VIVEK CHHIKARA DEVOPS & CLOUD

ROLE REMOTE • WORLDWIDE • FULL-TIME OR CONTRACT

DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

L5 CLOUD INFRA • L6 CONTAINERS • 1,800+ LIVE SITES

I've designed and run private bare-metal cloud since 2015. Today it hosts 1,800+ live websites. I build deployments that repeat exactly, isolate failures and protect themselves.

DESCEND INTO THE INFRASTRUCTURE LAYERS

01 WHAT I BRING

Infrastructure is a product.
I run it like one.

Most teams rent cloud capacity without understanding how it fails. I design infrastructure from the hardware up, so every layer has a known failure mode, an owner and a recovery path.

  • Self-hosted cloud at scale: multi-node Linux VPS topologies, DNS routing clusters and automated TLS.
  • Container orchestration: Docker Swarm, immutable images, zero-downtime rolling upgrades.
  • Edge and routing: Traefik reverse proxies, zero-trust TLS, centralized DNS.
  • Security built into the pipeline: honeypots, IP quarantine and least-privilege admin control.
  • Data layer: PostgreSQL, Neo4j and ChromaDB with tested backups.

CASE PRIVATE CLOUD PLATFORM

1,800+ live sites.
Zero hyperscaler markup.

Since 2015 I've built and operated a private bare-metal cloud that hosts a large portfolio of client websites, with no dependency on AWS, GCP or Azure.

Centralized DNS routing clusters, multi-node Linux VPS topologies, automated TLS and Traefik edge proxies keep it up, and the cost stays a fraction of hyperscaler pricing.

  • 1,800+ Live Sites
  • Bare-Metal VPS
  • DNS Clusters
  • Traefik
  • Automated TLS

CASE VIVEK DEVOPS

Immutable deployments.
Hardened execution kernels.

Infrastructure must be repeatable, sandboxed and able to defend itself. I deploy Docker Swarm container clusters paired with Vivek DevOps, my custom WordPress security layer.

It includes kernel-level honeypot traps, God Admin access control, automated IP quarantine and zero-downtime rolling upgrades, backed by PostgreSQL and ChromaDB.

  • Docker Swarm
  • Immutable CI/CD
  • Rolling Upgrades
  • Honeypots

CASE JARVIS MEMORY STACK

Stateful services,
self-hosted and secured.

JARVIS runs on my own infrastructure: Neo4j and PostgreSQL behind Traefik, with HTTPS and SSE endpoints serving several AI clients at once.

It shows the full lifecycle I own, from provisioning and TLS to API-key auth, encrypted secrets and upgrades that keep the data intact.

  • Neo4j
  • PostgreSQL
  • SSE over HTTPS
  • Encrypted Vault

METHODHOW I RUN INFRASTRUCTURE

Operating constraints

01

Reproducible or it doesn't ship.

Every environment is rebuilt from code and images, so there are no snowflake servers and nothing drifts.

02

Failure is designed for.

Rolling upgrades, health checks and isolation mean one failing service never takes down its neighbours.

03

Security lives in the platform.

TLS, quarantine and access control are part of the platform from day one, not a ticket for later.

STACK TOOLS I RUN IN PRODUCTION

The toolkit.

  • Linux
  • Docker
  • Docker Swarm
  • Traefik
  • Nginx
  • DNS
  • TLS / ACME
  • CI/CD
  • PostgreSQL
  • Neo4j
  • ChromaDB
  • Cloudflare Tunnels
  • Python
  • Node.js

2015 RUNNING SELF-OWNED CLOUD IN PRODUCTION SINCE

FAQDEVOPS QUESTIONS

Frequently asked

What DevOps experience do you have?

Since 2015 I've designed and operated private bare-metal cloud infrastructure that now hosts 1,800+ live websites. It runs on multi-node Linux VPS topologies, DNS routing clusters, Traefik reverse proxies, automated TLS and Docker Swarm with zero-downtime rolling upgrades.

Can you move a team off AWS, GCP or Azure?

Where the economics and risk justify it, yes. I've run production on self-owned infrastructure for over a decade, and I can design hybrid or fully self-hosted setups, or harden and simplify an existing hyperscaler deployment.

Do you work remotely?

Yes. I'm based in Gurugram, India and work remotely with teams worldwide, full-time or on contract.

How do I hire you?

Email [email protected] or connect on LinkedIn.

INITIATE ENGAGEMENT

Hiring a DevOps engineer?

Open to full-time remote roles and contract infrastructure work, worldwide.