I am a Software Architect working on DevSecOps at UST, in Pune. Twenty-two years in, the job I keep coming back to is the same one: make shipping software boring.
I started in 2004 writing ASP.NET screens, and spent the better part of fourteen years in the Microsoft stack — C#, SharePoint, migrations off mainframe green screens — before moving to the platform side of the house. Since then it has been Kubernetes, Terraform, pipelines, and the unglamorous work of making releases predictable enough that nobody has to think about them.
Along the way I have worked at client sites in Australia, Germany and Belgium, across BFSI, retail, telecom, manufacturing and information services. Cisco, Adidas, Wolters Kluwer, ANZ, Telstra, Morgan Stanley. Mostly the work has been architecture and the arguments that come before it: what the platform should look like, what it should refuse to do, and who has to agree.
What I actually do
Designing and governing CI/CD so that security and quality gates are part of the road rather than a checkpoint at the end. Provisioning cloud infrastructure as code — Terraform and Helm, mostly on EKS. Embedding SAST, policy-as-code and container scanning where they belong. Building observability that answers questions instead of producing dashboards nobody opens. And guiding engineering teams on standards, which is a polite way of saying I spend a lot of time explaining why the boring option is the right one.
Away from the keyboard
I make sawdust. I design furniture and small machines in SketchUp, draw them properly, then cut them — corded tools, hand tools, whatever the job wants. It turns out to be the same discipline as the day job. Get the drawing right and the assembly stops being an argument; get it wrong and no amount of clamping saves you.