Ebin Babu
Senior DevOps & Platform EngineerI'm a Senior DevOps and Platform Engineer based in Trivandrum, Kerala — with 6+ years of experience turning complex, fragile infrastructure into something boring, reliable, and fast.
My work lives at the intersection of Kubernetes, cloud-native architecture, and real-world engineering constraints. I've built AI/ML platforms on AWS EKS, cut cloud costs by 45% through FinOps practices, engineered high-throughput systems handling 6,000 requests per second, and deployed everything from Kafka clusters to PostgreSQL operators on Kubernetes.
I'm a CNCF Ambassador and AWS Community Builder in the Containers category — which means I spend a meaningful chunk of my time giving back to the community that taught me most of what I know. I write, speak at meetups, and co-organise events including KCD Kochi 2026.
When I'm not knee-deep in YAML, I'm probably reading about distributed systems or convincing someone that GitOps is worth the learning curve.
Work Experience
- Architected a production AI/ML Kubernetes platform on AWS EKS serving 10+ data science teams at 99.9% availability.
- Delivered 45% reduction in cloud infrastructure costs through FinOps practices across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Engineered a high-throughput Temporal workflow system validated at 6,000 RPS on Kubernetes.
- Deployed stateful workloads including PostgreSQL (CrunchyDB), Redis cluster, and Kafka on EKS.
- Implemented full GitOps delivery with Argo CD, reducing deployment errors by ~80%.
- Built centralised observability with Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Loki, and OpenTelemetry — cutting incident detection time by ~60%.
- Automated secret management using External Secrets Operator and AWS Secrets Manager.
- Provisioned on-prem Kubernetes clusters with kubeadm and Ansible.
- Managed Linux/RHCE lab infrastructure for 100+ students across multiple training cohorts.
- Automated operations using Bash and Ansible, reducing manual effort across routine lab tasks.
- Contributed to curriculum development for Linux and cloud fundamentals training programmes.
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