Platform Engineer / Tinkerer / Toolsmith

Aniket Patel

I am a platform engineer and a hobbyist tinkerer. I build dependable developer platforms and prefer simple tools over unnecessary complexity.

My curiosity about how the web worked pulled me into programming in 2008. I often wondered how a site like Google could serve the entire world, and why people typed google.com just to check if the Internet was up. Those were the days of Nokia PC Suite and ₹20 recharges to get the Internet working on my Zenith computer. I still remember being an early user of Google Chrome. I burned through three recharges just to download the browser and the Bluefish HTML editor (surprisingly, it’s still an active project), which I used to build my very first website.

At home, computer engineering books from my older sister were always around, and I read them out of curiosity. That exposure nudged me toward studying Computer Engineering. In college, I came across research on the Google File System and Borg. The scale and ambition of those systems fascinated me and drew me toward infrastructure—release automation, orchestration, and the often overlooked but essential parts that keep software reliable.

Since then, I’ve worked on large-scale migrations between cloud providers, re-architected infrastructure for startups to cut costs by up to 70%, and tackled complex challenges like moving distributed file systems such as GlusterFS. I’ve focused on improving CI/CD with GitOps practices, building internal tooling to reduce deployment friction, and designing platforms that balance cost awareness with scalability. I enjoy turning messy operational challenges into clear, reproducible workflows that teams can rely on, so they can focus on building instead of fighting infrastructure.

I believe technology is most useful when it is widely accessible and scales gracefully. Personal hacks are fun; platforms that others can rely on are better.

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