all systems operational

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Hey, I'm Devesh Saini 👋

SRE {Cloud & DevOps}

🟢 Open to audits, projects and retainers · book a call →

I design, automate and run production infrastructure — Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, CI/CD and observability. When I'm off-call, I build small mobile apps for fun.

  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • GitHub Actions
  • Linux
  • Python
  • …and more
0+Years in Ops & Cloud
0.00%Uptime maintained
0+Incidents resolved
0%Avg. cloud cost saved

// about

About me

Portrait of Devesh Saini

I'm a site reliability engineer who treats production like a product: measured, automated, and boring in the best way. Over the years I've moved workloads to Kubernetes, rebuilt CI/CD pipelines, and put observability in place before incidents demanded it.

Off-call, I ship small mobile apps — partly for fun, partly because building the whole thing keeps my empathy for developers sharp.

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What I do

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Site Reliability Engineering

SLOs, error budgets, incident response and blameless postmortems — reliability as an engineering practice, not a hope.

Cloud Architecture

AWS and GCP design, multi-region setups, migrations and cost optimization that pays for itself.

Kubernetes & Containers

Cluster design, autoscaling, hardening and the boring operational discipline that keeps workloads healthy.

CI/CD & Automation

Pipelines, GitOps and release engineering — from commit to production without human toil.

Observability

Metrics, logs and traces with Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry. See problems before customers do.

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Infrastructure as Code

Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure that is reviewed, versioned and reproducible.

// career

Experience

2026 — Present

Solutions Engineer @ Smartsheet

Bridge engineering and customers for a leading work-management platform — designing technical solutions, building proof-of-concepts, and translating reliability and integration requirements into working implementations. The engineer in the room when the answer has to actually run in production.

2024 — 2026

Associate Consultant (SRE) @ Lingaro

Site reliability for enterprise data pipelines — kept large-scale ETL and analytics workloads healthy for global clients. Built Grafana dashboards and alerting that caught pipeline failures before business reports broke, and automated recurring incident toil across the platforms I supported.

2022 — 2024

Site Reliability Engineer @ Wipro

Ran production Java web applications on Linux — deployments, monitoring, incident response, and root-cause fixes. Automated routine operations with scripting and hardened the environments I supported, keeping the applications I owned stable and boring in the best way.

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Infrastructure I've shipped

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Hobby mobile apps

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// live from github

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// git journal

Engineering log

Migrated the homelab to k3s 1.33

Single-node to 3-node HA. Etcd snapshots to S3-compatible MinIO. Longhorn for storage.

TIL: ALB connection draining vs pod terminationGracePeriod

They must agree or you drop requests on deploys. Wrote a preStop sleep hook into our base chart.

Shipped ShiftBell v1.2

Handoff notifications now respect quiet hours. First feature built entirely from user feedback.

Load-tested the blog with k6

1,200 rps on a $5 VPS thanks to SQLite + one Node process. Boring tech wins again.

// education & certs

Education & certifications

2024

CKA — Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Score 94/100

2023

AWS Solutions Architect — Professional

Amazon Web Services

2022

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

HashiCorp

2022

BCA (Bachelor of Computer Applications)

Quantum University

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Publications

All 1 publications →
Service Level Mastery: SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets — A Practical Guide to Defining, Measuring, and Delivering Reliable Services cover
eBook · 2026

Service Level Mastery: SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets — A Practical Guide to Defining, Measuring, and Delivering Reliable Services

Self

Your service went down at 2 a.m. Was that acceptable? Nobody knows — because nobody ever defined what "reliable" means.

Get the book →

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What teams say

Devesh rebuilt our deployment pipeline and our on-call stopped being a nightmare within a month. The postmortem culture he introduced outlasted his contract.
Priya RamanVP Engineering, FinEdge
Rare mix: deep infrastructure knowledge and the patience to teach it. Our cloud bill dropped 40% and the team understood why.
Marcus ChenCTO, CloudScale
Handed him a fragile legacy stack; got back Terraform, runbooks, and a team that ships daily.
Sarah OkaforHead of Platform, HostWorks

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Ways to work together

Infra Audit

$999 one-time
  • Architecture & security review
  • Cost analysis with savings plan
  • Reliability risk report
  • Prioritized fix list
  • Delivered in 1 week
Choose Infra Audit

SRE Retainer

$3,500 per month
  • Ongoing reliability engineering
  • Incident response support
  • Monthly SLO & cost reviews
  • Unlimited async questions
  • Pause or cancel anytime
Choose SRE Retainer

Project

$4,900 per project
  • Migration, pipeline or K8s setup
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Monitoring & runbooks included
  • Handover & team training
  • 30 days post-launch support
Choose Project

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From the blog

#Observability1 min

Set SLOs before you build dashboards

Teams drowning in Grafana panels usually skipped one step: deciding what reliability actually means for their users.

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Common questions

What kind of projects do you take on?

Cloud migrations, Kubernetes setups, CI/CD pipelines, observability rollouts and reliability audits. Anything from a one-week infra audit to a multi-month migration.

Do you work remotely?

Yes — I work with teams worldwide, async-first, with overlap hours agreed up front.

What does an engagement look like?

We start with a short call, I scope the work into a fixed plan with milestones, and every project ends with documentation, runbooks and a handover session for your team.

Can you support us after the project?

Yes. The SRE Retainer covers ongoing reliability work, incident support and monthly reviews — or 30 days of support is included with every project.

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