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Your infra is slowing your team down.
Let's fix that.

I'm Ashwini, a SRE and Platform Engineer with 7 years at high-growth B2B SaaS startups. I help engineering teams untangle infrastructure chaos so engineers ship features instead of fighting fires.

Schedule a 45-min call → Proof of work
400 to 10
alerts/week after redesigning alerting at Hasura
$10K to $420
annual security tooling cost via gokakashi
8 hrs
mean time to detect vulnerabilities, resolving 88+ issues/month
300+
clusters owned across multi-cloud release engineering
Sound familiar?
"We have a big release in 4 weeks and I'm scared our systems won't hold."

The team is heads-down building. Nobody has asked the hard question: what happens when this hits production at scale?

At Hasura, the team was absorbing 450+ alerts/week heading into a major V2/V3 release. I introduced a symptoms-based alerting framework, ran a 4-week sprint, and built tooling to automate manual responses. Result: 10 meaningful alerts/week. The release shipped. Engineers stayed sane.
Faster releases, lower attrition risk. Engineers focused on shipping, not firefighting.
"Our on-call rotation is destroying my team and I can't fix it."

Engineers paged at 2am for alerts that resolve themselves. They've stopped trusting the system. Alert fatigue is invisible until it becomes a retention problem.

I've been in this exact situation. Instead of adjusting to the chaos, I studied the system, wrote a framework, and rebuilt alerting from the ground up: cause vs symptom, severity taxonomy, playbooks, and automation for toil that didn't need a human. Your team deserves to sleep.
Replacing one senior engineer costs 6+ months of salary and 3 months ramp time. Alert fatigue is an attrition risk. Fix it before they leave.
"We're closing an enterprise deal and they're asking about our security posture."

They want SOC2 evidence, access audit logs, proof that the right people have the right access to production. One failed audit can kill a deal worth months of runway.

At CleverTap, I built a RBAC system using Terraform registries, Go, and Keycloak with SAML/SSO across 60+ platforms including AWS IAM, Atlassian, Slack, and Expensify. Every employee's permissions lived in a single versioned file. Onboarding: 1 hour. Offboarding: delete the file, merge the PR. SOC audit became a non-event.
Unblocked enterprise sales. Compliance-ready infra becomes a competitive advantage, not a blocker.
What I do
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Reliability and alerting architecture

Alerts fire constantly and half mean nothing. I design alerting systems, SLO frameworks, and incident processes that surface what actually matters, and cut the rest.

Outcome: your engineers sleep through the night
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Release engineering and CI/CD design

Deployments are slow, scary, or both. I redesign CI/CD pipelines and release workflows so teams ship with confidence: self-serve, fast, and safe across environments and clusters.

Outcome: your team ships without fear
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Security automation and infra hygiene

Security is an afterthought until it isn't. I build vulnerability scanning workflows, IAM/RBAC systems, and compliance-ready infrastructure that fits into your engineering workflow.

Outcome: security that doesn't slow you down
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Infrastructure architecture advisory

Making big infra decisions and want a senior perspective before you commit? I review your architecture, challenge assumptions, and help you design for the next 18 months of growth.

Outcome: decisions you won't regret at 10x scale
How it works
01
We talk

45-minute call. You describe what's broken. No pitch, no agenda.

02
I propose

A scoped proposal with 2 to 3 options at different depths, fixed prices.

03
We build

Design, docs, and handoff with knowledge transfer so your team owns it.

I don't do day-to-day on-call or operations. I design systems and hand them to your team.

A bit about me
Ashwini Gaddagi

I'm Ashwini Gaddagi, SRE, platform engineer, and creator of gokakashi, an open-source container vulnerability scanner used in production. I've worked across the full infrastructure stack at Hasura, Last9, and CleverTap. I work with a small number of clients at a time, so you get my full attention.

Want to vet how I think first? I write about infra, systems, and the real conversations that happen in engineering orgs on Bluesky.
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Sound like what you need?

Tell me what's going wrong. A 45-minute conversation usually brings the real problem into focus.

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Or email ashwiniagwork@gmail.com, I respond within 24 hours.