Alok Singh
Principal Engineer at Razorpay
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAlok Singh is a Principal Engineer based in Bengaluru with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and backend systems. He has progressed through technical leadership roles at Practo and now Razorpay, blending hands-on development with platform and DevOps expertise. His open-source contributions to prominent Kubernetes projects like kops and kube-prometheus demonstrate practical mastery of cluster operations, monitoring, and secure access patterns such as bastion hosts and service monitoring for Weave Net. Colleagues rely on him for production-grade design, configuration hardening, and pragmatic automation that reduce operational toil. Outside core duties he publishes technical insights on his personal site, reflecting a habit of documenting solutions that bridge engineering and operator perspectives.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Higher secondary education Science, Higher secondary education Science at DAV JVM ShyamaliBachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Engineering at KIIT University
English
Github Skills (21)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
container10
kops10
network-monitoring10
alerts10
system-monitoring10
go10
prometheus10
jsonnet10
kubernetes-pods10
devops10
operator10
load-balancing9
yaml9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kops
Nov 2016 - Nov 2020
Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 23 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alok primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the Kubernetes Operations (kOps) project, specifically focusing on enabling and configuring bastion hosts. Their work included modifying Go code related to cluster creation, validating configurations, and integrating bastion host settings within the cluster topology. They also updated documentation and configuration options related to bastion host setup, load balancing and idle timeouts demonstrating the user's involvement with backend infrastructure configurations.
containersgcphelmlinodeinstallation
prometheus-operator/kube-prometheus
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Use Prometheus to monitor Kubernetes and applications running on Kubernetes
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 16 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Alok focused on integrating Weave Net monitoring into the kube-prometheus setup. Their contributions included creating ServiceMonitors and Prometheus rules to collect and alert on Weave Net metrics. Further work involved refining configurations and examples, adjusting alert thresholds and resolving naming inconsistencies to improve the usability and accuracy of the Weave Net monitoring integration. The modifications showcase expertise in integrating and configuring monitoring tools.
monitorcluster-monitoringalertsdashboardsoperator
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