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Site reliability engineer

Abhinav C

Nine years of keeping production up and AWS bills down.

Cut a compute bill by more than half once. Still brings it up at dinner.

All systems operational

Writing

All writing

Things I built

  • v0.6 · Rust

    torana

    A reverse proxy small enough to read: one ~5 MB Rust binary with HTTP/2, automatic HTTPS, mTLS, health checks and sandboxed WASM plugins.

    • Rust
    • rustls
    • WASM
    • Prometheus
    The write-up Source
  • Go

    Green Computing Scheduler

    A carbon-aware Kubernetes scheduler that holds batch jobs until the grid is cleaner, using WattTime or Electricity Maps data.

    • Go
    • Kubernetes
    • Prometheus
    The write-up
  • macOS · Windows · Linux

    NodeMinus

    A menu-bar app that finds every node_modules folder on your machine and gets the disk space back, with deletes guarded in the Rust backend.

    • Rust
    • Tauri
    The write-up Source
  • Go CLI

    gflow

    One command from local changes to an open pull request, following your team's branch, commit and review conventions on GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket.

    • Go
    • GitHub
    • GitLab
    • Bitbucket
    The write-up
  • Rust CLI

    rjx

    A jq-style JSON query tool in Rust, aimed at large inputs like Terraform state and API dumps.

    • Rust
  • Go CLI

    goget

    A concurrent, resumable wget alternative in Go that downloads straight to and from S3.

    • Go
    • AWS S3

Periodic table of things I keep running

32 elements
AWSWakes up knowing it

Professional-certified. EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS, EKS, CloudFormation, CDK, CodePipeline, CloudWatch and EMR.

How to read the little bars
Knows where the docs areFixes it with the docs openShips it to prodWakes up knowing it

Work

Now

  • Mastercard
  • Verizon

Before

  • First Orion
  • American Express
  • Aegon Asset Management
  • NextEra Energy Resources
  • Visa

Life & travel

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Weathered wooden mine structures beside a green pond, surrounded by pines and yellowing shrubs.
Old mine works by the water
A gravel road running between pines and aspens toward a mountain with ski runs.
Gravel road toward the peaks
A white mountain goat standing on a rocky slope in bright sun.
Mountain goat
Mountain ranges seen through the frame of an old ruined doorway with an iron railing.
Through an old doorway
A small lake below forested ridges under a sky full of white clouds.
Lake below the ridgeline
Rolling alpine tundra in autumn colors under large white clouds.
Above the treeline

Also

AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Professional. MS in Computer Science, Northern Illinois University. Works mostly in Terraform, Python and Bash.