Aakash
Parmar

DevSecOps & Kubernetes

Build.Secure.Scale.

I'm a DevOps engineer who cares a lot about security. Day to day that means Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, locked down container images, Vault for secrets and policies that stop bad deploys early.

About

I've spent the last three years running Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure in production. Most of my work is taking clusters that already run, finding the gaps, fixing them and keeping them up.

Working on production infra
3yrs
Working on production infra
Apps running at 99.9% uptime
30+
Apps running at 99.9% uptime
CI/CD pipelines with security checks
25+
CI/CD pipelines with security checks

Experience

Where I've
worked.

  1. Sep 2024 to Present

    Orscope Technologies LLP

    DevOps Engineer

    • Kubernetes
    • ArgoCD
    • GitHub Actions
    • Vault
    • Kyverno
    • Cilium
    • Istio
    • Karpenter
    • NVIDIA MIG
    • CI/CD pipelines

      Set up pipelines for 25+ projects using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD. Every build goes through SAST, dependency checks and image scanning, and all config sits in one central repo. Deploys now take seconds.

    • Kubernetes audits

      Went through our live clusters one by one and fixed what wasn't ready for production: CIS Benchmark checks, tighter RBAC and proper audit logs. They now run 30+ apps at 99.9% uptime on 256GB of RAM.

    • Smaller, safer images

      Rebuilt our container images without a shell, package manager or sudo. If someone does get code execution, there isn't much they can install or use to move around.

    • Secrets and policies

      Moved secrets into Vault and Sealed Secrets/SOPS. Added OPA, Kyverno and Gatekeeper rules to the GitOps flow so insecure manifests get rejected before they reach production.

    • Networking with Cilium

      Helped split a monolith into microservices on Istio, then added Cilium/eBPF network policies and runtime monitoring. Prometheus and Grafana for metrics, Karpenter, KEDA, VPA and HPA for scaling.

    • GPU sharing for AI

      Used MIG, vGPU, time slicing and fractional GPUs so more teams could share the same cards safely, including teams running 671B and 405B parameter LLMs. Also set up KubeVirt with SR-IOV passthrough for VMs.

  2. Jul 2023 to Aug 2024

    Freelance, Remote

    Software Developer

    • AWS
    • Terraform
    • CloudFormation
    • Prometheus
    • Grafana
    • AWS setup

      Built AWS environments (EC2, Fargate, ECR) with CloudFormation and kept security groups, IAM roles and load balancers on least privilege.

    • Terraform

      Wrote Terraform for VPCs, subnets and compute across availability zones, with a disaster recovery plan and reviewed changes.

    • Monitoring

      Set up Prometheus, Grafana and AlertManager and wired in audit logs. Incidents got picked up and fixed about 25% faster.

Projects

Things I've
built.

  • 12MB RAM

    Side project

    Tiny Linux OS

    My own stripped down Linux build. The ISO is 13MB, it runs in 12MB of RAM, and it still has SSH, FTP, Telnet, Wget and Curl.

    • Linux
    • Kernel
    • Security
  • 30% less overhead

    Open source

    CRI-O on Flatcar

    An install script for running CRI-O on Flatcar Linux. Useful on small machines where you want a lean, locked down container runtime.

    • CRI-O
    • Flatcar
    • Containers
  • Open source, PR #2256

    Nextcloud entrypoint fix

    Fixed the retry logic in Nextcloud's docker-entrypoint.sh so installs stop failing halfway.

    • Docker
    • Bash
    • Nextcloud
  • Open source, PR #4503

    LAPACK dpttrf fix

    Fixed build and runtime errors in lapack/dpttrf so it compiles and returns the right results again.

    • Fortran
    • Numerical
    • Build

Skills

What I
work with.

Security

  • SAST / SCA
  • Image scanning
  • HashiCorp Vault
  • Sealed Secrets
  • SOPS
  • OPA
  • Kyverno
  • Gatekeeper
  • RBAC / IAM
  • CIS Benchmarks
  • Audit logging
  • Cilium / eBPF

DevOps & CI/CD

  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • Jenkins
  • ArgoCD
  • Flux
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Helm
  • Git

Cloud

  • AWS
  • Istio
  • Envoy
  • Kong
  • Karpenter
  • KEDA
  • KubeVirt
  • cert-manager
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Jaeger
  • CRDs

Languages

  • Go
  • Python
  • Bash
  • JavaScript
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • Gin
  • React
  • Next.js

Contact

Let's ship
something secure.

Looking for DevOps, DevSecOps or platform roles. Based in India, happy to work remote.