Arush Salil
Infrastructure Engineer
Delhi, India
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Top SchoolArush Salil is an Infrastructure Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and optimizing Linux/UNIX systems and cloud-native infrastructure. He has led end-to-end platform initiatives—building Kubernetes fleets on EKS, migrating Elasticsearch at scale, and implementing cost-saving AWS cleanups that shaved six figures from cloud bills. Comfortable across AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Nomad and CI toolchains, he also authors Debian packages and contributes to CNCF projects like Kanister, updating Helm charts and Go code for real-world app-data workflows. As a technical lead he pairs infrastructure architecture with developer experience improvements, from self-hosted runners and ECR pull-through caching to custom FreeBSD-based edge OS imagery. Known for turning operational complexity into repeatable automation, he’s also mentored CKA/CKAD aspirants and built multi-tenant Kubernetes operators integrating Okta and Keycloak. Based in Delhi, he blends pragmatic cost-conscious engineering with active open-source contribution and hands-on coding.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Programming, Specific Applications, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Programming, Specific Applications at Galgotias University
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
163reputation
14kreached
2answers
6questions
Github Skills (27)
kubernetes10
go10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
cloud-native10
devops10
elasticsearch8
elasticsearch-api8
mongodb8
elasticsearchquery8
aws-elasticsearch8
mongodb-database8
amazon-elasticsearch8
mysql8
cassandra8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
kanisterio/kanister
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
An extensible framework for application-level data management on Kubernetes, Kanister is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project and was originally created by the Veeam Kasten team.
Role in this project:
DevOps & Backend Engineer
DevOps & Backend EngineerContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 6 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Arush's primary contributions involved updating various application chart versions (MySQL, Cassandra, Postgres, MongoDB, Couchbase, and Elasticsearch) to their latest releases. This involved modifying helm chart configurations, updating image tags, and changing helm repository URLs and names, primarily focused on transitioning charts to the Bitnami repository. Furthermore, the user addressed compatibility issues and updated related blueprint configurations. The contributions also included updating base image tags and performing minor code adjustments within Go application files.
golangdata-managementdata-protectionoperatorkubernetes
arush-sal/greetd
Aug 2020 - Jul 2024
Mirror of https://git.sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/greetd
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 11 months
greetergreetdgreeter-service
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