# vineeth.yaml name: Vineeth Vijayan location: Huizen, Amsterdam 🇳🇱 day_job: Senior DevOps Engineer @ IKEA philosophy: "If you did it twice, automate it. If you automated it, monitor it." fun_fact: Breaking and fixing infrastructure since 2011 currently: ikea: - Managing 600+ pod Kubernetes environments across all prod regions for some IKEA store applications - Rebuilding observability stack with OpenTelemetry → Grafana - Migrating Kafka clusters without anyone noticing (zero downtime) - Alicloud cloud setup (k8s, databases) for special China region requirements - Building AI agents to supercharge ServiceNow incident handling (won IKEA Hackathon 🏆) - Setting up monitoring where traditional setups are absent or simply not possible homelab: - Running a Proxmox-powered lab on repurposed hardware with 70+ containers - Building a Random Video Clips Streaming Server as a personal IPTV-style project - See "🏠 Homelab" section below
☁️ Cloud & Platforms
GCP AWS OpenShift Azure AliCloud Databricks VMware
🐳 Containers & Orchestration
Kubernetes Docker Helm ArgoCD Istio
⚙️ IaC & Config Management
🔄 CI/CD
GitHub Actions Jenkins Gradle SonarQube Artifactory
📊 Observability
Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Splunk Datadog
📡 Streaming & Data
🔐 Security & Secrets
💻 Languages
IKEA ████████████████░░░░ May 2023 → now
Nike ████████████░░░░░░░░ May 2021 → Apr 2023
TenneT ███████░░░░░░░░░░░░░ Mar 2020 → May 2021
myTomorrows ████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ Aug 2019 → Jan 2020
Lunatech Labs ████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ Sep 2018 → Aug 2019
Innovatise ████████░░░░░░░░░░░░ Mar 2017 → Aug 2018
Qburst ████████░░░░░░░░░░░░ Jul 2015 → Mar 2017
Old laptops do not retire - they run Proxmox.
I run a compact homelab on repurposed machines with 70+ containers across self-hosted services. It is my playground to break things safely, test ideas fast, and keep learning.
Now building
📺 Random Video Clips Streaming Server
A fully containerized IPTV-style stream that continuously shuffles short clips into a never-ending HLS channel, with independent background audio and a Flutter TV/Web client.
Read the build story on LinkedIn.
Infrastructure should be boring. Incidents should be rare. Deployments should be invisible.