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  Kumar Damani
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    Updated #results.date \
    #link(results.link)[Logs] for nerds!
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= Basic Info

- email: #link("mailto:me@kumardamani.net")
- blog: #link("https://kumardamani.net")[kumardamani.net]
- git: #link("https://gitlab.com/users/kdam0/projects")[gitlab.com/kdam0]

= Highlights

Established GitOps as a means of auditable, reproducible,
transparent changes by implementing the
#link("https://github.com/akuity/rendered-manifest-pattern/tree/main")[rendered manifests]
pattern with change management for compliant deployments for our Constellation
Management software.

Led enterprise-wide adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC),
standardizing deployment workflows and infrastructure management across
on-prem, and hybrid environments.

Developed and maintained a critical internal-tool
responsible for lab inventory management, configuration,
resource allocation (aka. the
#link("https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/ntm-tridentcom2010.pdf")[Testbed Mapping Problem])
to facilitate hardware test automation.

Implemented a self-service infrastructure model that
significantly improved development, and QA experience in a
microservice architecture.

Supported multi-region, high-volume production systems handling 1B+
requests per day requiring sub-30ms latency, while delivering
reliable, robust deployments.


= Instituions

- 2019 | Hon. Bach. of Science in Computer Science
  w/ focus in Natural Language Processing.
  University of Toronto,
  Toronto, Canada

- 2021 | ITIL 4 Foundation
  Axelos

= Experience

2020-Now
Platform Lead
Kepler Communications
Toronto, Canada
Industry: Space Internet Communications

2019-2020 DevOps Engineer
Illumin (formerly AcuityAds)
Toronto, Canada
Industry: Ad Tech

2016-2017 Full Stack Engineer
Achiga (formerly WebCanada)
Toronto, Canada
Industry: Web Development

= Languages & Technologies

Programming: Python, TypeScript, Go

IaC: Nix, Ansible, Terraform

CI/CD: ArgoCD, Gitlab CI, Github

Containers: Kubernetes, Docker Compose, LXC

Cloud: AWS, Vultr, DigitalOcean

VMs: Proxmox, Vagrant, Openstack

Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB

Logs: VictoriaLogs, ELK, Loki

Web Dev: FastAPI + React, Django, PHP Zend

Mobile: React-Native, Expo

Networking: Arista, Mikrotik, OpenWRT

Security: HashiCorp Vault, Infisical

= Hobbies

Dad, home-labbing, Nix, blogging,
distro-hopping, nba, photography, memes.

= References

Email me with your interests in me and I’ll refer you to
someone who can vouch for me or defame me, depending
on what you want.