Platform & Infrastructure Engineer with 12+ years of experience building, operating and troubleshooting production distributed systems, including 8+ years running blockchain infrastructure.
I enjoy building production platforms, Kubernetes infrastructure, distributed systems, developer platforms and AI-assisted operational tooling.
- 🇬🇧 Based in London, UK
- ☸️ Platform & Infrastructure Engineer
- ⚙️ Kubernetes, Linux & Cloud Infrastructure
- 🌍 Blockchain Infrastructure & Validator Operations
- 📊 Observability & Reliability Engineering
- 🤖 AI-assisted Platform Automation
- ❤️ Open Source Contributor (Ethereum Documentation)
Platform
- Linux
- Kubernetes (Bare Metal & Cloud)
- Docker
- Terraform
- ArgoCD
- GitOps
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- AWS
- GCP
- Networking
- Load Balancing
- High Availability
- Infrastructure Automation
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Loki
- Jaeger
- OpenTelemetry
- eBPF
- Cilium
- PagerDuty
- Datadog
- ELK
- Ethereum
- Hyperledger Fabric
- Hyperledger Besu
- Tendermint
- Autonity
- Validator Operations
- HA RPC Infrastructure
- Blockscout
- Smart Contracts
- Python
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- SQL
- PostgreSQL
- TimescaleDB
- dbt
- Neo4j
Currently exploring AI for Platform Engineering.
- MCP Servers
- Claude API
- DeepSeek
- OpenClaw
- Local LLMs
- AI-assisted Platform Automation
- Agentic Workflows
Production-like Kubernetes environment with GitOps, monitoring, networking and AI services.
Running local LLMs using:
- Ollama
- DeepSeek
- OpenClaw
Including:
- MCP
- Claude Desktop
- AI Automation
- Local Inference
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/raj-s-bhardwaj
- GitHub: https://github.com/raj-shekhar1