The 60-second version.
| Roles | DevOps Engineer · Platform Engineer · Site Reliability Engineer · Cloud Engineer |
| Location | Tracy, California (San Francisco Bay Area) |
| Work arrangement | Remote anywhere in the U.S., or hybrid in the Bay Area |
| Availability | Open to new roles now |
| Core stack | Kubernetes (AKS, k3s, k3d) · Terraform · FluxCD / GitOps · GitHub Actions · AWS · Azure · Docker · Prometheus / Grafana · Python · Bash |
| Background | U.S. Navy veteran (avionics electronics technician); 10+ years of regulated healthcare diagnostics operations at Genomic Health / Exact Sciences |
What I’ve built
- Multi-tenant Kubernetes platform on Azure (AKS): built over 10 phases with Terraform; onboarding a new customer is a 1-line change.
- Raspberry Pi K3s cluster: 3 nodes run through GitOps with Flux; 4 real incidents diagnosed and written up as postmortems.
- CI/CD pipeline with security gates: 23 backend tests at 98.55% coverage; Trivy HIGH/CRITICAL findings cut from 20 to zero.
Details and links: Projects
Get in touch
- Email: [email protected] (résumé available on request)
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/babu-macharia
- GitHub: github.com/bmacharia