Dhanush Gowda
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Available for projects
Bengaluru · Remote globally

YOUR INFRA SHOULDN'T SLOW YOU DOWN.

01 — Services

What I Fix
For You.

Each service built around one goal: your engineers ship features, not fight fires at 2 AM.

01 — CLOUD

Cloud Infra
That Scales

Multi-region AWS environments with proper VPC design, auto-scaling, and cost controls. Your infra grows with you — not against you.

AWS · EC2 · EKS · RDS · S3 · CloudFront · Route53 · VPC · IAM · Cost Explorer

02 — CI/CD

Pipelines That
Deploy Fearlessly

GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, and ArgoCD GitOps — automated testing, staging gates, one-click rollback. Deploys go from scary to boring.

GitHub Actions · GitLab CI/CD · ArgoCD · Jenkins · Docker · Helm · Semantic Versioning

03 — K8s

Kubernetes That
Heals at 3 AM

Self-healing clusters that auto-scale with KEDA, deploy with zero downtime, and recover from failures — while you sleep.

Kubernetes · Helm · KEDA · HPA · Cert-Manager · Ingress · Lens · Containerd

04 — OBSERVE

Monitoring That
Wakes You First

Full Prometheus + Grafana + Loki observability. Smart alerting catches problems in minutes — not after customers tweet about it.

Prometheus · Grafana · Loki · Alertmanager · OpenTelemetry · Tempo · Uptime Kuma

02 — Case Studies

Problems I've
Already Solved.

003 case studies

Enterprise Platform

The "Works On My Machine"
Problem — Killed Forever

ProxmoxAWS TerraformGitHub ActionsDocker

The situation: Engineers blamed "environment differences" while production burned weekly. Every deploy was a ceremony — not a process. Team trust in releases was near zero.

Identical 3-tier architecture on Proxmox (dev) and AWS (prod) via Terraform — zero manual config drift
GitHub Actions pipelines run identical steps in both envs — environment drift eliminated completely
Weekly fear-releases became daily confident deploys — release cycle cut 60%
0
Env Drift
↓60%
Deploy Time

SaaS Platform Migration

Moved Off AWS. Saved
Thousands. Lost Nothing.

AWSE2E Cloud TerraformDockerPrometheus

The situation: AWS bills were compressing margins. Board wanted out. Full migration — compute, storage, databases, networking — with zero tolerance for data loss or downtime.

Mapped entire AWS stack, rebuilt on E2E Cloud with Terraform modules — fully reproducible, zero manual drift
3-week phased migration with parallel environments — users experienced nothing. Zero bytes lost
CI/CD, Prometheus alerting, and Grafana dashboards rebuilt on new infra from day one of cutover
0
Data Loss
↓$$$
Monthly Cost

Microservices Platform

From "Don't Deploy Friday"
to "Deploy Whenever"

KubernetesDockerHelm KEDAPrometheusGrafana

The situation: VM-based deploys were all-hands ceremonies. One bad deploy took everything down. Features piled up because the team was afraid to ship.

Containerized all 12 services with K8s + Helm — rolling updates and automatic rollback on every release
KEDA + HPA auto-scale on event-driven load — team handles traffic spikes without touching a keyboard
Prometheus + Grafana provide real-time visibility into every deploy — 99.9% uptime sustained
99.9%
Uptime
Auto-Scale
03 — Tech Stack

Tools I Use To
Build Yours.

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01
AWS
Primary cloud · Multi-region
EC2EKSRDSS3VPC

Multi-region · Cost optimization · IAM least-privilege

02
Kubernetes
Container orchestration
HelmHPAKEDARBAC

Self-healing · Rolling deploys · Event-driven scale

03
Terraform
Infrastructure as Code
ModulesStateWorkspaces

Version-controlled · Reproducible · Multi-cloud

04
Docker
Containerisation
Multi-StageBuildKitCompose

Slim images · Secure builds · Registry management

05
ArgoCD
GitOps continuous delivery
GitOpsSyncRollbacks

Declarative · Full audit trail · Auto-sync from Git

06
Prometheus
Metrics & alerting
PromQLExportersAlertmanager

Custom metrics · Smart thresholds · On-call routing

07
Grafana
Observability dashboards
DashboardsLokiTempoOTel

Unified logs + metrics + traces in one pane

08
GitHub Actions
CI/CD pipelines
WorkflowsOIDCMatrixSecrets

Test → Build → Deploy · Rollback · Full audit

09
Linux
Systems engineering
DebianUbuntuRHELBash

Networking · Security hardening · Performance tuning

10
Azure
Secondary cloud
AKSBlobVNetPipelines

Multi-cloud · Migration · Cost arbitrage

11
Proxmox
On-prem virtualisation
VMsLXCClustering

Hybrid dev/staging · Cost-efficient bare metal

12
OpenTelemetry
Distributed tracing
TracesMetricsLogs

Vendor-neutral · Full-stack observability

SHIP FASTER. Sleep Better.

I'm Dhanush Gowda — a DevOps & Cloud Engineer based in Bengaluru who builds infrastructure for startups that are serious about scaling without burning out their team.

My clients come to me when their setup has become a liability — slow deploys, flaky environments, surprise cloud bills, or a production fire that cost them users. I fix the root cause and put systems in place that permanently remove infrastructure as a bottleneck.

I work with founding teams and engineering leads across early-stage startups. If your engineers are shipping features instead of fighting infra after we work together — that's a win.

Based in Bengaluru, India. Available for remote engagements worldwide. I typically respond to new enquiries within 24 hours.

AWSAzure KubernetesDocker TerraformArgoCD PrometheusGrafana LokiOpenTelemetry GitHub ActionsGitLab CI HelmKEDA LinuxProxmox
Production Uptime 99.9%
Data Losses — Ever 0
Deploy Time Reduction ↓60%
Production Systems 5+

"Your infrastructure should be a competitive advantage for your team — not the reason your best engineers are paged at 3 AM. That's what I build toward, every engagement."

Zero data losses across all projects
Responds within 24 hours
Remote-first · Available globally
Contract · Freelance · Full-time engagements
Based in Bengaluru, India

Your Infra,
Fixed.
Let's Talk.

If your team spends more time fighting infrastructure than building product — that's a fixable problem. Scope it together in a quick email.

Currently accepting new clients
dhanushks001@zohomail.in
Location
Bengaluru, India
Response time
Within 24 hours
Work mode
Remote globally · On-site Bengaluru
Engagement types
Contract · Freelance · Full-time
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