usually reply within two working days.

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