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Kratik Jain
building cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling. Currently engineering infrastructure at Kutumb App serving ~4M daily active users.
Passionate about Kubernetes, IaC, and making developers' lives easier. CKA (100/100), CKS certified, and AWS DevOps Engineer Professional.
When not automating infrastructure, you'll find me building open-source tools, blogging about DevOps, or exploring heritage sites on my bike.
Projects
- MySQL Awesome Stats Collector
Self-hosted, agentless diagnostics tool for MySQL. Parallel collection of InnoDB status, global metrics, and processlists across multiple hosts with delta highlighting.
- ElastiCache Hot Shard Debugger
Web-based tool to identify hot shard issues in AWS ElastiCache. Real-time traffic capture across all shards with interactive visualizations and time-series analysis.
- AWS Multi-Level Cost Analyzer
Streamlit-based cost analysis tool for granular AWS spend drill-downs. Persistent SQLite cache, dynamic filters, "Top 5 Cost Movers" insights, and automated report generation.
- Smart RDS Viewer
Full-screen terminal CLI for real-time Amazon RDS monitoring. Live pricing integration, RI utilization analysis, and smart 24-hour pricing cache.
- Kratik SSH Resume
Interactive terminal-based portfolio served over SSH. Built with Go and Charmbracelet ecosystem (Bubble Tea, Wish, Lip Gloss) with tabbed UI navigation.
Experience
- 2022 — now Infrastructure Engineer | Kutumb App
Migrated kOps clusters to EKS, automated full-fledged EKS setup with Terraform/Helmfile, implemented Karpenter for autoscaling, deployed Vault for secrets management, and set up ArgoCD-based preview environments.
- 2019 — 2022 Software Engineer | Cuelogic Technologies (LTI)
Automated infrastructure with AWS CloudFormation and Ansible, optimized CI/CD pipelines, migrated apps from bare metal to Docker Swarm, and contributed to Python projects across multiple domains.
- 2019 Intern | Cuelogic Technologies
Trained in Linux, Networking, Docker, and Kubernetes. Worked on a SOC tool ingesting TBs of logs daily, replicated prod clusters with Vagrant & Ansible, and debugged K8s issues.
Skills
> Kubernetes
OrchestrationEKS, Karpenter, Helm, ArgoCD
6+
years of experience
> AWS
CloudEKS, EC2, S3, CloudFormation, Cost Optimization
6+
years of experience
> Terraform
IaCModule Composition, Remote State, AWS Provider
4+
years of experience
> Python
LanguageFastAPI, Django, Flask, CLI Tools
6+
years of experience
> ArgoCD / GitOps
DeploymentContinuous Delivery, Preview Environments, Argo Workflows
4+
years of experience
> Linux / Networking
SystemsSystem Administration, Debugging, Monitoring
6+
years of experience
Tech Stack
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- Docker
- Karpenter
- GitHub Actions
- ArgoCD
- GitOps
- Argo Workflows
- Prometheus
- Victoria Metrics
- Thanos
- Grafana
- Loki
- Elastic APM
- ElastAlert
- Vault
- External Secrets
- Vault Secrets Operator
- Python
- Bash
- Go
- FastAPI
- Django
- Flask
- Helm
- Helmfile
- Pritunl VPN
- External DNS
- Nginx
- Linux
- Networking
Certifications
Kubernetes
- Mar 2025
- Jan 2025
- Jan 2020
Amazon Web Services
- Nov 2022
Blog
- ndots : The Hidden DNS Logic Behind resolving Kubernetes Service Names Jan 2026
Ever wondered how Kubernetes resolves a service name like my-service without any domain attached?In this blog, we’ll dive into the DNS concept of ndots, understand how it works, and see how it plays a crucial role in Kubernetes DNS resolution. Before...
- EKS IAM Access Entries -
End of aws-auth ConfigMap! Aug 2024
Hi People! Hope you're happy managing your EKS clusters. There is this one thing we all do in our EKS related shenanigans - To provide an IAM entity access to your EKS Cluster. I personally find this annoying as I have to go and manually edit a Confi...
- EKS Pod Identity : A better way to delegate IAM access to pods Aug 2024
Hello Beautiful People of Internet! 👋 Hope you guys are doing well tinkering with your clusters :) The Question Let me ask you folks a question: "How do you provide IAM access to your pods in your EKS Cluster?" Possible Answers Hardcoding AWS Acc...
- Step by Step Guide to Create a Custom GitHub Action and Publish it to the GitHub Marketplace Apr 2024
Hello beautiful people of the internet ☘️Guess who decided to break the hiatus with some insightful blog. Hope you find value in this piece. Your feedback is appreciated. Intro to GitHub Actions I assume you already have some knowledge about GitHub ...
- How to use Vault with External Secrets for Kubernetes in Production? Oct 2023
Hello, beautiful people on the Internet! 🌻 Today we are going to discuss how can we optimize the flow of storing secrets in Kubernetes and Also, learn to empower our developers to View/Modify secrets deployed in our Kubernetes cluster. We'll also de...