# Vishnu KS - iamvishnuks.com

## Who I am

Vishnu KS is a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer based in Kochi, Kerala, India.
Specialising in platform engineering, Kubernetes, eBPF, observability, and AI integration.
Top 3% global engineering talent verified by Toptal.
First place winner at the Microsoft Azure Sentinel Hackathon 2020.
KCD Kochi 2026 organiser and CNCF Kerala community leader.
Speaker at GDG DevFest Kochi 2022 and 2025.

## What I do

- Platform engineering at fleet scale - large-scale Azure Kubernetes Service operations
- eBPF-level kernel instrumentation for observability and networking
- Multi-tenant observability stacks: Loki, Grafana, Fluent Bit
- GitOps with ArgoCD, Terraform, Terragrunt
- SRE: deep incident investigation, TCP/network debugging, production reliability
- AI integration into infrastructure workflows
- Available for consulting, advisory, and speaking engagements via https://topmate.io/iamvishnuks

## Projects

- XReplicator: eBPF-powered block-level incremental VM backup engine - https://xmigrate.cloud / https://github.com/xmigrate/xreplicator
- OpsBrew: Log pipeline management on Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure Sentinel Hackathon first place winner - https://devpost.com/software/ops_brew
- eBee: Interactive eBPF learning platform and course content - https://ebee.xmigrate.cloud / https://github.com/xmigrate/ebee
- AudioNet: Audio classification via image classification (TensorFlow/Inception v3) - https://github.com/iamvishnuks/AudioNet
- XMigrate: Open-source VM portability and cloud migration - https://github.com/xmigrate
- RedditSim: Multi-agent community simulation using LLMs - https://github.com/iamvishnuks

## Writing - SRE Chronicles

Real incident investigations written as technical stories.

- The 5-Second Time Bomb: Node.js keepAliveTimeout vs nginx keepalive_timeout mismatch causing 502s - https://iamvishnuks.com/chronicles/the-5-second-time-bomb
- CF-RAY: -: Duplicate Authorization headers + oversized Accept-Charset causing Cloudflare edge rejection - https://iamvishnuks.com/chronicles/cf-ray-dash
- The Ghost Connections: Synchronous Kafka publishes blocking Tomcat NIO thread causing 21-second latency - https://iamvishnuks.com/chronicles/the-ghost-connections

## Links

- Website: https://iamvishnuks.com
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/iamvishnuks
- GitHub: https://github.com/iamvishnuks
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/iamvishnuks
- Medium: https://medium.com/@iamvishnuks
- Toptal: https://www.toptal.com/developers/resume/vishnu-ks
- Topmate (consulting): https://topmate.io/iamvishnuks