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$ kubectl describe engineer bhushan-rane

apiVersion: v1
kind: Engineer
metadata:
  name: bhushan-rane
  namespace: platform-engineering
  labels:
    location: Pune, India
    brand: "Hacker · Gamer · Musician · Ponderer"
spec:
  role: Senior Platform Engineer @ Ollion
  experience: 11 years total (6 years cloud/infra)
  focus:
    - Kubernetes Platform Engineering
    - Identity & Access Management
    - GitOps & Infrastructure Automation
    - Self-Hosted Infrastructure
  superpowers:
    - Kubestronaut (all 5 CNCF K8s certifications)
    - 4x Google Cloud Professional certifications
    - Bare metal Kubernetes bootstrapper
    - Open source builder
status:
  phase: Employed
  conditions:
    - type: CertificationsValid
      status: "True"
      reason: Kubestronaut + 4xGCP + AWS
    - type: HomelabRunning
      status: "True"
      reason: 30+ components on OKE via ArgoCD
    - type: OpenToOpportunities
      status: "False"
      reason: Hired @ Red Hat — joining May 2026
    - type: ContinuousLearning
      status: "True"
      reason: AlwaysBuilding

Certifications

Kubernetes & Cloud Native — CNCF

Kubestronaut

CKS

CKA

CKAD

KCSA

KCNA


Google Cloud — 4x Professional

GCP Architect

GCP Security

GCP Network

GCP DevOps

GCP ACE


Amazon Web Services

AWS SAA


Highlights

✦  Led 2-year Swiss WealthTech migration (sole engineer) → $200K+ revenue
   Hetzner/Azure → GCP · 15+ GKE clusters · Fleet API · ArgoCD Autopilot
   HA VPN → Dedicated Interconnect @ Equinix Frankfurt (~1ms latency)

✦  Bootstrapped 10-node bare metal Kubernetes cluster at Sugarbox Networks
   Full lifecycle: provisioning · OS config · networking · control plane

✦  Built HealthD — automated incident detection across 200+ edge/CDN nodes
   Python · auto JIRA tickets · 70% MTTR reduction

✦  30+ component homelab on OKE — GitOps managed via ArgoCD + Kustomize
   Zitadel OIDC · zero-trust networking with NetBird · fully self-hosted

✦  Published open-source NetBird Python client on PyPI
   11 resources · 98% test coverage · network visualization

Tech Stack

Kubernetes ArgoCD Terraform Ansible Google Cloud AWS Python Go Prometheus Grafana Helm Linux Docker PostgreSQL Kafka GitHub Actions


Projects

Project Stack Description
NetBird Python Client Python, PyPI Unofficial API client · 11 resources · 98% test coverage · network visualization
AWS Landing Zone Terraform Multi-account, multi-region AWS with secure defaults · led team of 4
AI Cloud Sandbox Provisioner Go, Python, FastAPI, Next.js Multi-cloud sandbox via conversational AI · 6-layer guardrail system
The Self Hosted Engineer K8s, OKE, ArgoCD Homelab guide — Raspberry Pi, Oracle Cloud, NetBird, zero-trust
GCP Security Comply 360 Python, Gen AI, MCP NIST/CIS benchmarking via LLM
CloudPoet Platform Go, Python Personal SaaS — CLI with PKCE OAuth2, RFC 8693 token exchange

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