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Siddh Mistry
OPERATOR PROFILE — BPL-AUTHOR-001

Siddh Mistry

Systems Engineer & Technical Writer

I design and document infrastructure the way engineers draft machines — precisely, and built to be read by the next person who has to maintain it. This blog is my running spec sheet for Linux systems, containers, networks, and the automation that holds them together.

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Experience

Senior Systems Engineer

— Independent / Consulting
2023 — Present

Designing resilient infrastructure and writing the documentation that keeps it maintainable — Kubernetes platforms, observability stacks, and internal developer tooling.

Platform Engineer

— Cloud Infrastructure Team
2020 — 2023

Built and operated multi-region Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and the automation layer that let application teams ship without touching Terraform.

Site Reliability Engineer

— SaaS Infrastructure Team
2018 — 2020

Owned on-call rotation, incident response, and capacity planning for a distributed systems handling production traffic at scale.

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Skills Matrix

Systems

Linux Internals Kernel Tuning Bash/POSIX Systemd

Infrastructure

Kubernetes Docker Terraform Ansible

Cloud

AWS GCP Cloudflare Self-hosted / Homelab

Languages

Go Python TypeScript Bash

Security

Network Hardening SSO/IAM Threat Modeling
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Education

B.Tech, Computer Engineering

University Institute of Technology · 2014 — 2018

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Certifications

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) 2023
AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate 2022
LFCS — Linux Foundation Certified Sysadmin 2021
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Achievements

  • Reduced platform incident MTTR by 62% through structured runbooks and alert tuning
  • Migrated a 40-service monolith-adjacent stack to Kubernetes with zero customer-facing downtime
  • Built an internal developer platform adopted by 12 engineering teams
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Projects

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Favorite Technologies

Kubernetes Go ZFS Terraform Caddy Grafana NixOS Tailscale
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Recent Articles

Latest documents authored.