Engineer · writer

Building systems that hold up.
Writing about the boring parts that make them work.

I'm Chinmaya — an engineer who works across the stack, from the applications people use to the systems behind them. This site is where I keep the thinking that doesn't fit on a pull-request description.

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What I work on

Cloud Infrastructure

Designing multi-tenant footprints across cloud platforms — resource hierarchies, org policies, identity boundaries, and the boring plumbing that keeps a platform predictable as it scales.

CloudTerraformIAMNetworkingOrg policy

Kubernetes & Platform Engineering

Operators, autoscaling, multi-cluster routing, and the long tail of platform work — making the abstractions feel kind to the teams that have to live inside them.

KubernetesHelmOperatorsVPA / HPAArgo

Developer Tooling & Automation

CLIs, integrations, CI/CD workflows, and small internal tools that compound. Removing the friction nobody notices until it is gone.

GoPythonBashGitHub ActionsArgo

Recent writingAll writing →

Illustration of NeuVector stopping SimpleSAMLphp at a barrier in a Kubernetes environment

Featured·kubernetes·5 min read

Aggressive NeuVector Stopped SSO

A weekend SSO outage led me from a blocked PHP lint process to a memory-starved NeuVector controller and a live SSP group it had deleted as unused.

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Illustration of Jev sorting requests into trays labeled yes, use tool, needs more info, and no

ai·5 min read

Jev: A Model for Focused Decisions

What if your inbox could sort emails, flag urgent ones, and show which need a reply? I tried all three questions with Jev.