Aatharva.unde

Boringinfrastructure,on purpose.

DevOps & backend engineer in Ahmedabad. Five years running Kubernetes, Terraform and the Node.js services on top — on AWS and Azure.

See the work →
99.99%uptime / prod 2025
40%cloud spend removed
4m05sci build, was 8m12s
5 yrseks · aks on-call
01 / the method

Infrastructure as code, not as tribal knowledge

Every cluster, pipeline and alert is reviewable, reproducible and documented — so the platform outlives whoever built it.

01module "eks_cluster" {
02 source = "./modules/eks"
03 name = "prod-use1"
04 version = "1.30"
05
06 node_groups = {
07 spot = { capacity = "SPOT", max = 24 }
08 ondemand = { capacity = "ON_DEMAND", max = 6 }
09 }
10
11 budget_alert_usd = 1800
12}

Reproducible clusters

EKS and AKS provisioned from reviewed modules — environments that can be destroyed and rebuilt on a Tuesday.

Pipelines with opinions

Jenkins and GitHub Actions doing build, scan, promote. Cached layers took a 8-minute build under 4.

Services built to be observed

Node.js microservices with real health and readiness semantics, Redis and RabbitMQ behind them.

02 / selected work

Things I've shipped

all projects ↗
Open Source ProductQ3 2026

TakeoutLens

Self-hosted Google Takeout viewer - browse a full export of mail, chat, calendar and Drive in your browser, with nothing leaving your machine.

Google Takeout viewerself-hostedopen source+9
Mail, chat, calendar and Drive from a full Takeout, searchable locally with nothing leaving your machine
Open Source ProductH1 2026

K8Lens

Zero-config Kubernetes cluster manager - real-time pod, service, ingress monitoring with health scoring algorithm and multi-arch support.

Kubernetes dashboardkubectl alternativecluster management+6
15+ resource types · intelligent health scoring · multi-arch Docker
SaaS ProductQ1 2026

Meeting Analyzer

Archive Google Meet transcripts, recordings & attendance data beyond retention limits. Free tool for organizing meeting history.

SaaSMeeting ManagementGoogle Meet archive+8
Permanent archive of meetings Google deletes after 30 days
03 / experience

Five roles, one obsession with uptime

Apr 2025 — Present

Assistant Engineering Manager

Confiance Bizsol Pvt Ltd

Leading cloud-native architecture standards across the SaaS suite: IaC-first deployment on EKS, structured reviews, mentorship, and an OCR pipeline that cut document processing from hours to minutes.

Ahmedabad · On-site
Jul 2023 — Apr 2025

Software Development Engineer L2

Confiance Bizsol Pvt Ltd

Led the EC2-to-EKS migration and architected the Node.js microservice suite (paywall, email, file management) at 100% uptime. Cut lower-priority cluster cost 30–40% with Spot and on-demand fallback.

Ahmedabad · On-site
Dec 2022 — Jul 2023

Software Development Engineer III

Confiance Bizsol Pvt Ltd

Resolved latency bottlenecks across two high-traffic services for a 20–30% response-time reduction, and built data-import pipelines against third-party accounting systems.

Remote
Dec 2021 — Dec 2022

Software Development Engineer II

CareerLabs Technologies

Established Docker-based container pipeline; built high-throughput URL shortener and in-house WhatsApp marketing platform.

  • Express + PostgreSQL + MongoDB URL shortener serving hundreds of thousands of redirects
  • WhatsApp Business API + AWS SQS marketing platform - saved ~₹70k/quarter vs. third-party
Bengaluru · On-site
Dec 2020 — Dec 2021

Product Associate

CareerLabs Technologies

Full-stack POCs for stakeholder demos · contributed to 3 product launches.

Bengaluru · On-site
04 / the rack

Tooling I reach for in production

AWS Solutions Architect – AssociateCNCF KCNAHashiCorp Terraform Associate (003)Azure Fundamentals AZ-900
Cloud
AWS EC2EKSS3SQSLambdaCloudFrontEventBridgeAzure AKSAzure CDN
Containers
DockerKubernetesHelmHPANginx IngressMulti-arch buildsSpot Instances
IaC & CI/CD
TerraformeksctlJenkinsGitHub ActionsAzure DevOpsDocker layer caching
Backend & data
Node.jsExpressRedisRabbitMQPostgreSQLMongoDBMySQL
Observability
CloudWatchCloudTrailPrometheusGrafanaSentryUptimeKuma
Networking & security
IAM (least-privilege)VPCSecurity GroupsAzure VNetNSGsSSL/TLSACM
05 / writing

Notes from the platform

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Sep 5, 2026Stop Using nodeSelector for Node PlacementStop hardcoding infrastructure layouts in your manifests. It creates brittle clusters that fail to scale when your instance types change.7 min · kubernetesAug 26, 2026Stop Using 0.0.0.0/0 in Your Security GroupsOpen-to-the-world rules are a lazy security shortcut that leads to inevitable data exfiltration. Here is how to lock down your VPC traffic effectively.8 min · awsAug 25, 2026Stop Allowing PostgreSQL Connections to BalloonUnbounded connection pools are a silent killer; here is how to use PgBouncer to prevent your database from buckling under a sudden spike in traffic.9 min · backendAug 10, 2026Stop Over-Provisioning Your K8s Requests and LimitsIf you aren't measuring actual container utilization, you’re burning 40% of your cloud budget on idle CPU and RAM. Here is how to stop the waste.8 min · kubernetes
06 / contact

Got infra that should be cheaper, faster, or more boring?

I always have time for an interesting infrastructure problem.

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