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I take freelance consulting and training work in DevOps, DevSecOps and cloud infrastructure. Twenty years in, most of it operational.

What I do

• Kubernetes and containers — EKS, Helm, Rancher, rootless Podman, migrations off VMs
• Cloud infrastructure — AWS and Azure, Terraform, CloudFormation, cost optimisation
• CI/CD and security — GitLab and Jenkins pipelines with SAST, DAST, container and dependency scanning
• Compliance — SOC2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 programmes, from gap analysis to audit
• Automation — Python, ServiceNow, LogicMonitor, PagerDuty, Slack workflows and bots
• Training — Linux, Kubernetes, SaltStack and DevOps practice, for teams

Selected results

• Designed a secure multi-tenant infrastructure for ML processing of medical images — rootless containers giving complete per-vendor isolation
• Reduced Azure infrastructure cost by over 50%
• Led ISO 27001 certification; played a pivotal role in attaining and maintaining SOC2 and HIPAA
• Built a 20-member L2 support team from scratch
• Migrated a Python SaaS application to Kubernetes on AWS EKS

Certification history

AWS Certified Developer – Associate, 2023–26 · Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS), 2021–23 · Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), 2019–22 · Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), 2019–21 · Certified Hyperledger Fabric Administrator, 2020–23 · CISSP, 2016–19 · ITIL Foundation, 2015

Get in touch

Email ashish@prahari.net with what you're trying to do and roughly when. I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right person.