Amal Zacharia

Senior Platform & Infrastructure Engineer

I build distributed systems that hold under pressure and infrastructure that works at 3am when no one's watching.

About

Senior Platform & Infrastructure Engineer with 5+ years of experience owning distributed systems, bare metal Kubernetes infrastructure, and high-concurrency backends for high-scale community platforms and global startups.

Built and maintained systems handling 200,000+ concurrent WebSocket connections. Migrated production workloads from managed cloud to self-hosted k3s on bare metal, cutting infrastructure costs by 90%.

I work best where ownership is total and the problem is hard. No unnecessary escalation — just the system, the problem, and a solution by morning.

I've spent years as the engineer clients retained long term, paid premium to keep, and relied on when things broke at the worst possible time. Now I'm looking for a remote Platform Engineer or SRE role where I can bring that same reliability to a team that takes infrastructure seriously.

If you need someone who treats your infrastructure like their own, check out my full story or drop me a note.

Resume (PDF)

Story

  1. 01

    How It Started (2018)

    I was 15, looking for a clan. What I found instead was the beginning of everything.

  2. 02

    First Lines of Code (2019)

    Still on a phone, still no PC. But I wanted to build something myself — not run someone else's code.

  3. 03

    The Year Everything Accelerated (2020)

    I stopped experimenting and started building for real. Kubernetes, TypeScript, real clients — all in one year.

  4. 04

    Scale, Systems and New Clients (2021)

    A product idea, a race condition I'd never seen before, and the mental model that would become proper distributed systems architecture.

Experience

  1. Apr 2020 — Present

    Delivered backend systems and infrastructure for international clients across high-scale community platforms and AI startups. Migrated production workloads from managed cloud to self-hosted k3s on bare metal reducing infrastructure costs by 90%. Owned OS provisioning, firewall hardening, and CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions and GHCR.

    • Go
    • k3s
    • Kubernetes
    • Rancher
    • Prometheus
    • Grafana
    • Linux
    • GitHub Actions

Articles

  1. Five Clusters. Five Lessons. One Production System.

    2026

    How I rebuilt my Kubernetes infrastructure five times, and what each version taught me.

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