N · M
Stand something up MARNENI Then keep it alive

NISHANTH

Marble portrait head of Socrates
Role
Founding Engineer
Org
Krignal AI
Base
Hyderabad, IN
Local
—
Cluster
reconciled

DevOps and full-stack, homelab‑grown. Manifests, pipelines, backends, frontends — and a Raspberry Pi cluster humming in a corner of a room in Hyderabad.

See the work Résumé
I

WHO

The person answering at 2am

Founding engineer at Krignal AI. Being early means owning the whole lifecycle — design it, build it, ship it, then answer for it at 2am when it misbehaves.

DevOps one day, backend the next, frontend the day after, a product argument in between. Everything I know about infrastructure I learned twice: once from the documentation, and once from breaking it on hardware I own. The second time is the one that stuck.

Based
Hyderabad, India
Cluster
K3s on a Raspberry Pi 5
Reconciler
ArgoCD, always
Also
shoots photographs
Marble bust of Epicurus
Epicurus · measure the pleasure, ship the thing
II

WORK

Three things that run
  1. Plate I

    Homelab

    GitOps cluster · self-hosted · always on

    K3s on a Raspberry Pi 5, reconciled entirely by ArgoCD. Every service that runs on it exists first as a file in Git. A testbed, a set of tools I actually use, and the safest place I know to break things.

    • K3s
    • ArgoCD
    • Pi 5
    • Nginx
    • Grafana
  2. Plate II

    VigiLens Winner

    Computer vision · deep learning

    A CNN security layer that sits on top of CCTV that already exists, so a building gets intelligent detection without swapping a single camera. Domain winner, security category, HackArena 2024.

    • Python
    • CNN
    • OpenCV
  3. Plate III

    ChefGuru

    Full-stack web app

    Recipe search and management — finding, saving, organising. A small complete product, built end to end from schema to interface.

    • Python
    • Flask
    • PostgreSQL
Desired state MMXXVI Observed state

RECONCILE

He argued until the argument was finished, then drank what the verdict said. Declarative to the end.

III

KIT

Solid daily, outlined comfortable

Infra

  • Docker
  • Linux
  • Podman
  • VMs
  • Kubernetes
  • K3s
  • LXC

GitOps

  • ArgoCD
  • FluxCD
  • GH Actions
  • Forgejo
  • Ansible

Net & ops

  • Nginx
  • Reverse proxy
  • Load balancing
  • Rate limiting
  • Grafana

Languages

  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • Java
  • Rust
  • C

Backend

  • Django
  • FastAPI
  • Flask
  • Express
  • Hono
  • Spring
  • Celery

Front & data

  • React
  • SvelteKit
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • MongoDB
  • RabbitMQ

Kubernetes at homelab scale — happy to deploy and operate it, honest that I have not yet run it in production.

IV

PATH

How it got here
  1. 2025 →

    Founding Engineer

    Krignal AI

    DevOps, backend, frontend and infrastructure at an early-stage AI company.

  2. 2022–26

    B.E. Engineering

    Neil Gokte Institute of Technology

    Hyderabad, India.

  3. 2024

    Domain Winner

    HackArena · National

    Security category, for VigiLens.

  4. NGIT

    Coordinator

    Chaaya Photography Club

    And volunteer at Techtonic 2024.

Marble bust of Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius · the log is written for the writer
V

APPARATUS

Working model — please touch

The whole idea behind the homelab, in one box. The file is the truth, the cluster is reality. Kill a pod and watch. Then switch the reconciler off and kill another one.

Live cluster Synced
      VI

      SAY HELLO

      I actually reply

      Infrastructure, product, a cluster that will not come up — all fair game.