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Thamunkpillai

Hi, I'm Thamunkpillai 👋

Platform & Cloud Engineer

I'm a technology professional who enjoys building systems, solving engineering problems, exploring new technologies, and sharing what I learn along the way.

This website is my personal technology blog and engineering journal, where I write about:

Platform EngineeringCloudAISREDevOpsObservabilityAutomation

What You'll Find Here

Platform Engineering

Platform architecture, Internal Developer Platforms, Kubernetes, developer experience, automation, and modern engineering practices.

Cloud & Infrastructure

Cloud, Infrastructure as Code, containers, GitOps, networking, and reliable infrastructure.

AI & Engineering

AI agents, MCP, AI-assisted engineering, automation, and the intersection of AI with modern systems.

SRE & Observability

Reliability, observability, monitoring, incident management, performance, and operating reliable systems.

Learning, Building & Experimenting

My personal journey of exploring technologies, building projects, testing ideas, and sharing what works, what doesn't, and what I learn along the way.

Why I Write

I believe the best way to learn is to build, experiment, break things, understand why they broke, and share the lessons.

Build. Experiment. Learn. Share. Repeat.

This site is simply a record of that journey.

My Focus

Platform Engineering × AI × SRE

I'm continuously exploring how these areas can help engineers build simpler, more reliable, secure, and productive systems.

A Personal Blog

Everything published here represents my personal learning, experiences, experiments, and opinions.

The views and content shared on this website are my own.

Let's Connect

If you're interested in Platform Engineering, Cloud, AI, SRE, DevOps, or building better engineering systems, let's connect.

Build something. Learn something. Share something.

— Thamunkpillai

Recommendations

From LinkedIn

Thamo and Myself had a very close connection at work during 2018 – 2021 time. Thamo is highly passionate about learning, exploring new areas about technology. Had seen his passion, dedication towards work, devops, cloud migration exercise. He has good insights about what he does which helped him carve his career and focus on the priorities. He has good skills to connect with multiple stakeholders at work and get the most difficult tasks done.

Above all, he is a wonderful human being…

Krishna Devan Alikkal Mohandas

Delivery Manager at Infosys

it was really nice working with Thamo, his way of thinking and helping others in many issues make him stand out. He was very supportive and helped me in learning many things during our tenure together.

Ankit Sharma

Technical Delivery Manager | Emerging Tech | GenAI | AIOps | MLOps | Agentic AI

One of the hardest working personal that I have met, he is so passionate about what he represents at career & deeply rooted with ethics, belief & honourable values.

Am so glad for the opportunity to work along !!

Sam Alex

Manager

Thamotharan is an inspiration, it is impressive his commitment to studying and learning things, always seeking the best options for every task.

He's also always willing to share his knowledge, creating a strong team.

During the time we've worked together, we've embraced a huge challenge of creating an infrastructure of a Government Tax system from scratch and he nailed it…

Chandresh Turakhia

Passionate Architect

I worked with Thamotharan from 2014 - 2015. He is a down to earth person. He loves to learn new things and he's also a motivational person to the team. From day 1 he has been extraordinary in learning new things at work. We both had our humble beginnings at Mopro (CML Media Softwares). I would definitely recommend thamu to any to the company who's looking for a great senior DevOps Developer / Manager / Software Architect.

SUBRAMANIAN Srinivasan

Full Stack Developer | Project Manager | Mentor

He is one of the most genuine and nicest guy one can come across, some of the traits which make him standout from others is his passion, hardworking and never give up attitude. Exceptional team player and valuable asset to any team.

Keep up the good work!!

Ankur Rastogi

Technical Consultant at Red Hat

I've had the pleasure of working with Thamontharan for nearly a year now at Mopro and cannot say enough great things about him. His passion for web design and technology is top notch. Thamontharan has worked on over 100+ accounts of mine, developing and composing creative ideas and concepts for clients business website initiatives along with helping me trouble shoot problems that may come up during the development process and after launch. I highly recommend Thamotharan, he would make a wonderful addition to any company.

Fahad Alshahrani

Senior Account Manager | Pharmaceutical Advertising

Thamotharan is a very talented web developer who has top of the line graphic design skills. He is always very professional and timely about making any revisions and also has a wonderful design eye. Thamotharan is a pleasure to work with and I would highly recommend him to any company.

Rosie French

Experienced eCommerce Leader