MELBOURNE-BASED ยท HUMAN FIRST, ENGINEER SECOND

HEY, I'M
SATVIK.
I BUILD.

Part DevOps engineer, part entrepreneur, full-time curious human. I make complicated systems simpler, ideas real, and occasionally turn a perfectly good weekend into a new project.

DevOps @ OptusCo-founder @ OnlyFlashLudhiana โ†’ Melbourne
01 / THE HUMAN BEHIND THE SCREEN

More than just code.

A little bit about where I've been, what drives me, and why this site has an arcade.

HELLO, INTERNET ๐Ÿ‘‹

"I'm the kind of person who sees a problem and thinks, there has to be a smarter way."

I grew up in Ludhiana, Punjab and moved to Melbourne in 2019. Software engineering started as what I studied; now it's how I think. At work I help teams make infrastructure more reliable and observable. Outside work I build a photobooth business, try new things, work out, and chase the next interesting idea.

A RANDOM FACT ABOUT ME

New country, new chapter.

2019

I moved from Ludhiana, Punjab to Melbourne, Australia to study software engineering.

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Always learning

Cloud, AI, Kubernetes and finding simpler answers to hard problems.

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Outside the terminal

Gym sessions, trying new ideas, and building a life away from a screen.

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Play is a feature

I believe good websites should have some personality. Yes, you can play Snake here.

02 / NOT JUST TALK

Things I've built.

A mix of infrastructure, automation, research, and a slightly different kind of creative business.

001 / OBSERVABILITY

Infrastructure that
actually talks back.

Multi-vendor monitoring plugins, real-time metrics and dashboards that make complex infrastructure easier to understand.

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What's under the hood?

Built monitoring integrations across Cisco, Nokia, Meraki, Fortinet and other systems; connected alerts to incident workflows and visualised live operational data.

002 / AUTOMATION

Less repetitive work.
More useful work.

CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure configuration automation, deployment tooling and documentation workflows.

GitLab CI/CDAnsibleDockerLinux
What's under the hood?

Improved repeatability across environments and created processes that helped reduce manual deployment mistakes and speed up troubleshooting.

003 / INTERNAL TOOLS

Small tools.
Big quality-of-life gains.

Containerised internal microservices and custom web applications to make operational workflows easier.

PythonBottleDockerKubernetes
What's under the hood?

Developed operational dashboards, request-tracking tools and secure, version-controlled configuration backups with secrets-management integration.

004 / MACHINE LEARNING

Can machines read
market patterns?

My Deakin honours research explored financial time-series forecasting using machine-learning approaches.

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What's under the hood?

Compared models including LSTM, GRU, CNN and ARIMA to study financial time-series forecasts and their practical limitations.

005 / ENTREPRENEURSHIP

OnlyFlash.
Serious fun.

A Melbourne photobooth venture: events, custom photo strip designs, instant prints and making moments worth keeping.

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More about OnlyFlash

From client communication and marketing to templates and event delivery, it's a hands-on way to build something beyond software. See OnlyFlash on Instagram โ†—

006 / PAST WORK

Making everyday tools
work for people.

Built usable digital forms for healthcare workflows, where clarity, reliability and a smooth experience matter.

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More about this project

At Epworth HealthCare, worked with clinical and IT teams to make interactive eForms and their printable counterparts consistent and dependable.

03 / THE PLOT SO FAR

My story, in chapters.

No straight line. Plenty of learning. A lot of building along the way.

2023 โ€” NOW

DevOps Engineer ยท Optus

Cloud and infrastructure tooling, observability, Python automation, CI/CD, containers and making operations more resilient.

THE MAIN QUEST
2026 โ€” NOW

Co-founder ยท OnlyFlash Photobooths

Building a creative side business around memorable experiences, design, logistics and real customers.

SIDE QUEST UNLOCKED
2023

eForms Developer ยท Epworth HealthCare

Designed web forms for clinical and administrative processes with a focus on usability.

FIRST STEPS
2019 โ€” 2023

Bachelor of Software Engineering (Honours) ยท Deakin

Studied software engineering in Melbourne and researched machine-learning models for financial time series.

FOUNDATIONS
2019

Ludhiana โ†’ Melbourne

A move across continents and the start of a much bigger personal and professional adventure.

NEW GAME +
04 / WHAT'S IN MY BACKPACK

Tools of the trade.

Things I use, enjoy learning, and bring into whatever I work on.

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Code & automation

Python, JavaScript, Bash, REST APIs, Git, scripting, and a healthy preference for doing things once.

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Cloud & containers

AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes and the foundations of scalable deployment.

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Shipping & infrastructure

GitLab CI/CD, Ansible, Linux, config automation, Vault and reliable deployments.

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Watching the systems

Grafana, Icinga, RabbitMQ, Moogsoft, ServiceNow and monitoring integrations.

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Machine learning

TensorFlow, Keras, time-series models, data processing and curiosity about applied AI.

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Building things people love

Front-end interfaces, product thinking, small business operations and creative projects.

THE BADGE COLLECTION

Certifications & credentials

Links open the certification provider's information page. Personal credential verification links can be added in the configuration.

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Work hard.
Play a little.

A personal website shouldn't feel like homework. Snake, Tic-Tac-Toe and a ridiculously addictive bird game are waiting.

Enter my arcade ๐ŸŽฎ โ†’