RushabhShahis an open source educator
I build, teach and speak about open source infrastructure. I translated ebpf.io into Hindi, I co-organize meetups in Ahmedabad, and my next talks are at FluxCon in Salt Lake City and two events in Tokyo.
talks at conferences and meetups
countries I have spoken in
RSVPs across the meetups I host
pull requests to open source projects
AWS spend cut in a cloud migration, no downtime
How I got here.
Three years, five teams.
From Laravel to DevOps
Joined Tridhya Tech as a Laravel trainee, then moved to the DevOps team. Built Docker images, Kubernetes workloads and pipelines, passed AZ-900 and AZ-104, and gave my first tech talk to the team.
Building labs at KodeKloud
Built hands-on cloud labs used to teach Azure, AWS and GCP. Gave my first community talk, Grafana 101, in May, represented KodeKloud at the first KubeCon India in December, and started hosting Grafana & Friends Ahmedabad.
Teaching, then fintech
Cut AWS spend 59% and moved a platform to Oracle Cloud with zero downtime. Spent a while as an Azure corporate trainer at Koenig Solutions, and learned that I only want to teach where the learner comes first. Got the Hindi edition of ebpf.io merged. Then joined Orocorp Technologies, a gold-loan platform working with Federal Bank and other banks as lenders, alongside its sister NBFC, Tenmark Capital. My work there sits where infrastructure meets fintech compliance.
Docker Captain, Grafana Champion, a global stage
Selected as a Docker Captain and a Grafana Champion. My talks started getting accepted outside India: a talk at PromCon EU in Munich, then FluxCon in Salt Lake City and two talks in Tokyo. Spoke in Vadodara, and started building courses.
Open source work.
Small contributions, merged upstream. CNCF DevStats score: 178.
Programmes and certifications.
Each one links to the issuer, so you can check it there.
Docker, Inc. · Selected 2026Docker Captain
Docker's community programme for people who teach, write and speak about containers. Selected in 2026.
Grafana Labs · Selected 2026Grafana Champion
Grafana Labs' community programme. I co-organize Grafana & Friends Ahmedabad. Selected in 2026.
Studying for next: CKA, CKS, OTCA. All certifications →
Upcoming talks.
Your Git Repo Is Not a Backup: Kubernetes Disaster Recovery with Flux and Velero
A cluster gets broken on purpose and brought back live with Flux and Velero.
Closing the Ma (間): Filling the Gaps in Kubernetes Visibility with Headlamp
Headlamp plugins that put Flux reconciliation state and OpenCost spend in the same view as the workloads they describe.
A Tag Is a Lie
Approving a container image by tag approves something that can change after you approved it.
30% off every Linux Foundation exam
Sale live · ends October 23The Linux Foundation October cybersecurity sale is live: CKS $267, KCSA $150, every other exam 35% off. Ends October 23. See the codes → My evergreen RUSHABH30 code takes over at 30% when it ends.
Experience.
Five teams in three years: product startups, a learning platform, and enterprise classrooms. Download the résumé.
- Jun 2025 to Present
DevOps Engineer at Orocorp Technologies Private Limited
Orocorp runs a gold-loan platform with Federal Bank and other banks as lenders, alongside its sister NBFC, Tenmark Capital. I work where infrastructure meets fintech compliance: operating Kubernetes workloads with Helm and GitOps via Argo CD; CI/CD on GitHub Actions; IaC with Terraform; observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo and OpenTelemetry; cloud cost optimization and security hardening across the platform.
- Jun 2025 to Jul 2025
Corporate Trainer at Koenig Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Azure corporate trainer at an IT education provider. Delivered live virtual and classroom training on Azure role-based certifications (AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-400) to working IT professionals and enterprise teams across regions.
- Jan 2025 to May 2025
DevOps Engineer at Genuin
Drove a 59% AWS cost reduction; built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines bringing release time to ~10 minutes; led a zero-downtime AWS to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure migration under a fixed deadline; implemented controls for ISO and SOC Type 1 readiness.
- Jul 2024 to Dec 2024
Jr DevOps Engineer at KodeKloud
Built hands-on Azure labs (AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-204, AZ-400) and multi-cloud lab environments on AWS, Azure and GCP. Automated provisioning with Terraform, Ansible and Bash. Represented KodeKloud at KubeCon India 2024.
- Jun 2023 to Jun 2024
Laravel Trainee, then Jr DevOps Engineer at Tridhya Tech Limited
Built and maintained Docker images and Kubernetes workloads, designed CI/CD pipelines on Jenkins and GitHub Actions, provisioned infra with Terraform/Ansible across Azure and AWS. Earned AZ-900 and AZ-104; ran an internal TechTalk on Kubernetes.
Tools I reach for
KubernetesDocker
Helm
Argo CD
Terraform
Ansible
GitHub Actions
AWS
Azure
GCP
OCI
PrometheusGrafanaLoki / Tempo / Mimir
OpenTelemetry
Linux
Bash
Python
GitCI/CDWhere we can meet.
On a stage
I talk about Kubernetes, observability and getting started in open source, at conferences, meetups and colleges. If you run an event, send me the date and the audience.
At a meetup in Ahmedabad
I co-organize Docker Ahmedabad and Grafana & Friends Ahmedabad. Come to the next one. If you want to give your first talk, I will help you with the slides.
On a 20 minute call
Preparing for the CKA, stuck on your first open source pull request, or thinking of starting a meetup in your city? Pick a time. No pitch, no fee.
Courses
I am recording video courses on Kubernetes and observability. Nothing is out yet. Email me and I will tell you when the first one is.
- CKAD first
- KCNA and KCSA next
- Observability with Grafana planned
Notes from the on-call side.
A hostname that never existed took Redis and Postgres down with it
A logging misconfiguration pointed two dozen services at a DNS name nobody ever created. They retried it 46 times a second, burnt 28% of the AWS per-ENI resolver budget, and starved DNS for two services that had never touched Elasticsearch. A postmortem of getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN.
India's first heritage city, Gujarat's first KCD
Prometheus PCA and OpenTelemetry OTCA, reviewed
CKA exam day: PSI bridge, terminal, kubectl aliases
Kubernetes v1.37 (Garhwal): 52 forts, 67 changes, and what actually breaks
What the CKA actually tests in 2026
I’m a DevOps engineer at Orocorp Technologies Private Limited in Ahmedabad. I answer every message, and I’m happiest when someone learns something because of a talk, a post or a pull request I made.
Say hi.
I read every message myself and usually reply within 48 hours. I am in Ahmedabad (IST).
People write to me about
- A talk or a workshopConferences, meetups, college events, internal tech talks.
- Exam prepWhich certification to take first, and how I prepared for mine.
- Open sourceFinding a first issue, Kubernetes docs, Hindi translations.
- Starting a meetupVenue, speakers, getting the first ten people in the room.
What happens next
What is this about?