Pavan Padamata

Building self-hosted replacements for the SaaS tools small teams pay per seat for, on EU infrastructure the team controls. - Email: self-hosted mail and sending infrastructure with deliverability testing - Secure access: mesh VPN for team access across regions - Collaboration: files, documents and chat on one stack - Operations: Docker Compose deployments, automated backups, zero-downtime updates

Linux and cloud infrastructure for international clients, end to end. 100% Job Success Score. - AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC) with Terraform; Prometheus and Grafana for alerting. - CI/CD in Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD with zero-downtime releases. - Moved clients from paid SaaS to self-hosted Nextcloud, Mailcow and Vaultwarden on EU servers. - DNS, Postfix/Dovecot, Nginx reverse proxies, SSL, server hardening. - Backups, log rotation and health checks with Bash and cron; disaster-recovery workflows.

Owned the Linux cloud infrastructure of a startup for 12 months: deployment, security, reliability and daily operations. - Replaced paid SaaS with self-hosted open-source tools; scoped deployments and planned data migrations. - Multi-service stacks with Docker and Docker Compose. - Secured services with reverse proxies, DNS, SSL/TLS and access controls. - Backup and recovery. - Incident diagnosis across application, container, network and caching layers.