Hey folks, I'm Rishikesh — Senior Platform & DevOps Engineer with 7 years of experience, currently available after my contract ended due to layoffs from Invisible Technologies. What I've been building: • End-to-end CI/CD and platform infra for 15+ production client environments — 6+ months with zero unplanned downtime • Re-architected Celery worker pools (single-queue → multi-queue) that cut a representative task from ~10 min → 1–2 min, measured in Datadog APM • Deployed OpenBao across 5 production K8s clusters for in-cluster secrets management, replacing a SaaS tool to meet client compliance requirements • Built Backstage service-bootstrap templates used as the daily golden path for new service creation across the engineering org • Provisioned AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, and secrets management for RL / agentic training environments (Meta ARE-inspired isolation architecture) • Worked on evaluating and implementing service mesh in the infra (Istio and Linkerd) Stack: Python (Django, FastAPI, Celery), Kubernetes, Terraform/OpenTofu, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Postgres, AWS/GCP Looking for: Senior/Staff Platform Engineer, SRE, or DevOps. Remote preferred. (Flexible to any timezone) Open to contract or FTE. Happy to share my resume — DM me or reply here. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishikesh-vijay-gajelli/ Github: github.com/AlphaRishi1229