Atharva
Uday Unde
DevOps & Backend Engineer. I build and operate cloud-native infrastructure on AWS and Azure — and the Node.js services that run on top of it.
Five roles, four and a half years, one consistent obsession with uptime.
Assistant Engineering Manager
Leading cloud-native architecture standards across the SaaS suite. IaC-first deployment on EKS, structured reviews, mentorship.
- ▸Established eksctl-based IaC standards, cutting environment provisioning time
- ▸Built an OCR pipeline (Google Gemini) reducing bank statement processing from 2-3h to <10min — ~92% reduction
- ▸Onboarded 80–82% of 50 clients via a QuickBooks Desktop + Online import pipeline
Software Development Engineer L2
Led EC2-to-EKS migration; architected the Node.js microservice suite (paywall, email, file management) on EKS at 100% uptime.
- ▸Provisioned isolated per-env EKS clusters with namespace RBAC and Budget alerts
- ▸Cut lower-priority cluster costs 30–40% via Spot Instances with on-demand fallback
- ▸Resolved latency bottlenecks across two high-traffic services — 20–30% response time reduction
Software Development Engineer III
Cost-optimised AWS via Terraform · led full AWS → Azure AKS migration with zero downtime · Graviton transition.
- ▸40% cloud spend reduction via right-sizing, reserved capacity, Spot usage
- ▸Migrated linux/amd64 → arm64 (Graviton) across production and development
- ▸Built CPaaS/SaaS integrations (VerLoop, WhatsApp Business API) on K8s
Software Development Engineer II
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
Product Associate
Full-stack POCs for stakeholder demos · contributed to 3 product launches.
The rack.
Paper that backs up the production work.
A few things I've shipped.
CashBooks Accounting Software
Cashbooks backend architecture & OCR pipeline — 92% reduction in statement processing time using Google Gemini AI and QuickBooks integration.
Meeting Analyzer
Archive Google Meet transcripts, recordings & attendance data beyond retention limits. Free tool for organizing meeting history.
Kubernetes Web Manager
Zero-config Kubernetes cluster manager — real-time pod, service, ingress monitoring with health scoring algorithm and multi-arch support.
Notes from the platform.
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"The best infrastructure is the kind you don't have to think about. The second best is the kind you wrote down."
Boring infrastructure
Novelty is the enemy of uptime. I reach for the well-understood thing — Postgres, EKS, Terraform — before the new thing, every time.
Cost is a feature
A 40% bill reduction is the same as a 40% revenue increase, and easier to ship. I treat cost like latency: measure it, set budgets, alert on regressions.
Write things down
Runbooks, ADRs, postmortems. Future-me forgets. Future-team is hired after the fact. The notes are the system.
Small radius of blast
Per-env clusters, namespace RBAC, least-privilege IAM. When something breaks — and it will — it should break in one place, loudly.
Got infra that should be cheaper, faster, or more boring?
I'm not actively looking, but I always have time for an interesting infra problem.