Ritesh Sonawane

Work with me

I am available for remote SRE, platform engineering, DevOps, and Kubernetes infrastructure work.

What I do

Kubernetes platforms. Production clusters on managed Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS) and on bare metal with kubeadm, Talos, and k3s. Cloud-agnostic Helm charts, including fully air-gapped multi-cloud installs.

Observability. Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics. RED metrics, service graphs, and alerting that people actually act on.

Migrations. Moving large systems without downtime — time-series databases, cloud-to-cloud, orchestration engines, logging stacks.

GPU and AI infrastructure. NVIDIA GPU Operator on A30/H100, VRAM-based scheduling, KubeVirt-based GPU cloud platforms, GPU-aware provisioning APIs.

CI/CD and delivery. GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, Tekton, Replicated for enterprise onboarding, SBOM generation and vulnerability scanning in the pipeline.

Some things I have shipped

  • Migrated 100 TB+ of InfluxDB data to Grafana Mimir with zero downtime, including 1000+ Grafana dashboards converted from InfluxQL to PromQL, cutting compute and memory use by 30%
  • Architected 3 cloud-agnostic Helm charts orchestrating 70+ microservices in fully air-gapped AWS, GCP, and Azure deployments with GPU node support
  • Built a production GPU cloud platform on bare-metal Kubernetes with KubeVirt and NVIDIA GPUs, holding 99.9%+ uptime for commercial workloads
  • Found infrastructure inefficiencies worth $36,000 in annual savings across 4 production AKS clusters
  • Reduced enterprise customer onboarding from days to one hour using Replicated
  • Cut pod startup time for a Next.js app from 5 minutes to 30 seconds with a Go-based container entrypoint

I have done this across 10+ client environments in telecom, AI/ML, fintech, and enterprise SaaS, including SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance work.

Getting in touch

Email job@riteshsonawane.com with your infrastructure stack, the current bottleneck, and the kind of help you need. That is usually enough for me to tell you whether I am the right person.

Full work history is on my about page. I also write up much of this work on the blog.