# Balman Rawat URL: https://balmanrawat.com.np ## Human URL: https://balmanrawat.com.np Portfolio of Balman Rawat, Senior DevOps Engineer focused on AWS, Kubernetes, platform automation, observability, and cloud infrastructure. # Human code is the mind, infrastructure is the body and the mind is only as powerful as the body. [Download CV](/Balman-Rawat-CV.pdf) ![banner](/_astro/banner.BMwzPDc-_Z17jISl.webp) ## Skills ![Amazon AWS](https://img.shields.io/badge/aws-aws-orange?logo=amazonaws&style=flat-square&logoColor=white)![Kubernetes](https://img.shields.io/badge/k8s-kubernetes-blue?logo=kubernetes&logoColor=white&style=flat-square)![Linux](https://img.shields.io/badge/Linux-Linux-blueviolet?logo=linux&logoColor=white&style=flat-square)![ArgoCD](https://img.shields.io/badge/Argo-Argo-orange?logo=argo&logoColor=white&style=flat-square)![Helm](https://img.shields.io/badge/Helm-Helm-blue?logo=helm&logoColor=white&style=flat-square)![Grafana](https://img.shields.io/badge/Grafana-Grafana-red?logo=grafana&logoColor=white&style=flat-square)![Prometheus](https://img.shields.io/badge/Prometheus-Prometheus-orange?logo=prometheus&logoColor=white&style=flat-square)![Terraform](https://img.shields.io/badge/terraform-terraform-blue?logo=terraform&logoColor=white&style=flat-square)![Serverless](https://img.shields.io/badge/serverless-framework-red?logo=serverless&logoColor=white&style=flat-square)![Ansible](https://img.shields.io/badge/Ansible-Ansible-brightgreen?logo=ansible&logoColor=white&style=flat-square)![Amazon EC2](https://img.shields.io/badge/EC2-EC2-yellow?logo=amazonec2&style=flat-square&logoColor=white)![Amazon EKS](https://img.shields.io/badge/EKS-Amazon%20EKS-orange?logo=amazonec2&style=flat-square&logoColor=white)![Amazon ECS](https://img.shields.io/badge/ECS-ECS-important?logo=amazonecs&style=flat-square&logoColor=white)![Amazon API Gateway](https://img.shields.io/badge/APIGW-API%20Gateway-brightgreen?logo=amazonapigateway&style=flat-square&logoColor=white)![AWS Lambda](https://img.shields.io/badge/aws-aws%20lambda-orange?logo=awslambda&style=flat-square&logoColor=white)![Amazon DynamoDB](https://img.shields.io/badge/DynamoDB-DynamoDB-blue?logo=amazondynamodb&style=flat-square&logoColor=white)![Amazon CloudWatch](https://img.shields.io/badge/CloudWatch-AWS%20CloudWatch-blue?logo=amazoncloudwatch&style=flat-square&logoColor=white)![Amazon RDS](https://img.shields.io/badge/RDS-RDS-lightgrey?logo=amazonrds&style=flat-square&logoColor=white)![Nginx](https://img.shields.io/badge/nginx-nginx-brightgreen?logo=nginx&logoColor=white&style=flat-square)![Vagrant](https://img.shields.io/badge/vagrant-vagrant-blue?logo=vagrant&logoColor=white&style=flat-square)![Docker](https://img.shields.io/badge/-Docker-46a2f1?style=flat-square&logo=docker&logoColor=white)![ElasticSearch](https://img.shields.io/badge/elasticsearch-elasticsearch-brightgreen?logo=elasticsearch&logoColor=white)![GitHub Actions](https://img.shields.io/badge/-Github_Actions-2088FF?style=flat-square&logo=github-actions&logoColor=white)![Git](https://img.shields.io/badge/-Git-F05032?style=flat-square&logo=git&logoColor=white)![Prettier](https://img.shields.io/badge/-Prettier-F7B93E?style=flat-square&logo=prettier&logoColor=white)![MongoDB](https://img.shields.io/badge/-MongoDB-13aa52?style=flat-square&logo=mongodb&logoColor=white)![Postgres](https://img.shields.io/badge/Postgres-Postgres-pink?logo=postgresql&style=flat-square&logoColor=white)![Golang](https://img.shields.io/badge/Golang-Golang-blue?logo=go&style=flat-square&logoColor=white)![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/Python-Python-brightgreen?logo=python&style=flat-square&logoColor=white)![Node.js](https://img.shields.io/badge/-Nodejs-43853d?style=flat-square&logo=Node.js&logoColor=white)![SonarQube](https://img.shields.io/badge/SonarQube-SonarQube-brightgreen?logo=sonarqube&style=flat-square&logoColor=white) Cloud