About me
Kishan Tiwari
Senior Staff DevOps Engineer
Building reliable infrastructure. Exploring distributed systems. Growing through engineering.
Professional journey
- Jan 2025 – Present
Senior Staff DevOps Engineer · Palo Alto Networks
Infrastructure optimization and cloud solutions.
- Jul 2023 – Jan 2025
Site Reliability Engineer III · OLX India
Site reliability engineering for a high-traffic classifieds platform.
- May 2022 – Jul 2023
Site Reliability Engineer II · OLX Autos
Reliability and infrastructure for the automotive marketplace.
- Nov 2020 – May 2022
DevOps Engineer · Spinny
Ran AWS infrastructure for a used-car platform serving 30–35 million requests a day. Cut NAT gateway costs by moving ECS from Fargate to EC2, built an OpenResty and Prometheus observability stack, autoscaled ECS capacity, and set up a highly available OpenVPN cluster and autoscaling Jenkins on spot instances.
- Nov 2019 – Nov 2020
DevOps Engineer · Qualcomm (via Collabera)
Operated cloud infrastructure for Qualcomm location services handling billions of requests from IoT and mobile devices: Lambda@Edge and CloudFront, CloudFormation, custom DNS, and Splunk dashboards.
- Apr 2019 – Nov 2019
DevOps Engineer · Eleve Media
Built the ECS, CI/CD (Jenkins) and monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) foundations for a Node.js microservices platform and migrated MongoDB to AWS.
- Jun 2017 – Apr 2019
Linux System Administrator · Mobiloitte
Server administration, SSL, patching, CI/CD automation and cloud proofs of concept for client workloads.
Technical interests
Engineering philosophy
Reliability first
Systems should fail gracefully and recover quickly.
Automate the toil
If it is done twice by hand, it should be code.
Observable by default
You cannot fix what you cannot see.
Secure by design
Security belongs in the platform, not bolted on after.
Keep it simple
Prefer boring, well-understood building blocks.
Keep learning
Share knowledge and grow through engineering.