every star is a project I've contributed to. hover one. # Rushabh Shah is **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. [Invite me to speak](https://rushabhshah.dev/speaking/)[Read the blog](https://rushabhshah.dev/blog/)[Résumé](https://rushabhshah.dev/assets/rushabh-shah-resume.pdf) Open Source Summit Japan FluxCon North America PromCon EU Open Compliance Summit KubeCon India KCD Gujarat Grafana & Friends Docker Ahmedabad Cloud Native Vadodara Open Source Summit Japan FluxCon North America PromCon EU Open Compliance Summit KubeCon India KCD Gujarat Grafana & Friends Docker Ahmedabad Cloud Native Vadodara 10 talks at conferences and meetups 4 countries I have spoken in 1000+ RSVPs across the meetups I host 40+ pull requests to open source projects 59% AWS spend cut in a cloud migration, no downtime The story so far ## How I got here. Three years, five teams. 2023 ### 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. 2024 ### 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](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/archive/2024/kubecon-cloudnativecon-india/) in December, and started hosting [Grafana & Friends Ahmedabad](https://www.meetup.com/grafana-and-friends-ahmedabad-happy-hour/). KubeCon India 2024 first meetup talk Grafana & Friends 2025 ### 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](https://www.koenig-solutions.com/), 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. ebpf.io/hi-in 59% cost cut fintech compliance 2026 ### 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. Docker Captain Grafana Champion Tokyo × 2 Open source ## Open source work. Small contributions, merged upstream. CNCF DevStats score: 178. MERGED · 2025 ### ebpf.io The whole Hindi edition, so engineers can learn eBPF in Hindi. (https://ebpf.io/hi-in/) MERGED · 2025 ### Helm Docs fix for uninstalling releases with a namespace. (https://github.com/helm/helm-www/pull/1748) MERGED · 2026 ### Docker A Playwright mixin kit for Docker’s sandbox kits. (https://github.com/docker/sbx-kits-contrib/pull/138) 9 IN REVIEW ### Kubernetes Hindi translations of the Kubernetes documentation. (https://github.com/kubernetes/website/pulls?q=author%3Aiamrushabhshahh) Recognition ## Programmes and certifications. Each one links to the issuer, so you can check it there. Docker, Inc. · Selected 2026 ### Docker Captain Docker's community programme for people who teach, write and speak about containers. Selected in 2026. (https://rushabhshah.dev/docker-captain/) Grafana Labs · Selected 2026 ### Grafana Champion Grafana Labs' community programme. I co-organize Grafana & Friends Ahmedabad. Selected in 2026. (https://grafana.com/community/champions-full-list/?pg=community-champions&plcmt=pill-banner#:~:text=Rushabh%20Shah,LinkedIn) [CKAD Certified Kubernetes Application Developer The Linux Foundation · Sep 2026 · verify ↗](https://www.credly.com/badges/403326fb-ec23-479e-a04b-d70dc73428a5)[KCSA Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate The Linux Foundation · Sep 2026 · verify ↗](https://www.credly.com/badges/16538648-bf8b-4dfe-86cb-6f8d279b5742)[KCNA Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate The Linux Foundation · Aug 2026 · verify ↗](https://www.credly.com/badges/fed261d0-7cd0-4ae7-89c1-a7437a4cc964) **AZ-104** Azure Administrator Associate Microsoft **AZ-900** Azure Fundamentals Microsoft Studying for next: CKA, CKS, OTCA. [All certifications →](https://rushabhshah.dev/certs/) On stage ## Upcoming talks. 9 Nov 2026 · FluxCon North America 2026 ### 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. (https://rushabhshah.dev/speaking/#fluxcon-na-2026) 8 Dec 2026 · Open Source Summit Japan 2026 ### 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. (https://rushabhshah.dev/speaking/#oss-japan-2026) 11 Dec 2026 · Open Compliance Summit 2026 ### A Tag Is a Lie Approving a container image by tag approves something that can change after you approved it. (https://rushabhshah.dev/speaking/#open-compliance-summit-2026) **Cities this year** 🇮🇳 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 Ahmedabad · Vadodara · Munich · Salt Lake City · Tokyo [Every talk and the speaker kit](https://rushabhshah.dev/speaking/) GIVING BACK · LINUX FOUNDATION PARTNER CODE ## 30% off every Linux Foundation exam Sale live · ends October 23 The Linux Foundation **October cybersecurity sale** is live: CKS $267, KCSA $150, every other exam 35% off. Ends October 23. [See the codes →](https://rushabhshah.dev/linux-foundation-coupon/#current-sale) My evergreen RUSHABH30 code takes over at 30% when it ends. RUSHABH30 No expiry · exams, courses and bundles [Prices per exam →](https://rushabhshah.dev/linux-foundation-coupon/)[Also: 20% off FinOps certifications](https://rushabhshah.dev/coupons/) Experience ## Experience. Five teams in three years: product startups, a learning platform, and enterprise classrooms. [Download the résumé](https://rushabhshah.dev/assets/rushabh-shah-resume.pdf). - 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 Containers & Orchestration Kubernetes Docker Helm Argo CD IaC & Automation Terraform Ansible GitHub Actions Cloud Platforms AWS Azure GCP OCI Observability Prometheus Grafana Loki / Tempo / Mimir OpenTelemetry Languages & Tooling Linux Bash Python Git CI/CD Connect ## Where 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. [Invite me to speak](https://rushabhshah.dev/speaking/)[Speaker kit](https://rushabhshah.dev/speaker-kit/) ### 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. [Upcoming meetups](https://rushabhshah.dev/speaking/#upcoming) ### 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. [Pick a time](https://calendar.app.google/fFL7eubAdig7KZJo9) ### 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 [Join the course waitlist](mailto:hello@rushabhshah.dev?subject=Course%20waitlist) Writing ## Notes from the on-call side. **incident** Sep 30, 2026 16 min ### 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. (https://rushabhshah.dev/blog/dns-storm-eai-again/) **kubernetes** Sep 1, 2026 19 min ### India's first heritage city, Gujarat's first KCD (https://rushabhshah.dev/blog/kcd-gujarat-2026-ahmedabad-guide/) **kubernetes** Aug 30, 2026 3 min ### Prometheus PCA and OpenTelemetry OTCA, reviewed (https://rushabhshah.dev/blog/pca-otca-review/) **kubernetes** Aug 28, 2026 3 min ### CKA exam day: PSI bridge, terminal, kubectl aliases (https://rushabhshah.dev/blog/cka-exam-day-setup/) **kubernetes** Aug 27, 2026 11 min ### Kubernetes v1.37 (Garhwal): 52 forts, 67 changes, and what actually breaks (https://rushabhshah.dev/blog/kubernetes-v1-37-garhwal/) **kubernetes** Aug 26, 2026 3 min ### What the CKA actually tests in 2026 (https://rushabhshah.dev/blog/cka-exam-guide/) [All posts](https://rushabhshah.dev/blog/)[Today I learned](https://rushabhshah.dev/til/) 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. Contact ## 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 workshop** Conferences, meetups, college events, internal tech talks. - **Exam prep** Which certification to take first, and how I prepared for mine. - **Open source** Finding a first issue, Kubernetes docs, Hindi translations. - **Starting a meetup** Venue, speakers, getting the first ten people in the room. What happens next - I read it myself. No assistant, no auto-reply. - I reply within 48 hours. - If a call helps, we pick a time that suits us both. Or [pick one now](https://calendar.app.google/fFL7eubAdig7KZJo9). What is this about?