Platform Engineer · SRE · Cloud Infrastructure
SDE 3 on Porter's Engineering Platform team. I build the delivery, infrastructure and security platform that application teams ship on.
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I work in the Porter engineering platform team. Most of what I do is making it easy for application teams to ship safely: GitOps delivery, shared Helm charts, self-serve infrastructure, observability and an in-house code security platform. I care about developer velocity without compromising on security.
From system administration to platform engineering.
Porter current
Tech-based logistics
Porter
Tech-based logistics
Apton Works
Crypto wallet
Geojit Financial
Financial services and stock broking
Baselios Poulose II Catholicos College, Piravom, Ernakulam
Mahatma Gandhi University
Girideepam Bethany Central School
CBSE
Girideepam Bethany Central School
CBSE
The Linux Foundation · CNCFThe Linux Foundation · CNCF Active
Certification ID: LF-c6x8bd5b26
Red HatRed Hat Expired
Certification ID: 190-245-951
Red HatRed Hat Expired
Certification ID: 190-245-951
HashiCorp45 tools I use to run, ship and secure the platform.
Cloud providers
GCP
AWSContainers and orchestration
Docker
KubernetesGKE
EKS
Amazon ECSAutoscaling
KEDAOperating system
LinuxDeployment
ArgoCDArgo Rollouts
HelmCI/CD and runners
GitHub ActionsARC runners
JenkinsVersion control
Git
GitHubInfrastructure as code
TerraformSecrets management
Developer portal
BackstageWorkflow orchestration
TemporalStreaming and messaging
Confluent KafkaLanguages
Python
Shell scriptingMetrics, logs and traces
Grafana LGTMLokiAlloy
PrometheusTelemetry pipelines
OpenTelemetry
Fluent BitAPM and monitoring
DatadogCloud MonitoringEngineering metrics (DORA)
API gateway and routing
KongGKE GatewayEdge security
Akamai WAFCode and dependency analysis
SonarQubeSoftware supply chain
Runtime and API security
Policy as code
OPAPlatform work I've built and run at Porter, from delivery to security.
Built and own a platform covering SAST, SBOM/SCA, secret scanning and container scanning on a Python and Temporal backend, with a Backstage developer portal. It replaced a commercial SaaS tool and saves ₹50L+ per year.
“Amazing work done by Nithin on CodeSek. It’s an amazing product, keeping user experience front and center. This will go a very long way for us to improve our overall security posture.”
Scalable CI on GitHub Actions, GitOps with ArgoCD, and canary releases with Argo Rollouts that roll back automatically on latency and error-rate metrics.
Reusable umbrella Helm charts that now power 150+ microservices.
An assistant that simplifies Terraform debugging through error analysis and automated problem resolution. Won a company-wide hackathon.
A major role in the AWS to GCP migration, which cut costs and modernised the infrastructure, including the GCP landing zone it was built on.
In-house staging environments on Kubernetes using ArgoCD and gateway header routing.
Self-hosted the telemetry stack on LGTM and unified it into a single platform.
Actions runners on Kubernetes, which cut workflow cost and queue time.
Modernised IaC pipelines so developers can create infrastructure with minimal dependency on the cloud infra team, reducing BAU overhead.
Blog posts and long-form handbooks.
The easiest way to reach me is LinkedIn.