Amit Sharma — Cloud & Platform Engineering Leader

You Don't Own a Kubernetes Platform Until You Own the Layer Beneath It

Running self-managed Talos Kubernetes on Nutanix, with no cloud provider under it, changed how I design platforms on managed clouds too. Here's what the layer beneath teaches you.

Idle Capacity Is the Most Expensive Thing on Your Platform

I built my first capacity tooling in 2015, bursting HPC jobs to the cloud when the on-prem queue backed up. A decade later, on much bigger fleets, the lesson is unchanged: idle capacity and queue wait are the same number seen from two sides, and both should be on the dashboard next to latency.

Give the Agent the Keyboard, Keep the Approval

I've rolled out AI tooling across a delivery team and I'm building an agentic workflow that drafts Terraform and opens pull requests. The rule that's held up: agents may author, humans must approve, and the review bar doesn't move.

Compliance Is a Design Input, Not a Review Gate

I've designed HIPAA-scoped platforms, led an ISO audit to completion, and run a security remediation programme on a trading platform. The pattern that holds: if compliance shows up as a review at the end, you've already lost the argument with the auditor.

Ten Years of Designing on Other People's Constraints

Consulting means you never get the greenfield you'd draw on a whiteboard. Fixed windows, shared databases, no managed control plane, a team that has to run it after you leave. I've come to think the constraint is the design.

Onboarding 100 Apps Onto One Pipeline Is a Governance Problem

The CI/CD part took weeks. Getting a hundred application teams to accept one standard, with image governance and deployment controls they couldn't opt out of, took the rest of the engagement. That's the actual work.

The Independence Gap: Why Control Masquerades as Care in Indian Households

Patriarchal oversight and delayed autonomy are quietly undermining independence and decision-making skills in young adults.

Why Ancient Rituals Are Better Productivity Tools Than Your Todo App

How traditional structures from Indian culture offer surprising frameworks for modern focus and goal attainment.

When Engineers Stop Talking – The Cost of Silence

How speed, remote work, and AI have eroded conversation—and what we're losing in the process.

The Competitive Trap: Why India's Education System Is Quietly Killing Innovation

How competitive obsession in Indian education undermines technical excellence and collaborative problem-solving.

The Engineer Who Isn't Afraid

AI can now write code, generate infrastructure, and answer architecture questions. Most of the engineers I know are scared. I think the scared ones are asking the wrong question.