Jinna Balu

Jinna Balu

Lead Site Reliability Engineer driving platform reliability, observability, and secure production delivery for global engineering organizations.

12+
Years Experience
53 / 147
GitHub Repos / Stars
8,013
SO Reputation

Selected Impact

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

Centralized Logging

Architected a centralized logging platform handling 21M logs per hour across 12+ data centers with Kafka, Logstash, and Elasticsearch.

Global Traffic Migration

Led a zero-downtime migration of a global traffic entry point from Oracle Dyn to Cloudflare Load Balancer for safer global steering.

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

Featured Work

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

Docker Registry UI

Modern web UI for Docker Registry with built-in Trivy vulnerability scanning. Open source with active community adoption.

15.5K pulls on GitHub Packages

Website GitHub
LDAP Manager

Web-based LDAP management tool for user and group administration. Open source with an intuitive interface.

Website GitHub
Infinite Containers

Open-source community with 60+ repositories covering Docker, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Cassandra, and more.

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GitHub Repositories

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

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GitHub Snapshot
Profile

53 owned public repositories across both accounts, with 147 total stars and forked repositories removed.

39 Personal Repos
14 Org Repos
82 Personal Stars
65 Org Stars

Snapshot updated 2026-06-21.

VibhuviOiO/infinite-containers 46

Various docker-compose files I use on dev or production

Organization Go Template Jun 14, 2026
jinnabaalu/GitCheatSheet 42

Git Cheat Sheet

Personal Unknown Nov 06, 2025
VibhuviOiO/docker-registry-ui 13

Enterprise-ready Docker Registry UI with built-in Trivy scanning, multi-registry management, bulk retention policies, repository analytics, and secure image lifecycle operations.

Organization JavaScript Jun 16, 2026
jinnabaalu/caddy-operations 8

All about Caddy use-cases

Personal HTML Oct 14, 2025
jinnabaalu/jekyll-seed 3

Jekyll Seed Project with Static application best practices

Personal HTML Aug 13, 2025

Top Stack Overflow Answers

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

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Stack Overflow
Profile

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

8,013 Reputation
1/41/51 Gold / Silver / Bronze
docker · 496 docker-compose · 230 docker-volume · 179 docker-image · 101 docker-swarm · 96

Snapshot updated 2026-06-21.

What is a dangling image and what is an unused image? 101
Apr 12, 2018 docker docker-image
Docker Compose Relative paths vs Docker volume 88
Accepted Oct 24, 2017 docker docker-compose docker-volume
How to create docker volume device/host path 79
Accepted Apr 21, 2018 docker docker-volume
Convert a docker run command into a docker-compose 71
Accepted Apr 23, 2018 docker docker-compose docker-swarm
Elasticsearch - Bootstrap checks failing 33
Nov 09, 2017 elasticsearch

Latest Articles

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Popular Pick GoDaddy Domain with GitHub Pages 749 claps Medium
Jun 16, 2026 How We Migrated a High-Traffic Recommendation Stack to AKS Without Downtime
Apr 15, 2025 Elasticsearch Secure Cluster with TLS using Docker Compose
Apr 02, 2023 MongoDB Three Node Cluster with Replicaset in a Single Server for POC
Apr 02, 2023 MongoDB Three Node Cluster with Replicaset for Production
Apr 02, 2023 MongoDB Single Node Cluster with Replicaset
Apr 02, 2023 Create the keyfile for Internal Authentication
Mar 22, 2023 Caddy as Load Balancer and Reverse Proxy with Docker Compose
Feb 19, 2021 Single Node Apache Nifi Container

Long-Term Engineering Depth

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

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