🚀 Cloud & Platform Engineer | Python • FastAPI • Kubernetes • DevOps

I design and build cloud-native platforms, backend systems, and automation tooling with a focus on scalability, security, and developer productivity.
Currently working on Kubernetes platforms and cloud automation at Oracle.

• 🐍 Backend: Python, FastAPI, REST APIs, Pydantic, Typer
• ☁️ Cloud: OCI, AWS
• 🐳 Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (OKE/OMK), Helm
• ⚙️ DevOps & Platform: GitOps, CI/CD, GitLab, IaC, Cloud Automation
• 🔐 Security & Infra: IAM, Instance Principals, DNS, Load Balancers
• 🧪 Testing: Pytest, E2E Automation, Playwright
• 📦 Datastores: MySQL
• 📐 Design: Microservices, System Design, Cloud Patterns

• Building secure, multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms
• Eliminating secrets with passwordless cloud-native auth
• Designing self-service cloud infrastructure
• Improving production readiness & reliability
• Writing clean, scalable backend services

🔹 Kubernetes Platform Engineering

• Built and extended Kubernetes operators for OCI resources
• Designed GitOps-driven cloud provisioning systems
• Automated node lifecycle, IAM, and DNS workflows

🔹 FastAPI + Python Services

• REST APIs for cloud orchestration and infrastructure control
• CLI tools using Typer for developer productivity

🔹 Cloud Security & Automation

• Implemented passwordless image pulls using OCI Instance Principals
• Automated IAM and policy management for Kubernetes workloads

• Advanced Kubernetes internals
• Cloud security & zero-trust architectures
• Distributed systems design

• Python / FastAPI projects
• Kubernetes operators & tooling
• DevOps & cloud automation tools
• Platform engineering & infra-as-code

• 💼 LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ashishpatel1992
• 🌐 Portfolio: https://ashishpatel.dev
• 🧑‍💻 GitHub: https://github.com/ashishpatel1992

⭐ If you find my work useful, feel free to star or fork my repositories!