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KiranBandana.

Site Reliability Engineer

From the mountains of Kathmandu, Nepal to the cloud-native frontier.

I keep production systems alive, infrastructure honest, and on-call rotations survivable. 3+ years building things that don't break, or knowing exactly why they did.

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Base
Kathmandu
Nepal · NPT UTC+5:45
Mission at
Nivoda LLP
London UK · Remote
Experience
3+ Years
Cloud-native SRE
Arsenal
K8s · AWS
Terraform · Datadog
Clearance
BE Eng.
Tribhuvan Univ. · KEC

Arsenal

Superpowers

01
Cloud & Infra
AWSTerraformAzureOVHEC2S3EKSVPCRoute53CloudFormation
02
Containers & Orchestration
KubernetesHelmDockerkubectlConfig Maps
03
Observability
DatadogPrometheusGrafanaCloudWatchSLO / SLA
04
CI/CD & Version Control
GitHub ActionsJenkinsGitHubGitLabBitbucket
05
Systems & Databases
PostgreSQLLinuxMySQLNginxApacheShell Script
06
Virtualisation & Tools
VMwareHyper-VKVMSalesforceJIRAPostman

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Field Missions

2025 — Present
Nivoda LLP · London, UK
Remote · Current mission
Site Reliability Engineer
  • Owned Datadog end-to-end, dashboards, log pipelines, automated alerts that fire at the right time
  • Deep PostgreSQL work: query tuning, replication troubleshooting, backup architecture
  • Defined SLOs and SLAs; built capacity planning so services met them before incidents happened
  • IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation, no more snowflake environments, ever
  • On-call rotations, root cause analysis, runbooks the next engineer can actually follow
2021 — 2024
BerryBytes Pvt. Ltd · Pulchowk, Nepal
On-site
Platform Ops / SRE
  • Deployed and scaled production apps across Kubernetes clusters using kubectl, Helm, and custom chart authoring
  • Stood up Prometheus monitoring for the full microservices stack; Grafana dashboards teams actually opened
  • Terraform automation for all infra, cut environment provisioning from hours to minutes
  • Docker pipelines with dev team; core Linux troubleshooting; WHM/cPanel administration
2020 — 2021
CloudChomp, Inc.
Remote
Application Support Engineer
  • Daily hands-on with VMware, Hyper-V, KVM across multiple Linux distributions
  • Customer deployment support and SLA-bound on-call, the role that taught calm under pressure
2019 — 2020
Worldlink Communications · Kathmandu
On-site
Technical Support Engineer
  • L1 support for retail customers; escalation to NOC, server, and programming teams
  • First engineering role, learned that good documentation saves everyone, including future you

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Secret Identity

Origin
Raised in Kathmandu, Nepal, city of temples, mountains, and historically unreliable internet. That last part might be exactly why reliability engineering called to me.

Completed a BE in Computer Engineering at Kantipur Engineering College, Tribhuvan University. I discovered Linux, and never looked back.

Today I work remotely for a London company while staying rooted in Nepal — proof that good SREs exist in every timezone.
Languages
NepaliNepal BhasaEnglishHindi
Education
BE Computer Engineering
Kantipur Engineering College (KEC)
Dhapakhel, Lalitpur · Tribhuvan University
+2 Science
Trinity International Higher Secondary School
Dillibazar, Kathmandu · HSEB
Code of conduct
Observability before optimization
Automate anything repeated twice
Blameless incidents, every time
Runbooks that actually make sense at 2am
DC Comics fan. Prometheus and Grafana both.

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Emailkiranbandana80@gmail.com
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Phone977-9843464480
How I operate
Observability first, always
Automate the boring parts
Blameless post-mortems
Document for your 2am self
Open to Opportunities
SRE and cloud infrastructure roles. Remote-first preferred. Based in Kathmandu (NPT), available internationally. Let's build something that actually stays up.
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