About
Infrastructure engineering background, operating philosophy, and professional focus areas.
Introduction
Infrastructure engineering focus and operating context.
I'm a Cloud & DevOps Engineer based in Kathmandu, working toward becoming a Cloud Infrastructure Architect and Platform Engineer — someone who designs and operates highly available, secure, and automated production systems, not just someone who holds certifications. Currently at Gorkha Soft Pvt. Ltd., I design and operate virtualized production infrastructure — a 4-node Proxmox environment running 15+ containerized services, backed by centralized monitoring and automated disaster recovery.
My path into infrastructure engineering wasn't a straight line — I started in agricultural science, taught secondary-level science and math, and worked as a field enumerator for Nepal's National Agriculture Census before pivoting into computer systems engineering. That background shaped how I work now: methodical, data-driven, and comfortable building systems from the ground up rather than assuming shortcuts.
Philosophy
I approach infrastructure work as a discipline built on repeatability, security, and visibility — every system I run should be observable, recoverable, and predictable.
I prioritize stable, well-understood production systems over chasing the newest tool. At Gorkha Soft, that means structured backup and disaster-recovery workflows to AWS S3, and deliberate change control across a 4-node Proxmox environment supporting live workloads.
I reduce manual toil wherever it recurs — from CI/CD pipelines built with Jenkins and GitHub Actions to Ansible-based configuration management — so the same task never has to be done by hand twice.
Security is built into the infrastructure layer from the start: Cloudflare WAF, Fail2ban, UFW, SSL/TLS, SSH hardening, and JWT authentication are standard practice across the systems I run, not an afterthought.
I treat monitoring as core infrastructure, not an add-on. Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Alertmanager give me the visibility to catch issues before they become incidents and to make informed capacity decisions.
Current Role
Gorkha Soft Pvt. Ltd. · Jan 2026 – Present · Kathmandu, Nepal
Timeline
Professional milestones, roles, and education.
National College of Engineering, Tribhuvan University
Presented a multi-agent reinforcement learning framework for adaptive, fault-tolerant IoT load balancing, built on NS-3 simulations across five experimental scenarios.
Gorkha Soft Pvt. Ltd.
Design and manage a 4-node Proxmox virtualization environment supporting 15+ Docker containers, centralized monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Alertmanager), automated backup/DR to AWS S3, and security hardening via Cloudflare WAF, UFW, and Fail2ban.
ISMT College
Led hands-on labs in programming, networking, Linux administration, and databases; guided students through firewall configuration, encryption fundamentals, and system troubleshooting.
Adex International
Designed and deployed AWS architectures using EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, and CloudFront, implementing Auto Scaling, load balancing, and AWS Well-Architected Framework practices.
University of Sunderland / ISMT College
Graduated with a 2:1, alongside a funded research project applying multi-agent reinforcement learning to IoT network load balancing.
IronRim, LLC
Built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions to automate build, test, and deployment workflows for a Columbus, OH-based engineering team.
Jamun Tek
Provided technical support and troubleshooting for software, networking, and client-facing systems while maintaining service continuity.
Central Bureau of Statistics, Nepal
Collected and validated field data for Nepal's National Agriculture Census (Rastriya Krishi Gadana 2078), contributing structured datasets used for national agricultural policy planning.
Galkot Secondary School
Taught science and mathematics to secondary-level students, building foundational problem-solving skills before transitioning into technology.
Technologies
I apply these technologies daily across hybrid infrastructure — from Proxmox-virtualized production servers to AWS-based backup and recovery workflows.
Learning
Alongside my day-to-day infrastructure work, I'm deepening my expertise in the areas that matter most as I move toward platform and cloud architecture roles.
Cluster operations, workload orchestration, and GitOps-based deployment workflows, extending beyond Docker Compose.
Writing reusable, production-grade Terraform modules for AWS and Azure provisioning.
Studying how to design self-service infrastructure platforms — golden paths, internal tooling, and developer experience patterns that scale beyond single-team operations.
Direction
My path is toward becoming a technical leader in cloud infrastructure — combining hands-on operational depth with architecture-level thinking.
Short-term: deepen Linux, AWS, and Azure operations while mastering automation and building a public technical portfolio.
Mid-term: grow into a Senior Cloud/Infrastructure Engineer role — leading system design initiatives and mentoring other engineers.
Long-term: become a Cloud Infrastructure Architect, driving scalable platform design and cloud migration strategy.
Toolkit
Day-to-day tools for infrastructure delivery and operations.
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