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Harshit Luthra

Infrastructure Lead · Security Analyst

“A tinkerer with a curious mind”

6+

Years Experience

4M+

Daily Active Users

99.99%

Uptime SLA

$200K

Cloud Costs Saved

Professional Summary

Results-driven Infrastructure Engineer with 6+ years of experience architecting and implementing scalable cloud solutions. Demonstrated expertise in optimizing infrastructure costs while maintaining 99.99% SLA for systems supporting 4M+ daily active users. Proficient in Kubernetes, AWS, and modern DevOps practices with a strong focus on automation, security, and performance optimization.

Experience

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
TrueFoundry·India
Sept. 2024 - Present
  • Driving multi-cloud adoption strategy across AWS, GCP, Azure and on-prem
  • Built a modular Terraform framework that slashed client onboarding time by 70%
  • Created Marketplace listings for major cloud providers, 40% increase in self-service customer acquisition
Infrastructure Lead (Founding Engineer)
Primetrace (Kutumb Crafto)·India
Feb. 2021 - Sept. 2024
  • Architected scalable infra on AWS with self-hosted K8s supporting 4M DAU, 1M RPM peak
  • Reduced annual cloud expenditure by $200K through self-hosted services, pod/node binpacking, spot instances
  • Designed highly available multi-broker Apache Kafka clusters and multi-node ELK Stack on spot instances
  • Accelerated deployments to under 1 minute with self-hosted GitHub-Runners + ArgoCD + Devtron
  • Achieved 99.99% uptime running stateless workloads on 95% spot instances
  • Led comprehensive observability stack (APM, distributed tracing, logging, profiling, alerting)
DevOps Engineer
smallcase·India
Feb. 2019 - Sep. 2020
  • Spearheaded infra cost optimization resulting in 90% reduction in operational expenses
  • Implemented HAProxy load balancing for improved performance and reliability
  • Integrated observability tools: Elastic-APM, Kafka-manager, Kafka-topics-ui
  • Deployed fault-tolerant data processing with Apache Kafka clusters and ELK Stack on spot instances
Technical Mentor
Udacity·Remote
Apr. 2018 - Present
  • Expert guidance and project reviews for Android and Python Development courses
Open Source Contributor
Utopian.io·Remote
Jun. 2018 - Present
  • Bug reviews and QA for multiple open-source projects

Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms
AWSAzureGCPTerraformCloudFormationSpot Instances
Containerization
KubernetesDockerHelmKustomizeArgoCDGitOps
Infrastructure
IaCLinuxIPv6AnsibleJenkinsGitHub Actions
Networking
IstioTraefikHAProxyLoad BalancingRBACNetwork PoliciesOpenVPN
Observability
PrometheusGrafanaLokiELK StackElastic-APMTempoDistributed Tracing
Data Systems
Apache KafkaRedpandaRabbitMQPostgreSQLMySQLRedisAirbyte
Programming
PythonBashGoGitCI/CD PipelinesdbtAirflowSpark

Education

B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering

Chitkara University, Punjab, India

9.29 CGPA (Distinction)Specialization: Cyber-Security
2016 - 2020

Relevant Coursework

Distributed SystemsNetwork SecurityCloud ComputingDatabase ManagementOperating Systems

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