and platform Kubernetes and containers Automation, observability, and delivery [View Skills](/skills) ## Certifications [ ![Kubestronaut](/images/certifications/kubestronaut.png) ### Kubestronaut Cloud Native Computing Foundation ](https://www.credly.com/badges/31bb1576-00a0-4f13-86ea-c0cd736f1898/public_url)[ ![Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist](/images/certifications/cks.png) ### Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist Cloud Native Computing Foundation ](https://www.credly.com/badges/e2c193b2-8681-4ed2-ad38-5a714c2e5d80/public_url)[ ![Certified Kubernetes Administrator](/images/certifications/cka.png) ### Certified Kubernetes Administrator Cloud Native Computing Foundation ](https://www.credly.com/badges/9780a1f4-f0a8-4c4c-a7ce-982c9f6e05b1/public_url)[ ![Certified Kubernetes Application Developer](/images/certifications/ckad.png) ### Certified Kubernetes Application Developer Cloud Native Computing Foundation ](https://www.credly.com/badges/28e75fd3-0b6c-43ac-a555-d690c73226bd/public_url)[ ![Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate](/images/certifications/kcna.png) ### Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate Cloud Native Computing Foundation ](https://www.credly.com/badges/c58c8b53-b010-439c-9b03-c9a83a84dd4f/public_url)[ ![Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate](/images/certifications/kcsa.png) ### Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate Cloud Native Computing Foundation ](https://www.credly.com/badges/814fa670-715f-4ff4-8004-1051c105cb8f/public_url)[Expired ![AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional](/images/certifications/aws-devops-engineer-professional.png) ### AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Amazon Web Services ](https://www.credly.com/badges/ded0b0c1-69a9-4509-8b86-5d7265187543/public_url) [View Certifications](/certifications) ## Community [ ### Talks ](/community-involvement#talks)[ ### Projects ](/community-involvement#projects)[ ### Teaching ](/community-involvement#teaching) [View Community](/community-involvement) --- ## Balman Rawat URL: https://balmanrawat.com.np/about Senior DevOps Engineer focused on AWS, Kubernetes, automation, and reliability. ## Balman Rawat I am a tech enthusiast, active learner, and Senior DevOps Engineer based in Bhaktapur, Nepal. My work focuses on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, automation, observability, CI/CD, and helping engineering teams run reliable production systems. ### Career focus - AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure. - Platform automation with Golang, Bash, Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, and Ansible. - Observability, incident response, security, and cost optimization. - Teaching, community talks, technical writing, and open-source DevOps support. I also enjoy exploring diverse subjects outside engineering, including economy, history, geography, science, and spirituality. --- ## Blogs URL: https://balmanrawat.com.np/blog Technical writing, notes, and external articles by Balman Rawat. # Blogs ## Latest Posts [ ### Setting up elasticsearch with Operator Pattern ElasticSearch H/A setup using ECK operator in EKS ](https://blog.balmanrawat.com.np/setting-up-elasticsearch-with-operator-pattern)[ ### EC2 Autoscaling with Custom Metrics Autoscaling EC2 Instances based on message backlog in SQS Queue ](https://blog.balmanrawat.com.np/ec2-autoscaling-with-custom-metrics)[ ### AWS Secrets Manager in Kubernetes Sync your AWS Secret from Secrets Manager as a Kubernetes service account ](https://blog.balmanrawat.com.np/aws-secrets-manger-in-kubernetes)[ ### Helm Cheat Sheets My collection of basic Helm commands ](https://blog.balmanrawat.com.np/helm-cheatsheet)[ ### Managing CloudFormation at Scale Compose your CFN stacks