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