A reflection of the eternal and infinity neither born not destroyed yet changing itself in every moment. Hi I am Akash that's my identifier in this world. I am an explorer of the unknown and seeker of the truth. Yeah I know that sounds too melancholic but it is.
Anyways, I am a techie by profession and a philosopher by heart. I love to code and create solutions for DevOps which are simple and effective and serves the purpose. I love the work I do and care about it for me its a holy grail polished with the blood and sweat of my hardwork and dedication.
Assisting in the builds and deployments of the microservices & handling intigrations for build pipelines, also access management and tasks on the cloud (AWS & GCP) and on various third party intigrated tools.
Working on the observibiity stack, during the internship I setup an infrastructure for observing API's uptime which includes Containerisation of the core application (Uptime) using docker, creating a CICD pipeline for Uptime using Jenkins and deployment on the AWS. The Uptime solution had a major impact, thy which the team was able to calculate extremely accurate uptime and health of the services with alearts on the communication channels in case of failures along with other features like ability to export metrics data.
Since the begining of the college, I started being an active paticipant for various Hackathons and Competitions by helping out teams either in thier project or by consultations. Infact I managed to win annual hackathon organised on Engineer's day by the college for all UIC departments, I secured 3rd position single handedly defeating other Team compititions.
For me Tech is a important aspect of my life not becasue its my profession but I just love to build stuff. I hardly have to force myself to code I just feel doing it.
Experimenting is the key for everything. I just experiment with the stuff during that phase problems occur - those problems provide me the opportunity to solve them and learn something new. I love to solve problems unknown not the ones with predefined answers also I love to explore the depths of the skill which provide me with the ability to solve the problems in a more efficient way.
Throught this experiment journey I have build a decent skillset to solve problems in various fields including ~
Creating solutions which are simple and effective is the main goal. Hiding the complexity yet maintaining the functionality is the key. Throught the journey I have solved various problems also created roubust solutions.
Here are some of the key projects which I have worked on.
A three tier containerised Observibiity stack build for scrapping storing and visualizing logs and metrics, build using technologies exporters (promtail and node exporter) , Loki, Prometheus for storing metrics and logs and Grafana for Visualisations
A utility to run isolated containerised dev environments for development, free from any dependencies or configs
A solution to host Git server from scratch with secure access using tunnel, system administration using cockpit. The setup can be done with the help of flexiable automated shell scripts which handles everything from networking to hosting.
A containerised macro hybrid pipeline with continuous intigration, delivery & deployments. This website is currently deployed on this pipeline. The pipeline is user centric one can spawn any environment like 'Build', 'Preprod' all by spawning a containers using docker compose