using cfn-compose ](https://blog.balmanrawat.com.np/managing-cloudformation-stacks-at-scale-with-cfn-compose)[ ### CloudFormation in a Nutshell From beginner to advanced CloudFormation ](https://blog.balmanrawat.com.np/cloudformation-in-a-nutshell)[ ### Setup Terraform Backend Setting up Terraform backend using AWS S3 ](https://blog.balmanrawat.com.np/terraform-s3-backend) --- ## Certifications URL: https://balmanrawat.com.np/certifications Professional certifications held by Balman Rawat. # Certifications [ ![Kubestronaut](/images/certifications/kubestronaut.png) Cloud Native Computing Foundation ## Kubestronaut CKA CKAD CKS KCNA KCSA View credential ](https://www.credly.com/badges/31bb1576-00a0-4f13-86ea-c0cd736f1898/public_url)[ ![Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist](/images/certifications/cks.png) Cloud Native Computing Foundation ## Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist cluster hardening system hardening supply chain security monitoring runtime security View credential ](https://www.credly.com/badges/e2c193b2-8681-4ed2-ad38-5a714c2e5d80/public_url)[ ![Certified Kubernetes Administrator](/images/certifications/cka.png) Cloud Native Computing Foundation ## Certified Kubernetes Administrator cluster operations networking security storage troubleshooting View credential ](https://www.credly.com/badges/9780a1f4-f0a8-4c4c-a7ce-982c9f6e05b1/public_url)[ ![Certified Kubernetes Application Developer](/images/certifications/ckad.png) Cloud Native Computing Foundation ## Certified Kubernetes Application Developer workloads configuration services storage troubleshooting View credential ](https://www.credly.com/badges/28e75fd3-0b6c-43ac-a555-d690c73226bd/public_url)[ ![Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate](/images/certifications/kcna.png) Cloud Native Computing Foundation ## Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate kubernetes fundamentals cloud native architecture observability networking application delivery View credential ](https://www.credly.com/badges/c58c8b53-b010-439c-9b03-c9a83a84dd4f/public_url)[ ![Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate](/images/certifications/kcsa.png) Cloud Native Computing Foundation ## Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate cloud native security kubernetes security compliance artifact security workload & runtime security View credential ](https://www.credly.com/badges/814fa670-715f-4ff4-8004-1051c105cb8f/public_url)[Expired ![AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional](/images/certifications/aws-devops-engineer-professional.png) Amazon Web Services ## AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional automation CI/CD monitoring security resilience View credential ](https://www.credly.com/badges/ded0b0c1-69a9-4509-8b86-5d7265187543/public_url) --- ## Community URL: https://balmanrawat.com.np/community-involvement Talks, projects, teaching, and writing by Balman Rawat. # Community ## Talks AWS User Group Nepal ### Managing CloudFormation Stacks at Scale CloudFormation stacks treated as coordinated systems for microservices and immutable infrastructure. A practical look at CloudFormation limitations, dependency design, and parallel stack creation/destruction. [View slides](https://slides.com/rbalman/managing-cloudformation-at-scale) [LinkedIn post](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rbalman_thank-you-aws-user-group-nepal-looking-forward-share-7056085390943748096-RORL?