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Kartikeya Kotkar

backend · infrastructure · devops / sre-track

Final-year BCA student building backend systems and automating infrastructure out of a Linux daily driver. I write the services, containerize them, wire up the pipelines, and instrument them so someone else's 3am doesn't have to be a mystery.

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IDS ID Pvt. Ltd.

jan '26 — jun '26 · completed

SDE Intern — DevOps & Backend

Maintained Linux-based development infrastructure with Docker. Configured container networking and Nginx reverse proxies, and managed CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment reliability for internal applications.

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cinemate/

active

Mood-based movie discovery, built on semantic search over a 20k+ film dataset — vector embeddings, Bayesian-normalized re-ranking, and a dark-editorial React front end.

FastAPI ChromaDB React Docker

k3s-starter/

active

Template for a production-shaped k3s cluster — GitOps with ArgoCD, Terraform-provisioned infra, and a Prometheus/Grafana observability stack out of the box.

Terraform Kubernetes ArgoCD

sys-automation/

stable

Bash and Python utilities running as systemd services — automated backups with logging and notifications, log rotation, for my local dev environments.

Bash systemd Linux