About

Ritesh Kumar Agrahari

Senior Platform Engineer with 11+ years building cloud infrastructure, DevOps platforms, and distributed systems across four countries. Currently Senior Member of Technical Staff at Oracle, working on AI Data Platform (AIDP) and OCI Data Catalog.

I write about the real engineering problems that come with operating infrastructure at scale — Terraform testing, GitOps, Kubernetes, and increasingly, how AI is changing the way platform teams work.

Previously the first technical hire at AELER Technologies in Switzerland, a technology consultant at PALO-IT Singapore, and a DevOps engineer at British Telecom. I enjoy the complexity of cloud systems and the challenge of making them simple for the teams that depend on them.

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Ritesh Kumar Agrahari
📍 Bangalore, India
Nov 2023 — Present
Bangalore, India
Oracle Current
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Building and operating two flagship Oracle Cloud products — AI Data Platform (AIDP) and OCI Data Catalog (DCAT). Responsible for platform engineering, infrastructure automation, and DevOps practices across both products.
OCI Terraform Kubernetes AI Data Platform GitOps ArgoCD
2021 — 2023
Switzerland
AELER Technologies
First Technical Hire · Platform Engineering
Joined as the first technical hire at a deep-tech startup building next-generation shipping containers. Built the entire cloud and DevOps foundation from scratch — infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and platform tooling.
AWS Terraform Kubernetes Platform Engineering Startup
2018 — 2021
Singapore
PALO-IT
DevOps / Platform Engineer · Technology Consultant
Global technology innovation consultancy. Delivered DevOps transformation and cloud platform engineering across multiple client engagements in Singapore and the APAC region.
Azure Azure DevOps Docker Kubernetes Consulting
2016 — 2018
United Kingdom
British Telecom
DevOps Engineer
DevOps and platform engineering at one of Europe's largest telecommunications companies. Worked on large-scale CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation for enterprise systems.
CI/CD Linux Automation Enterprise
2013 — 2016
India
Accenture / Cisco
Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer
Started career in cloud infrastructure and systems engineering. Worked across Accenture's delivery teams on Cisco infrastructure projects, building foundational skills in cloud, networking, and systems operations.
Cloud Networking Infrastructure Cisco
Infrastructure & Cloud
Terraform OCI AWS Azure GCP Multicloud
Containers & Orchestration
Kubernetes Helm Docker ArgoCD GitOps
CI/CD & DevOps
GitHub Actions Jenkins Azure DevOps GitLab CI ArgoCD
Languages & Scripting
Bash / Shell Python Go HCL YAML
Observability
Prometheus Grafana ELK Stack Datadog
Emerging
AI/ML Ops RAG LLM Integration Vector DBs