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABk8CpsBfb3FfDjqQX3Dw1tVK85v4vi8SZU) DevOps Kathmandu ### Container Internals A visual and hands-on dive into the Linux primitives behind containers. Live demo around chroot, namespaces, cgroups, and Linux security modules. [View slides](https://slides.com/rbalman/container-internals) [LinkedIn post](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7188741371644567552/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABk8CpsBfb3FfDjqQX3Dw1tVK85v4vi8SZU) CNCF Kathmandu ### Deploying the career in a cloud native way Remote work and career lessons from navigating DevOps work globally. Practical strategies for landing, growing, and thriving in remote cloud native roles. [View slides](https://slides.com/rbalman/remote-work) [LinkedIn post](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cncf-kathmandu_speaker-announcement-were-excited-to-activity-7340981385496530944-cGG4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABk8CpsBfb3FfDjqQX3Dw1tVK85v4vi8SZU) ## Projects [ ### Compose your CloudFormation stacks like docker compose Manage CloudFormation stacks at scale with a compose-style workflow. ![Stars](https://img.shields.io/badge/stars-42-blue?style=flat-square&labelColor=343b41)![Forks](https://img.shields.io/badge/forks-11-blue?style=flat-square&labelColor=343b41)![Issues](https://img.shields.io/badge/issues-11%20open-orange?style=flat-square&labelColor=343b41)![Pull Requests](https://img.shields.io/badge/pull%20requests-2%20open-orange?style=flat-square&labelColor=343b41) ](https://github.com/rbalman/cfn-compose)[ ### Bare minimal shell based container runtime built for fun A tiny shell runtime for learning container internals by building from primitives. ![Stars](https://img.shields.io/badge/stars-3-blue?style=flat-square&labelColor=343b41)![Forks](https://img.shields.io/badge/forks-2-blue?style=flat-square&labelColor=343b41)![Issues](https://img.shields.io/badge/issues-1%20open-orange?style=flat-square&labelColor=343b41)![Pull Requests](https://img.shields.io/badge/pull%20requests-1%20open-orange?style=flat-square&labelColor=343b41) ](https://github.com/rbalman/ship)[ ### Dump the CloudFormation stacks dependency as a JSON file A helper for inspecting CloudFormation stack dependencies in JSON form. ![Stars](https://img.shields.io/badge/stars-8-blue?style=flat-square&labelColor=343b41)![Forks](https://img.shields.io/badge/forks-5-blue?style=flat-square&labelColor=343b41)![Issues](https://img.shields.io/badge/issues-1%20open-orange?style=flat-square&labelColor=343b41)![Pull Requests](https://img.shields.io/badge/pull%20requests-1%20open-orange?style=flat-square&labelColor=343b41) ](https://github.com/rbalman/cfn-dump)[ ### See WiFi password from CLI A command-line utility for reading saved WiFi passwords. ![Stars](https://img.shields.io/badge/stars-8-blue?style=flat-square&labelColor=343b41)![Forks](https://img.shields.io/badge/forks-2-blue?style=flat-square&labelColor=343b41)![Issues](https://img.shields.io/badge/issues-0%20open-orange?style=flat-square&labelColor=343b41)![Pull Requests](https://img.shields.io/badge/pull%20requests-0%20open-orange?style=flat-square&labelColor=343b41) ](https://github.com/rbalman/wifipass) ## Community Involvement [ ### Open-Source Captable Provided DevOps support for developer experience. ![Stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/captableinc/captable?style=flat-square&labelColor=343b41)![Forks](https://img.shields.io/github/forks/captableinc/captable?style=flat-square&labelColor=343b41) ](https://github.com/captableinc/captable) ## Teaching Conducted a two-month DevOps training class with TechAxis Nepal for fresh graduates, and regularly supported engineering teams through DevOps sessions, runbooks, PR reviews, release coordination, and platform documentation. --- ## CV URL: https://balmanrawat.com.np/cv Download or open Balman Rawat's CV. # CV ## Download [Download the PDF CV](/Balman-Rawat-CV.pdf) ## Public document [Open the Google Docs CV](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rpJN8y95EkwVQFMaNILTG78iKiMFSaJHUL9mai5GBvI/edit?tab=t.0) ## Summary Senior DevOps Engineer based in Bhaktapur, Nepal, with 10+ years of experience across AWS, Kubernetes, platform