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Gaurav Rai

@thinkhattke
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Application Engineer II

India
Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi
About me
I'm a Platform & DevOps engineer specializing in developer experience — Go, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform, and observability tooling like OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and ClickHouse. I build the infra and CLI tools that make teams faster: turning weeks-long manual processes into single commands, standing up observability stacks from scratch, and running Kafka/gRPC pipelines at scale. I also ship full-stack products with TypeScript, Next.js, and Supabase. I like taking messy, repetitive work and making it clean and reliable. Let's build something solid together.... Read more

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I will develop, support and deploy node js server
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Infra as Code
I will set up, troubleshoot, and optimize kubernetes clusters
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Work experience

Loblaw_Companies Limited

Application Engineer

Loblaw Companies Limited • Full-time

Jul 2024 - Present • 2 yrs 2 mos

• Built internal automation tools with Golang, Terraform, and GitLab CI/CD pipelines to reduce manual toil, improve engineering efficiency, and enable reliable, GitOps-driven workflows with ArgoCD. • Developed and maintained observability-focused applications integrated with OpenTelemetry, Fluent Bit, Grafana, and ClickHouse, providing unified logs, metrics, and traces across production environments. • Kubernetes Operator: Designed and built a custom Kubernetes operator and controller in Golang using the Operator SDK to automate lifecycle management of internal platform resources via CRDs and reconciliation loops. • Helped multiple internal teams adopt automated deployment and monitoring workflows using Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and custom tooling, improving release quality and reducing operational review cycles.

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    christiancl

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    Thanks! Good work

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    christiancl

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    Thanks for your hard work.

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    roberto96

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    alexlytle553

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    Did exactly what I asked of him. communicated well! thank you for your service

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    jouin972

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    thinkhattke is a good person

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