Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer

Ashutosh Patole

I spend my days on OpenShift, Azure, Terraform, and Linux.

I love fixing things in Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Azure and I write down what holds up.

Open to work

Portrait of Ashutosh Patole

Five years in production

Every number below is from my resume. The PDF and references are one email away.

6

OpenShift (ARO) clusters, 9 to 15 workers each

20+

Mission-critical apps on those clusters

30%

Faster IBM MDM deployments via CI/CD

$17K

One-time client cloud spend saved

Jul 2024 - Present, Chennai

Infrastructure Specialist, Mastech Digital

  • Own end-to-end deployment, configuration, maintenance, and upgrades of 6 ARO clusters (9 to 15 worker nodes each) running 20+ mission-critical IBM MDM applications.
  • Engineered Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for IBM MDM apps, cutting deployment time 30% and improving release reliability.
  • Led a 3-month ARO and Azure optimization initiative that cut $17K in client cloud spend with no loss in performance or availability.
  • Drive RCA on production incidents and administer Application Gateway, load balancers, DNS zones, private endpoints, and RBAC to enterprise compliance standards.

Azure DevOps, ARO, Terraform, Application Gateway, Prometheus, Grafana

May 2021 - Jun 2024, Chennai

Associate, Infrastructure and Managed Services, Mastech Digital

  • Designed and built an internal Azure governance tool with approval workflows and auto-deletion scheduling, eliminating unused resources and saving $2.5K in cloud costs.
  • Researched and rolled out LibreNMS monitoring across 4 projects where none existed, with automated alerts on CPU, memory, disk, network, and HTTP endpoints.
  • Automated on-prem OpenShift and DB2 provisioning with end-to-end installation pipelines for IBM MDM implementations.

Python, Bash, LibreNMS, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenShift, DB2

2021, Chennai

B.E. Computer Science, St. Joseph's College of Engineering

CGPA 8.25/10.

This page matches my resume line for line. Email me for the PDF or references.

What I reach for

Cloud

Azure, OpenShift, Azure DevOps

Delivery

Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm

Languages

Python, Bash, Go, TypeScript

Selected work

Tools and setups I built and still use.

Go - starred on GitHub

ssm

Open-source Go CLI that streamlines SSH connections, automates key rotation, and syncs configs across devices.

Open on GitHub

Go

bin

Linux command-line tools ported to Windows as fast, portable standalone executables.

Open on GitHub

TypeScript - this website

Blog platform

Next.js on Cloudflare. MDX blogs with a private writing studio.

38

Public repos and counting

Go tools, shell setups, and notes, all in the open.

Find me on GitHub

From the blog

Latest writing

Short notes from production experience. The archive holds the rest.

2024-09-25 - 9 min read

Waybill API Down: Four Broken Layers

The waybill pods would not even schedule, and behind that waited three more faults: a missing Secret key, a purposeless sidecar probe, and a Service selector matching nothing.

2024-08-20 - 7 min read

Payments API Down While Pods Are Ready

The checkout pods were 1/1 Ready with populated endpoints, yet the payments API refused connections — then returned HTTP 500 after the first fix. Two layers: a wrong Service targetPort and a Secret with a trailing newline.

2024-08-16 - 6 min read

Pod is running but not ready

In this article, we will troubleshoot a scenario where the pod is running but not ready. We will explore the possible reasons for this issue and how to resolve it.

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“Do one thing and do it well!”
My GitHub bio, and how I work

I am an Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer at Mastech Digital, based in Chennai, India. For 5+ years I have designed, automated, and operated cloud-native platforms on Microsoft Azure, including OpenShift clusters running 20+ production applications.

This site is my resume and my notebook. The blogs live one click away.

Have infrastructure that needs to hold up?

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