Hi 👋! My name is Saai Sudarsanan
I am a Cloud Engineer and I have only one skill, the skill to learn things quickly. I dabble in a lot of things, while mostly concentrating in Cloud Computing, I also have a good amount of knowledge in Distributed Systems, Cybersecurity,Economics, Markets and Game Theory,etc.
🏆 Achievements & Engineering Highlights
Welcome to a collection of some of my most impactful contributions — from Kubernetes migrations to building observability and improving system reliability at scale.
🚀 Kubernetes Migration & Infrastructure Modernization
- Migrated core Clojure services to Kubernetes (DEV & PROD).
- Developed reusable Helm charts for scalable and maintainable deployments.
- Collaborated across teams to ensure zero-downtime rollouts and seamless infrastructure adoption.
- Conducted knowledge transfer sessions to onboard devs to the Kubernetes ecosystem.
📈 Observability & Monitoring Enhancements
- Integrated distributed tracing using Jaeger and OpenTelemetry for performance visibility across microservices.
- Set up centralized logging with Fluent Bit and OpenSearch, improving system debugging and monitoring.
- Implemented ISM policies and disk alerts to optimize resource usage and maintain cluster health.
⚙️ Operational Excellence
- Automated deployment pipelines using Jenkins and Helm, reducing build + deploy times by up to 75%.
- Solved critical PROD issues, from scaling bottlenecks to log ingestion failures and service restarts.
- Migrated workloads to Spot Instances, and introduced Pod Disruption Budgets (PDBs) for high availability.
📚 Documentation & Developer Enablement
- Authored detailed guides on Kubernetes migration, Helm chart best practices, and Terraform-based provisioning.
- Led internal workshops on tools like ArgoCD, Grafana, and Jenkins to increase team self-sufficiency.
- Promoted a culture of knowledge sharing and blameless retrospectives.
📌 TL;DR
- 🧠 Infra you can trust.
- 📊 Observability that helps.
- 🔐 Security that’s not an afterthought.
- ⚡ CI/CD that doesn’t waste your time.
- 💬 Docs and tooling that empower engineers.