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Akshay B · Systems · Web · DevOps Engineer open to opportunities

Systems. Web. Devops.

  1. 01 Services in go, rust and c++
  2. 02 Docker, kubernetes, ansible and terraform
  3. 03 AWS, jenkins and gitops pipelines
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fig. 01 / reference architecture gpu
compute control plane traffic clients → edge → cluster → data

activity — fig. 01.5 / contribution calendar

A year of work, plotted.

fig. 01.5 / github · last 12 months idle
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about

Break it, then make it boring.

I'm a Computer Science student at Govt. Model Engineering College, Kochi — and most of what I know came from outside the syllabus: a DevOps internship at Elevate Labs, a homelab that keeps teaching me about failure, and six open-source projects I got tired of doing by hand.

Off the clock I play football, play (and listen to) music, and rebuild my Neovim setup more often than any reasonable person would.

⌖ Kochi, IN ⧗ IST · UTC+05:30 ▸ open to opportunities

developer snapshot

  • Learning Rust, Go and Zig the hands-on way.
  • A homelab that keeps teaching me about failure.
  • Music and football off the clock.
  • IBM Skills Build · Cyber Quest · FOSS HACK.

selected work — 06 builds

Projects and Contributions

01 / sdk idle
sdk

Fingerprint Engine

Browser fingerprinting SDK with a WASM core written in Zig — 102 signals, SHA-256 hashing, similarity scoring plus risk and entropy analysis, all in the browser.

  • zig
  • webassembly
  • typescript
  • security
view on github ↗
02 / waf core idle
waf core

Nexus Core

Rust data plane and control plane for the NexusWAF web application firewall — Axum reverse proxy, layered request pipeline, REST/gRPC operator APIs and Prometheus metrics. Authored the gateway, control plane, lexer, rate limiter and load balancer.

  • rust
  • axum
  • grpc
  • prometheus
view on github ↗
03 / cli + tui idle
cli + tui

Vault

Local-first secrets manager as a CLI + TUI. AES-256-GCM encryption with Argon2-key derivation, pluggable Postgres/SQLite storage, backup and sync across machines.

  • go
  • postgresql
  • sqlite
  • cryptography
view on github ↗
04 / platform idle
platform

Expense Auditor

Policy-first, AI-assisted expense auditing: OCR receipt ingestion, automated claim review, asynchronous job processing and cloud storage for every receipt.

  • typescript
  • react
  • redis
  • terraform
view on github ↗
05 / oss contribution idle
oss contribution

Better Auth RS

Rust backend implementation of Better Auth — three merged pull requests: fixed the device authorization verification flow with integration tests, authored the plugin documentation, and updated API key tests for the v1 schema rewrite.

  • rust
  • axum
  • oauth
  • oidc
view on github ↗
06 / infrastructure idle
infrastructure

Ansible K8s

Automated deployment of high-availability Kubernetes clusters with kube-vip and MetalLB, driven by idempotent Ansible playbooks you can re-run safely.

  • ansible
  • kubernetes
  • kube-vip
  • metallb
view on github ↗

capabilities — three lanes

One road, three lanes.

Deep in one, fluent in all three — which is usually the difference between a system that ships and a system that argues with itself.

01

Systems

Correct under load and boring to operate — written close to the metal, tested by breaking it first.

  • go · rust · c++
  • postgres · sqlite
  • cli + tui tools
  • encryption basics
  • linux internals
02

Web

Interfaces that respect the machine they run on — fast first paint, no accidental jank.

  • astro · react
  • typescript
  • webgpu · tsl
  • design systems
  • core web vitals
03

DevOps

Small batches, reversible changes, and pipelines that make Friday deploys uneventful.

  • docker · kubernetes
  • ansible · terraform
  • jenkins · gitops
  • aws
  • istio canary

experience — the receipts

One internship, and a lot of built things.

2026 · 1 month

DevOps Intern

Elevate Labs

Architected a modular DevOps environment: Istio-based canary deployments and a GitOps pipeline for automated microservice deploys — traffic shifted in granular, reversible steps.

  • aws
  • docker
  • kubernetes
  • jenkins
  • ansible
  • terraform
2026 · ongoing

Open-source builds

independent

The six projects above — a Zig/WASM fingerprinting SDK, a Rust WAF data plane, a Go secrets manager, a TypeScript audit platform, merged better-auth-rs contributions and HA Kubernetes automation. All public.

  • zig
  • rust
  • go
  • typescript
2025 — present

Infrastructure automation

self-hosted lab

Built HA Kubernetes clusters with kube-vip and MetalLB via Ansible, then kept breaking them on purpose — the homelab where every playbook in the resume got rehearsed.

  • ansible
  • kubernetes
  • linux
  • networking

proof — straight from the shell

The terminal doesn't exaggerate.

A typical five minutes: check the fleet, plan the change, ship it anyway.

akshay b@kochi — zsh — 92×24 tty1 
 
 
  
 
 
contact
 
Let's build something that stays up.
 

Open to internships and new-grad roles in systems, platform and frontend work —
            from Kochi to anywhere. Send the messy problem, not the job description.

 akshayb.mec@gmail.com
 
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