Saurabh Hirani
Principal SRE at One2N
Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolSaurabh Hirani is a Principal SRE with 14 years of experience designing and automating infrastructure, tooling, and observability for startups and large enterprises. He combines hands-on engineering in Python and Go with pragmatic infra-as-code practices (Terraform, AWS) to build reliable, secure systems and clean up messy deployments—even if it means rewriting his own work. At Last9 and Autodesk he led SRE/DevOps initiatives, drove monitoring and alerting strategies, and built internal tools for security checks, chaos engineering, and incident automation. An active open-source contributor, he has improved notable projects like cloud-nuke (cloud resource cleanup) and go-httpbin with new features and robust testing. A consistent mentor and speaker, he trains junior engineers and shares learnings via writing and conference talks. Based in Karnataka, India, he pairs a relentless curiosity for new tools with a disciplined focus on practical, production-ready outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Vidyakunj High schoolB.E. Computer Engineering, B.E. Computer Engineering at Dharmsinh Desai University
English, Hindi, Gujarati
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Github Skills (26)
api-rest10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
command-line-interface10
http10
resource-management10
go10
aws10
command-line10
golang10
rest-api10
cli10
base64-encoding9
cloud-infrastructure9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
gruntwork-io/cloud-nuke
Jul 2019 - Jun 2020
A tool for cleaning up your cloud accounts by nuking (deleting) all resources within it
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:28 commits, 10 PRs, 140 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Saurabh primarily contributed to the `cloud-nuke` project by adding new features and enhancing existing ones related to resource type filtering and listing. They implemented options for specifying resource types, listing available types, and validating inputs. Additionally, they modified the codebase to integrate these features, including adding new functions for checking resource validity and determining whether to include a resource in the deletion process. The changes involved modifications to the core logic for retrieving and processing AWS resources, along with updates to command-line interface components. Furthermore, the user introduced and refined testing strategies for the new features.
cleaninggcpnukingcloudamazon-web-services
mccutchen/go-httpbin
Mar 2019 - Jul 2019
A reasonably complete and well-tested golang port of httpbin, with zero dependencies outside the go stdlib.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 28 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Saurabh primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the `go-httpbin` project, a Go-based HTTP testing tool. Their work included adding support for HTTPS configuration by introducing flags for certificate and key files and environment variable overrides. They also implemented new features, such as UUID generation and `/uuid` endpoint, and integrated error handling for ListenAndServe operations. Furthermore, the user added base64 encoding/decoding support by introducing new endpoints and modifying the project's assets and index file.
golangdependencieswell-testedzerotesting
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