automation, Linux, observability, CI/CD, security, and production infrastructure operations. --- ## Experience URL: https://balmanrawat.com.np/experience Professional experience across DevOps, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and software delivery. # Experience ![Quantstamp logo](https://dubiw3zgo51jg.cloudfront.net/Quantstamp-Favicon.png) [Quantstamp](https://quantstamp.com/) Senior DevOps Engineer 2024 - Present - Owned end-to-end observability across logs, metrics, traces, alerts, incidents, and on-call workflows using Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL, Datadog, CloudWatch, Opsgenie, and Slack. - Maintained multi-region AWS infrastructure with Terraform, EKS, RDS, Route53, load balancers, Kubernetes controllers, and production cluster upgrades. - Improved delivery and developer operations through GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Helm, Terraform workflows, release coordination, access setup, PR reviews, and CI/CD troubleshooting. - Reduced infrastructure cost with budget reviews, savings plans, spot instances, Karpenter scaling, tagging, billing alerts, retention policies, and backup hygiene. - Supported zero-knowledge rollup infrastructure including sequencers, replicas, Ethereum/Sepolia nodes, RPC load balancers, block explorers, WAF, Shield, SSO, IAM, and secrets management. ![Proxify logo](https://proxify.io/images/logo.svg) [Proxify](https://proxify.io/) Senior DevOps Engineer Contractor 2023 - 2024 - Managed production AWS services across Lambda, ECS, Fargate, EKS, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CloudFront, S3, Cognito, ALB, VPC, RDS, ECR, Route53, CloudWatch, EC2, DynamoDB, and Step Functions. - Built reproducible infrastructure with AWS CDK in TypeScript, keeping cost, security, scalability, and repeatable delivery in view. - Ran Kubernetes workloads on EKS, CI/CD pipelines across GitHub Actions, GitLab Pipelines, and AWS developer tools. - Improved operations with observability patterns, better logging standards, application metrics, traces, Lambda automation, and internal Slack chatbot tools. - Reviewed architecture and security needs with engineering teams, then turned retrospectives into practical platform improvements. ![CloudFactory logo](https://www.cloudfactory.com/hs-fs/hubfs/cf-logo-blue-transparent%20\(1\).png?width=485&height=87&name=cf-logo-blue-transparent%20\(1\).png) [CloudFactory](https://www.cloudfactory.com/) Senior DevOps Engineer / Tech Lead 2016 - 2023 - Grew from junior DevOps work into senior and tech lead ownership across AWS infrastructure, Linux operations, CI/CD, platform maintenance, and developer experience. - Led platform practices around technical documentation, SOC2 audit support, runbooks, engineering code standards, OKRs, team sessions, and release hygiene. - Designed multi-stage CI/CD systems with canary, rolling, and blue-green deployment strategies using Jenkins, GitHub, CodePipeline, Helm, and related tooling. - Managed observability and incident workflows with New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, PagerDuty, Honeybadger, logs, traces, and infrastructure metrics. - Helped migrate 500+ EC2 application servers and 20+ databases into private AWS VPC environments while building automation for CloudFormation, AMIs, data pipelines, ECS, and developer tooling. ![Upwork logo](https://cdn.simpleicons.org/upwork/6FDA44) [Upwork](https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~019fda20c3945e2e31) Freelancer 2022 - Present - Delivered DevOps technical support for multiple clients, moving quickly across different cloud environments, codebases, and operational expectations. - Designed a complex AWS network with 21 VPCs across three accounts, multiple regions, and separate environments. - Streamlined infrastructure written in CloudFormation and helped teams