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Jayanth Katta
Platform Engineer

Building resilient, scalable cloud systems with Terraform and GitOps. I write about what I learn — from IAM and VPCs to EKS, GitOps, and beyond.

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30
Day AWS Terraform Challenge — Completed
AWS
Cloud Platform of Choice
IaC
Terraform-First Approach
Still Learning, Always Shipping

01 — About

The person behind the posts

I'm an Platform Engineer at an organization mid-migration to the cloud. My focus is building the foundations that teams rely on — networking, IAM, compute, storage — done right, with infrastructure-as-code from day one.

I believe in understanding before doing. This site is a public record of that process: structured learning, hands-on challenges, and honest writeups of what worked and what didn't.

Outside of cloud architecture, I think a lot about Metabolic health, play Cricket for fun, and how compounding works — in systems and in life.

30
Day AWS Terraform Challenge — completed
AWS
Cloud platform of choice
IaC
Terraform-first infrastructure approach
Still learning, always shipping

02 — Writing

Latest posts

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03 — Skills

Tools I work with

Cloud & IaC
  • AWS95%
  • Terraform90%
  • CloudFormation75%
  • S3 Remote State90%
  • AWS Organizations80%
Containers & Orchestration
  • EKS85%
  • Docker88%
  • Kubernetes80%
  • Argo CD78%
  • ECS82%
CI/CD & GitOps
  • GitHub Actions90%
  • GitOps88%
  • Drift Detection85%
  • Pipeline Automation87%
Networking & Security
  • VPC Design92%
  • Transit Gateway80%
  • IAM93%
  • Security Groups90%
  • ALB / NLB85%

04 — Contact

Let's connect

I write about cloud infrastructure, share what I'm learning, and occasionally post about health and life. If you're working on interesting cloud problems or just want to talk AWS — reach out.

I'm especially interested in conversations about multi-account AWS architecture, Terraform at scale, and GitOps patterns in production environments.