2024 — PRESENTCURRENT ROLE
ESAB India Limited
Senior DevOps Engineer
Manage cloud infrastructure, AKS and GitLab CI/CD. Build AI agents and LLM tools, including CodeSentinel and TestFlow.
Chennai
CHENNAI, INDIA · OPEN TO ROLES
Karthik
Palani.
Senior DevOps Engineer / AI Systems
I build cloud platforms and AI tools that help engineering teams ship and maintain software.
Managing cloud infrastructure, AKS and GitLab CI/CD, and building AI agents and LLM tools at ESAB India.
01 — CAREER
2023 — 202402
Ebot AI IT Solutions
Senior DevOps Engineer
Ran a chatbot platform for finance firms on private and public cloud. Provisioned Azure infrastructure with Terraform and managed Kubernetes deployments with Helm.
Bengaluru
2022 — 202303
Motherson Technology Services
DevOps Engineer
Managed Azure infrastructure and AKS clusters for ESAB. Built GitLab and Jenkins pipelines for applications and IoT firmware.
Client: ESAB India
2019 — 202204
Xmedia Solutions
SRE Engineer
Built and deployed Odoo CRM applications from development to production. Maintained the on-premise clusters they ran on.
Chennai
2018 — 201905
Freelance
DevOps & Cloud Architect
Designed cloud infrastructure for migrations from monoliths to microservices. Built CI/CD pipelines and automated tests with Python and Pytest.
Remote
2017 — 201806
NTT Data Services
Healthcare & Insurance Operations
Handled healthcare processes and insurance claims adjudication. Gained experience with enterprise workflows and operational requirements.
Chennai
02 — PROJECTS
Selected work.
CodeSentinel and TestFlow run in production.
Cadence is a personal project in pre-alpha.
CodeSentinel ↗
An AI code reviewer for GitLab. Reads changes, retrieves relevant code and past feedback, then posts inline suggestions without repeating earlier findings.
TestFlow ↗
Runs plain-English TestRail cases in a browser using Playwright. Checks the outcome and sends pass/fail results and screenshots back to TestRail.
Cadence ↗
Turns meeting audio into speaker-labeled transcripts, decisions and action items. Speech recognition and language models run entirely on your machine.
03 — ABOUT
Infrastructure.
Applied AI.
Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD and production AI tools. I work on the full path from provisioning environments to deploying and maintaining the services they run.
My next focus is AI solutions architecture: model hosting, tool integrations and retrieval, backed by practical DevOps experience.
01 / CLOUD & PLATFORM
Azure · Kubernetes · AKS · Helm
Terraform · Docker · Proxmox · k3s
02 / DELIVERY & RELIABILITY
GitLab CI · Jenkins · Linux
Python · Pytest · Hardware-in-the-Loop
03 / AI SYSTEMS
AI agents · MCP · RAG
Local inference · Model routing · Rust
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04 / CONTACTLet’s talk.
karthikpalani1710@gmail.com ↗Based in Chennai · Open to DevOps, platform and AI roles