// The story so far

From breaking things to keeping them up

Security first, then infrastructure — it turns out they are the same job.

School2013

Army Public School, Bathinda

10th · CBSE

  • Where the curiosity started.
Diploma2013 – 2016

SRM Institute of Technology, Chennai

Diploma · Electronics & Communication

  • Hardware first: signals, circuits, and the first Linux boxes.
EngineeringSep 2017 – Jun 2020

Kalinga Institute of Technology

B.Tech · Computer Science

  • Ethical hacking on the side — CEH in 2019, web-app pentesting, ICS security coursework.
CEH · 2019Pentester AcademyDHS ICS
First jobNov 2018 – Feb 2019

Reliance Jio

Security Engineer · Navi Mumbai

  • Deployed a host-based intrusion detection system on Wazuh with custom threat-detection rules.
  • Built a centralised SIEM pipeline on the ELK stack, feeding IDS events into real-time dashboards.
WazuhELK
LeadNov 2020 – May 2021

Redcarpetup.com (YC '15)

Lead DevOps Engineer · Delhi (remote)

  • Cut monthly AWS spend by ~37% — auditing, right-sizing, Spot Instances, sane auto-scaling.
  • Hardened the architecture to PCI-DSS; met NPCI/RBI guidelines incl. data localisation.
  • Terraform foundation, production Kubernetes, CI/CD from scratch.
AWSTerraformKubernetesPCI-DSS
PlatformJun 2021 – Jul 2022

Tweeny Technologies

DevOps Engineer · Pune (remote)

  • Moved core services off a legacy monolith onto ECS, event-driven pieces onto Lambda.
  • Migrated CI/CD from Jenkins to Harness + GitHub Actions; reusable modules for 50+ microservices.
  • Wrote an internal Go CLI that pulls configs and keys from HashiCorp Vault for local testing.
  • Refactored a tightly coupled Terraform codebase into clean modules.
ECSLambdaHarnessGoVault
NowAug 2023 – present

Obmondo

DevOps Engineer & Technical Account Manager · Mumbai (remote)

  • Operations and uptime for 200+ Linux servers and 50+ production Kubernetes clusters.
  • Drove the migration from Azure AKS to self-hosted Cluster API on Hetzner bare metal.
  • Crossplane Compositions for Kops and AKS replaced Terraform state files; drift gone, provisioning faster.
  • Gitea/GitHub Actions → ArgoCD for zero-downtime GitOps releases; Puppet patches the whole fleet.
  • Harbor + Kyverno as the image supply chain, Keycloak SSO everywhere, OpenObserve/Graylog/Prometheus/Grafana.
  • Local LLMs on bare-metal GPUs for internal Mattermost bots; primary TAM for enterprise clients on strict SLAs.
Cluster APICrossplaneArgoCDHarborKeycloakOpenObserve

CKA — Certified Kubernetes Administrator, 2026

and on the side

Open-source fixes in kubernetes-mixin, bitnami/charts and mattermost-helm; small Go tools (hop, opsbridge, tpaudit); and a tiny VPS run entirely as code — with a status page, CrowdSec, a self-hosted VPN and this site on it.

© 2026 Divyam Azad · built with curiosity, deployed with git push