make deployment workflows easier to operate. - Wrote technical content for Logz.io, translating observability and infrastructure work into practical developer-facing material. Thorangs Pvt. Ltd. ## Thorangs Pvt. Ltd. Co-founder and Project Manager 2017 - 2018 - Co-founded a software company with friends and learned the real-world shape of building a team, a pipeline, and a delivery rhythm from scratch. - Gathered and validated requirements with clients, prepared sales pitches, slides, and documentation for potential customers. - Kept stakeholders informed throughout the project lifecycle while planning, prioritizing, and delegating work inside the team. - Protected team spirit and delivery focus, turning an early-stage company into a deep learning experience in ownership and collaboration. ![Biddhe Pvt. Ltd. logo](https://bidhee.com/uploads/2026-04-10-08-10-35-bidhee-logo.png) [Biddhe Pvt. Ltd.](https://bidhee.com/) Android Developer 2015 - 2016 - Started professional work as an Android Developer and contributed to more than six Android applications in a short period. - Refactored, optimized, secured, and maintained existing applications while adding new features. - Integrated API backends with authentication and authorization flows for mobile applications. - Built prototypes for feasibility and user acceptance testing, then reported progress and feedback to stakeholders. --- ## Skills URL: https://balmanrawat.com.np/skills A visual map of Balman Rawat's cloud, DevOps, Kubernetes, automation, observability, and platform engineering capabilities. # Skills A capability map for the systems I build, operate, debug, automate, secure, and teach. ![Amazon AWS](https://img.shields.io/badge/aws-aws-orange?logo=amazonaws&style=flat-square&logoColor=white)![Kubernetes](https://img.shields.io/badge/k8s-kubernetes-blue?logo=kubernetes&logoColor=white&style=flat-square)![kubeadm](https://img.shields.io/badge/kubeadm-kubernetes-blue?logo=kubernetes&logoColor=white&style=flat-square)![k0s](https://img.shields.io/badge/k0s-kubernetes-326ce5?logo=kubernetes&logoColor=white&style=flat-square)![Talos](https://img.shields.io/badge/Talos-Linux-ff6f00?logo=linux&logoColor=white&style=flat-square)![Linux](https://img.shields.io/badge/Linux-Linux-blueviolet?logo=linux&logoColor=white&style=flat-square)![ArgoCD](https://img.shields.io/badge/Argo-Argo-orange?logo=argo&logoColor=white&style=flat-square)![Helm](https://img.shields.io/badge/Helm-Helm-blue?logo=helm&logoColor=white&style=flat-square)![Grafana](https://img.shields.io/badge/Grafana-Grafana-red?logo=grafana&logoColor=white&style=flat-square)![Grafana 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Operator](https://img.shields.io/badge/Percona-operator-blue?logo=mysql&logoColor=white&style=flat-square)![Amazon EC2](https://img.shields.io/badge/EC2-EC2-yellow?logo=amazonec2&style=flat-square&logoColor=white)![Amazon EKS](https://img.shields.io/badge/EKS-Amazon%20EKS-orange?logo=amazonec2&style=flat-square&logoColor=white)![Amazon ECS](https://img.shields.io/badge/ECS-ECS-important?logo=amazonecs&style=flat-square&logoColor=white)![Amazon API Gateway](https://img.shields.io/badge/APIGW-API%20Gateway-brightgreen?logo=amazonapigateway&style=flat-square&logoColor=white)![AWS Lambda](https://img.shields.io/badge/aws-aws%20lambda-orange?logo=awslambda&style=flat-square&logoColor=white)![Amazon DynamoDB](https://img.shields.io/badge/DynamoDB-DynamoDB-blue?logo=amazondynamodb&style=flat-square&logoColor=white)![Amazon CloudWatch](https://img.shields.io/badge/CloudWatch-AWS%20CloudWatch-blue?logo=amazoncloudwatch&style=flat-square&logoColor=white)![Amazon