Simar Ahuja

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Cloud and platform engineer focused on practical systems: clean configs, useful automation, and debugging things that only break in prod.

• Working across Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, AWS and CI/CD
• Building Upstream and Ephemeral Environment Engine

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Upstream A targeted open-source issue finder for cloud-native and platform engineers. It curates high-signal work, classifies issues by infrastructure domain and contribution shape, and explains why each match fits. Highlights Deterministic, explainable matching for cloud-native contribution opportunities Static interface with private, browser-local tracking Scheduled GitHub Actions feed refresh and Pages deployment Helm, Argo CD, and chart-configuration contribution discovery Public contribution journey with optional read-only PR status sync Kubernetes Helm ecosystem Terraform AWS Platform engineering GitHub Actions GitHub Pages Live site · Source · Journey

Ephemeral Environment Engine A fully local preview-environment platform for Kubernetes workloads, built to model PR-scoped infrastructure and application delivery without requiring a paid cloud environment. Highlights K3d cluster with Traefik and Helm-based preview workloads PR-isolated Terraform and Terragrunt state against LocalStack Argo CD ApplicationSet automation for preview environments Janitor lifecycle automation and deterministic governance checks Kubernetes K3d Helm Terraform Terragrunt Argo CD Python LocalStack Source

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Infrastructure as code      -> Terraform, Terragrunt, repeatable environments, isolated state
Kubernetes platforms        -> Amazon EKS, AWS-managed clusters, local K3d previews
Helm & GitOps               -> Argo CD App of Apps; Keycloak, kube-prometheus-stack, Eclipse Che, GitLab, Nexus
Delivery automation         -> CI/CD, Helm releases, GitOps workflows, scheduled deployment
Monitoring & observability  -> kube-prometheus-stack, Prometheus, Grafana
Developer experience        -> reproducible toolchains, practical automation

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_{clean configs · useful automation · observable systems}