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diff --git a/content/_index.md b/content/_index.md deleted file mode 100644 index d52a325..0000000 --- a/content/_index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,134 +0,0 @@ -# About me -Hi. This is me: -{{< figure src="/kd.jpeg" alt="my pic" width="100" >}} - -My name is Kumar. Some people call me *kd*, or *ku-band-mar*, I'm known for being... - -* an advocate for de-centralization and self-hosting. [Why?](post/self-host) -* a programming purist, and a linguistics enthusiast. -* a recent amateur photographer. See some of my [pics](https://nc.kumardamani.net/apps/memories/a/vSk9IAWVUx2vcqphL9nMnLFmDQBDZWPr). -* 👎 on social-media. I think they lead to dystopia. [Read more](post/self-host#privacy). -* an NLP specialist from UofT. - -# My Active Projects -| | | -| -------------- | --------------- | -| [nixdots](https://gitlab.com/kdam0/dotfiles-nix) | My dotfiles for the Nix ecosystem as started in [this post](post/nixos-p1). | -| [home-lab](https://gitlab.com/kdam0/home-lab) | My Terraform, Ansible repository for self-hosting as described in [this post](post/framework-server). | -| [nccli](https://gitlab.com/kdam0/nccli) | A Docker-ized Golang CLI for CRUD ops for Namecheap's DNS settings. | - -> If you found something above to be useful, consider [sending](#donate) a few coins my way! - ---- - -# Professional Life -*Treat this section as an extension of my resume.* - -## 2020 - now -Currently working as a **DevOps** at [Kepler](https://kepler.space) :satellite:. - -This is mostly a software (infrastructure) dev gig for a start-up, which is a bit new to me -coming from a more traditional DevOps role with a mature company. -There is a ton of specialized *space* -related equipment here that present interesting problems in DevOps. - -I've learned a ton about embedded computers, networking and network automation, -which has opened my world up to all sorts of home projects for which I am very grateful for. -So far, I've been responsible for the following: - -* Establishing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) as standard practice with Ansible. -* Implementing a netboot infrastructure for our development servers - RPis - -using Packer, PXE, Awx (Ansible Tower) to keep them synced, predictable, and up-to-date. -* Built a custom Linux router to support our unique hardware testing requirements -for on-demand subnet generation/teardown for isolated tests. -* Automated our Lab network infrastructure with Ansible. -* Devised a test-automation framework using Django to facilitate reservation, -as well as [HIL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-in-the-loop_simulation) -(Hardware-In-the-Loop) testing to allow us to more reliably, and frequently test our HW. -* Designed and deployed our highly-available Kubernetes cluster to be our software -platform going forward. - -Beyond my work as an Individual Contributor (IC), I've also been responsible for instilling DevOps -*principles* within the team on our journey to maturity. - -## 2019 - 2020 -Worked as a **DevOps Engineer** at [AcuityAds](https://acuityads.com) in Toronto. -The main selling point for me to work here is that Acuity does not use -AWS, GCP or Azure etc. to host its infrastructure, it has its own on-prem 'cloud'. -This presents substantial challenges for us as DevOps Engineers that would normally be handled by a -public cloud provider. - -Apart from this, due to the nature of adtech, we deal with massive amounts of data, which forces -us to be very careful about the types of technologies we use (scale). -Here is a subset of what I've gained experience with during my time: - -* Infrastructure: VMWare, Physical -* Provisioning: Ansible, Terraform, Cobbler -* Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes -* CI/CD: Git, BitBucket, Bamboo (we host the entire Atlassian suite in-house) -* Monitoring: - * TICK (Telegraf, Influxdb, Chronograf, Kapacitor) - * ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), with filebeat and metricbeat beats - * Prometheus - * Grafana - * Nagios, Pagerduty, Pingdom -* Data: MySql, Aerospike, Kafka, HDFS, Druid -* Scripting: Golang, Bash, Python. <em>Some</em> of my work can be on my Gitlab profile: - * Golang: - * a fast, containerized [cron script](https://gitlab.com/kdam0/go-druid-mysql-influx) - that interacts with Druid, MySql, and Influxdb written in Go. - Basic unit testing. - This is a job that powers one of our major alerting dashboards. - * a containerized highly modular [Rest Api](https://gitlab.com/kdam0/devops-api) - that writes to Influxdb. - This is something we run in K8S as a Service to monitor Cronjobs that run in K8S. - * Python: a [script](https://gitlab.com/kdam0/slack-to-teams) to migrate - Slack exports to MS Teams messages. - This is something we used when we gave up on Slack. - * Bash: a small [collection](https://gitlab.com/kdam0/random-shell-helpers) of helper - scripts that I used frequently for random things. - -## 2016 - 2017 -I worked at [Achiga](https://achiga.io) (formerly *WebCanada*) as -part of my [PEY](https://web.cs.toronto.edu/undergraduate/pey) (internship) -program from U of T for 12 months. As part of this, I was involved in: - -* A fast paced Agile environment where I was a Full Stack Developer working with - **PHP (Zend), MySql, and JavaScript**. -* Git + BitBucket + JIRA (basically the whole Atlassian suite), with Vagrant -* The Pipeline team working on day to day features and bugs in the CMS powering thousands of - local hotel sites around the world for Starwood Hotels. -* Debugging and optimizing cronjobs responsible for storing hotel rates in - our database which is critical to hotel revenue. -* Contributing to the Gallery Page (CMS as well as user facing UI). - See [Design Hotels Gallery Page](https://designhotels.com/gallery) - towards the end of my tenure. - -## 2014 - 2016 -I've worked on several other small-buisness type projects involving website designing, -and scripting over the years in between semesters. - ---- - -# Donate -<details> -<summary> Monero (XMR) </summary> -<br> - -``` -42hFshxmNoFZfAkDJTjSx9MUruMHdLTiDTE4efpP7xZTYwHMjwDZ6eJea2EnyBGGr5ab81cAovBxxT6KSvpUY5roUdkP1Qj -``` - -{{< figure src="/xmr.png" alt="xmr wallet qr code" width="100" >}} -</details> - -<details> -<summary> Bitcoin (BTC) </summary> -<br> - -``` -bc1q4em7f7mvl6wkzc8uyq4365td7w5n02uh64z2za -``` - -{{< figure src="/btc.png" alt="btc wallet qr code" width="100" >}} -</details> |