status: open to work

Kartikeya Kotkar

~/backend · infra · sre

BCA Honours student at MIT-WPU building resilient backend systems, browser tooling, and automating infrastructure out of a Linux daily driver (CachyOS). I write services, containerize them, wire up CI/CD pipelines, and instrument observability to keep things up and honest.

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// experience

IDS ID Pvt. Ltd.

Jan '26 – Jun '26

SDE Intern · DevOps & Backend

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

// selected work

Cinemate

full stack

Mood-based movie discovery engine powered by semantic search over a 20k+ film dataset, leveraging vector embeddings, Bayesian-normalized re-ranking, FastAPI, and a dark React frontend.

FastAPI ChromaDB React Docker

k3s-starter

infrastructure

Production-shaped k3s cluster template utilizing GitOps with ArgoCD, Terraform-provisioned infrastructure, and an integrated Prometheus/Grafana observability stack out of the box.

Terraform Kubernetes ArgoCD

OpenPitch

mozilla add-on

Real-time audio pitch shifter browser extension published on Mozilla Add-ons. Adjusts semitones and cents with low-latency processing entirely client-side.

WebExtensions API AudioWorklet JavaScript
View Add-on

LaTeX Renderer

mozilla add-on

Browser extension published on Mozilla Add-ons. Parses LaTeX expressions in web pages on-the-fly and renders high-quality math syntax seamlessly using KaTeX.

WebExtensions API KaTeX Firefox
View Add-on

// open source

oracle / bpftune

Contributed code improvement pull requests to Oracle's eBPF-driven dynamic system auto-tuning daemon for Linux kernels.

eBPF Linux Kernel C