RDS](https://img.shields.io/badge/RDS-RDS-lightgrey?logo=amazonrds&style=flat-square&logoColor=white)![Nginx](https://img.shields.io/badge/nginx-nginx-brightgreen?logo=nginx&logoColor=white&style=flat-square)![Vagrant](https://img.shields.io/badge/vagrant-vagrant-blue?logo=vagrant&logoColor=white&style=flat-square)![Docker](https://img.shields.io/badge/-Docker-46a2f1?style=flat-square&logo=docker&logoColor=white)![ElasticSearch](https://img.shields.io/badge/elasticsearch-elasticsearch-brightgreen?logo=elasticsearch&logoColor=white)![GitHub 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20+ database migrations K8s cluster operations ## Cloud Platform AWS at production scale EC2 VPC Route53 S3 Lambda ECS EKS RDS CloudFront SQS SNS DynamoDB API Gateway ## Kubernetes clusters, workloads, upgrades EKS kubeadm k0s Talos Helm Argo CD Karpenter operators network policies Docker ECR ## Infrastructure as Code repeatable, reviewed, automated Terraform CloudFormation AWS CDK Serverless Framework Ansible custom AWS SDK tooling ## Delivery Systems CI/CD and GitOps GitHub Actions GitLab Pipelines CodePipeline CodeBuild CodeDeploy Jenkins CircleCI canary blue-green ## Observability logs, metrics, traces, incidents OpenTelemetry Prometheus PromQL Thanos Grafana Grafana Alloy Loki CloudWatch Datadog New Relic PagerDuty Opsgenie ## Security shift-left and cloud controls IAM SSO Secrets Manager 1Password WAF Shield TLS image scanning SonarCloud IaC policy checks ## Data Stores operate, scale, maintain PostgreSQL MySQL Percona Operator DynamoDB DocumentDB MongoDB OpenSearch Redis Memcached RDS ## Automation scripts to platform tools Golang Bash Node.js TypeScript Python AWS SDK Lambda automation Slack apps ## Linux and Networking debugging, hardening, internals Ubuntu Amazon Linux CentOS Nginx VPC subnets load balancers container internals AMIs ## Blockchain Infrastructure EVM compatible rollup operations sequencers replicas Sepolia nodes Ethereum nodes RPC load balancers block explorers ## Data Pipelines analytics and movement Prefect dbt AWS Glue Kinesis Athena Firehose ## Team Enablement platform work that helps people ship runbooks documentation PR reviews release coordination SOC2 support developer tooling --- ## Talks URL: https://balmanrawat.com.np/talks Meetup talks, slides, and community sessions by Balman Rawat. # Talks Infrastructure as Code ## Managing CloudFormation Stacks at Scale 2nd AWS User Group Nepal Meetup A practical session on treating CloudFormation stacks as coordinated systems instead of isolated templates. Designing CloudFormation for microservices, understanding its limits, and creating immutable infrastructure in parallel. [View slides](https://slides.com/rbalman/managing-cloudformation-at-scale) [LinkedIn post](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rbalman_thank-you-aws-user-group-nepal-looking-forward-share-7056085390943748096-RORL?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABk8CpsBfb3FfDjqQX3Dw1tVK85v4vi8SZU) Linux and containers ## Container Internals 34th DevOps Kathmandu Meetup A live, low-level walkthrough of what actually makes a container feel isolated on Linux. A live demo of container building blocks: chroot, namespaces, cgroups, and Linux security modules. [View slides](https://slides.com/rbalman/container-internals) [LinkedIn post](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7188741371644567552/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABk8CpsBfb3FfDjqQX3Dw1tVK85v4vi8SZU) Remote work and career ## Deploying the career in a cloud native way CNCF Kathmandu A career talk about taking DevOps work global while staying practical, employable, and grounded. Experience sharing on global remote roles, career lessons, and practical strategies for growing a DevOps career internationally. [View slides](https://slides.com/rbalman/remote-work) [LinkedIn post](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cncf-kathmandu_speaker-announcement-were-excited-to-activity-7340981385496530944-cGG4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABk8CpsBfb3FfDjqQX3Dw1tVK85v4vi8SZU)