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Senior MTS
Oracle · AI Data Platform
Nov 2023 – Present · Bangalore
Senior DevOps Consultant
PALO-IT · Singapore
Sep 2018 – Oct 2023 · 5 yrs
First Technical Hire
AELER Technologies · Switzerland
Jan 2018 – Jul 2018
M.S Software Engineering
NUS Singapore — Global Rank #9
2017 – 2019
Writing 6 articles
Series Terraform Component Testing — 2 Parts New
Part 1 of 2
Stop Shipping Broken Infrastructure
The IaC testing pyramid, what component testing actually means, and two complete working examples using terraform test and Terratest.
May 2026·8 min·Terraform · DevOps
Part 2 of 2
CI/CD, Pitfalls & the AI Frontier
Pipeline architecture, five common pitfalls, and how AI agents and RAG are changing how teams build and maintain Terraform test suites.
May 2026·10 min·AI · Platform Engineering
MCP · AI Agents New
Debugging MCP Servers: The Tooling You Need Before Your Agent Goes to Production
MCP Inspector, MCPJam, FastMCP, OpenTelemetry, Bellwether — the complete debugging toolkit from local development to CI/CD to production. Plus a critical CVE you need to know about right now.
June 2026 11 min · This site
AI · RAG
Semantic RAG vs Graph RAG: Choosing the Right Architecture
Two retrieval strategies, completely different mental models. When vector similarity is enough, when you need graph traversal, and how to combine both in a Hybrid RAG pipeline — with real use cases and a practical decision guide.
June 2026 9 min · This site
Cloud
Time to Expand Multicloud Options
What multicloud actually means, how it differs from hybrid cloud, real business use cases, and why the tools have finally caught up to the strategy.
May 2026 Medium
DevOps
Azure DevOps: Everything You Need To Orchestrate Your DevOps Toolchain
A deep dive into all five Azure DevOps services and why it remains one of the most complete DevOps platforms available for enterprise teams.
Apr 2020 Medium · PALO-IT
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11+ years building cloud infrastructure across four countries.
From consulting at PALO-IT Singapore to the first technical hire at a Swiss deep-tech startup, to building AI data platforms at Oracle. MS in Software Engineering, NUS Singapore.
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