12+ years experience building cloud-scale products. I help startups speak cloud.My name is Ayush Sharma. I’m a trained software engineer who specializes in reliability engineering andcloud cost optimization.My foray into technology began in early 2008 when I solved a problem for my local clinic.Our family physician would spend a lot of time writing prescriptions by hand and I proposed a smallweb application to automate the process. This application featured management of patient records,prescriptions, appointments, and the generation of medical reports. It solved a very clear problem: itallowed doctors to spend less time on administrative tasks and focus more on patient-care.My professional career began from there. In brief, I began as a software engineer and eventually movedto a more global cloud-oriented role with a focus on automation, governance, and security. I later beganspecializing in DevOps and infrastructure automation, orchestrating thousands of servers at a time.Lately my curiosity has led me to Serverless, the JAMStack, and Containers.As a senior engineer with proven cloud expertise, I often collaborate with product, business, compliance, and security teams and recommend best-practices. I have a strong bias for action and I've maintained a solution-oriented approach throughout my career. I like to solve problems for people and use my technical skills to identify the best approach for the job.Solving problems requires learning new things from people with different perspectives and backgrounds, so I prefer working in cross-functional roles where solving problems requires interacting directly with stakeholders, either as part of a team or individually.Toolbox:Cloud PlatformsAWS, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, Netlify, StackPath, CloudFlareContainersDocker, Kubernetes, Istio, Google Anthos, AWS EKS, AWS ECSCI/CDArgoCD, Terraform, Packer, Jenkins, Ansible, GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket, HelmLanguagesPython, PHP, Bash, SQL, Presto, HTML, CSS, JavaScriptServers & Databases:Nginx, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, BigQuery, AthenaMonitoring & Logging ToolsELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, NewRelic, Collectd, Fluentd, BeatsFrameworksDjango, Serverless, Laravel, Jekyll, Bootstrap, jQuery, Lunr, Boto3