I’ve spent six years making infrastructure boring.

I’m a senior platform & DevOps engineer in Bengaluru, India, working on a small platform team at Evolent Health. In plain terms, my job is to make it easier and safer for other engineers to ship — building the shared foundation our applications run on, and the self-service tooling that lets teams move without waiting on us. Before Evolent, Deutsche Telekom and ValueLabs.

I’m drawn to the unglamorous work that quietly pays off: the reusable building block that saves four teams from solving the same problem five different ways, the monitoring setup that answers questions for a fraction of what it used to cost, the guardrail that catches a security issue before it reaches production. Lately, a lot of that is helping AI do some of the operational heavy lifting— spotting problems earlier, and turning a confusing cloud bill into something a team can act on.

Good infrastructure is the kind nobody notices — it just works. That’s rather the point, and it’s the work I care most about. I write here about what I’ve learned along the way.

Amit Kumar, Senior Platform & DevOps Engineer

Now: Platform team, Evolent Health
Based: Bengaluru, India · Remote-friendly
Talk to me about: Kubernetes, AIOps, agentic ops automation

Stack

Cloud: Azure, AWS, AKS, EKS
Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Karpenter
Infrastructure: Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Ansible, Crossplane
CI/CD & GitOps: GitHub Actions, ARC, ArgoCD, Flux, Backstage, Jenkins, GitLab CI
Observability & SRE: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, Dynatrace, ELK, SLOs
AIOps: anomaly detection, event correlation, incident prediction, noise reduction
AI/MLOps: KubeFlow, KServe, Azure OpenAI, GPT-4o, Llama 3.2, Document Intelligence, RAG
Security: Kyverno, HashiCorp Vault, image signing, supply-chain integrity
Languages & Data: Go, Python, Bash, Kafka, Redis, Nginx

Certifications

Certified Kubernetes AdministratorCNCF / Linux FoundationVerified
Solutions Architect – AssociateAmazon Web ServicesVerified
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform AssociateHashiCorpVerified

Experience

2024 — NOWSenior Platform & DevOps Engineer, AI/MLOps · Evolent HealthOn a small platform team modernizing a legacy healthcare stack across Azure and AWS. Contributed the AKS foundation, the org’s first Backstage developer portal, an agentic FinOps engine in Go, the LGTM observability stack (−60% cost), KubeFlow/KServe AIOps, ephemeral ARC runners (−30%), and Kyverno image signing.
2022 — 2024DevOps Engineer · Deutsche TelekomGurgaon. On a lean three-engineer central platform team for an e-commerce product serving 8+ European countries: 4+ EKS clusters from scratch, a shared Jenkins, 40+ Helm-templatized microservices, 3 ELK clusters at 60 GiB/day, Kafka, Redis, and Dynatrace.
2020 — 2022DevOps Engineer · ValueLabsHyderabad. Managed AWS and on-prem architecture for Lifetouch — Bitbucket CI/CD, Terraform and CloudFormation, a RHEL 6→8 migration, and a 400+ server estate.
2016 — 2020B.Tech, Computer Science · Punjab Technical UniversityGraduated 72.5%. Published in IJTC, 2017 — "A Review Study of Net Trap: A Description Tool," on Java honeypot architecture.