Santosh Bitra

Infrastructure · Reliability · Automation

Santosh Bitra

Senior DevOps/SRE Engineer

I design and operate secure, reliable cloud platforms using AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability.

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  • ReversibleKubernetes chaos experiments designed with policy checks and rollback paths
  • Private by defaultEKS worker nodes with explicit network, IAM, and security boundaries
  • Recovery readyEncrypted incremental backups with retention and a documented restore path

Published work

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Chaos Sensei project mark showing a stable system around a controlled disruption
MVPKubernetes · Policy-driven automation

Chaos Sensei

Teams need realistic failure practice, but ad hoc chaos experiments can be difficult to understand, approve, and reverse safely.

Outcome: Established a provider-oriented design for adding failure mechanisms without coupling them to repository analysis.

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Homelab recovery project mark showing encrypted backups moving from a server to cloud storage
PRODUCTIONRestic · Amazon S3

Homelab disaster recovery

A homelab can be rebuilt from code only if its stateful data and recovery procedure survive host or storage failure.

Outcome: Automated encrypted incremental backups to off-host Amazon S3 storage.

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Production EKS project mark showing a Kubernetes cluster inside a protected AWS network
PRODUCTIONAmazon Web Services · Amazon EKS

Production-grade EKS infrastructure

Kubernetes teams need repeatable AWS infrastructure that makes network boundaries, identity, and validation explicit instead of relying on one-off cluster setup.

Outcome: Produced a reusable Terraform structure for EKS, networking, IAM, and security controls.

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Capabilities

Engineering with evidence

Field notes

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Medium

We Ditched IRSA for Pod Identity When Setting Up Karpenter — Here’s Exactly How We Did It

A practical account of moving from Cluster Autoscaler to Karpenter on Amazon EKS with Pod Identity, including IAM setup, authentication decisions, and troubleshooting notes.

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Medium

Kafka Architecture — From Basics to Quick References of Kafka (1)

An approachable introduction to Kafka producers, clusters, consumers, data flow, and message-delivery semantics, supported by quick-reference diagrams.

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Medium

Grocery Shopping with HTTP Codes

A light-hearted explanation of common HTTP status codes using a familiar grocery-shopping scenario.

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Medium

Kubernetes — Practical HandNotes for DevOps Engineer (Part-1)

Practical notes on Kubernetes architecture, control-plane and worker-node components, request flow, foundational kubectl commands, and cluster setup resources.

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Medium

Kubernetes — Practical HandNotes for DevOps Engineer (Part-2)

The second set of practical Kubernetes notes, continuing the series with workload and day-to-day cluster concepts for DevOps engineers.

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Professional experience

Operating systems that teams depend on

My work focuses on secure cloud foundations, Kubernetes platforms, delivery automation, observability, and practical reliability engineering.

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