Jinna Balu

Jinna Balu

Platform Architect for globally distributed systems, internal platforms, SRE practices, and secure production delivery.

Selected Impact

High-signal outcomes across client environments, platform architecture, and open-source product delivery.

Expertise

Owning platform architecture, scale, reliability, and delivery systems for global engineering teams.

Infrastructure & Cloud

High-availability distributed clusters, capacity planning, and AWS cost optimization.

AWS Azure Docker Kubernetes Ansible HAProxy Cloudflare Nginx Caddy
DevSecOps & CI/CD

Shift-Left security, automated pipelines, SOC2/GDPR/PCI DSS compliance.

Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI Bitbucket Pipelines Self-Hosted Runners
Data & Streaming

Distributed database clusters, search engines, and event streaming at scale.

Elasticsearch Cassandra Kafka PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis Milvus Pinecone Qdrant
Observability & SRE

Observability-driven development, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.

ELK Stack Prometheus + Tempo Grafana Uptime Kuma

VibhuviOiO — Open Source Products

Open-source platform engineering initiative I founded to ship production-ready infrastructure products

Platform Engg

CI/CD patterns, infrastructure automation, and production-grade platform practices shaped by long-term ownership.

DevSecOps Leadership

Security-first delivery, vulnerability reduction, and compliance-minded engineering for production systems.

AWS Cost Optimization

EBS optimization, right-sizing, and practical cost-efficiency patterns built from operating real workloads.

Open Source Products

Production-ready tools such as Docker Registry UI, LDAP Manager, OpenLDAP Docker, and related infrastructure projects.

Featured Work

Proof of platform ownership across open source products, technical writing, and engineering systems

GitHub Repositories

Open-source execution across platform tooling, infrastructure automation, and developer-facing products.

GitHub Snapshot
Profile

51 owned public repositories across both accounts, with 143 total stars and forked repositories removed.

39 Personal Repos
12 Org Repos
82 Personal Stars
61 Org Stars

Snapshot updated 2026-04-05.

Various docker-compose files I use on dev or production

Organization Go Template Feb 23, 2026

Git Cheat Sheet

Personal Unknown Nov 06, 2025

No description provided.

Organization JavaScript Apr 04, 2026

All about Caddy use-cases

Personal HTML Oct 14, 2025

OpenLDAP Tutorial

Organization Shell Mar 08, 2026

Top Stack Overflow Answers

Highest-voted answers across Docker, Elasticsearch, and production operations.

Stack Overflow
Profile

High-signal answers focused on Docker, Elasticsearch, and production operations.

7,997 Reputation
1/41/51 Gold / Silver / Bronze
docker · 496 docker-compose · 229 docker-volume · 179 docker-image · 101 docker-swarm · 96

Snapshot updated 2026-04-05.

Apr 12, 2018 docker docker-image
Accepted Oct 24, 2017 docker docker-compose docker-volume
Accepted Apr 21, 2018 docker docker-volume
Accepted Apr 23, 2018 docker docker-compose docker-swarm
Nov 09, 2017 elasticsearch

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Tech Stack

Tools and technologies I work with daily

Long-Term Engineering Depth

Built through long-term ownership of production systems, open-source products, and practical infrastructure leadership.

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