Yogesh Lonkar

Yogesh Lonkar

Platform · CI · Migration

Platform engineering for teams that have outgrown ad-hoc CI, runner sprawl and wiki-ops. Kubernetes, GitOps, developer platforms and the migrations that get you there, designed, built and operated by the person you talk to.

No bench, no handoff. The person on the call is the person in the cluster.

Taking a small number of contracts

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Contracted through ICF Computers, Pune

What you are hiring

14 yrs

One Engineer, Not a Bench

Kubernetes, Terraform and cloud-native architecture, learned by running them. The person you talk to is the person who does the work.

Public

Work You Can Read

Go libraries, GitHub Actions other teams run in their pipelines, and a protoc plugin that generates Terraform provider code. All public, so you can judge the code before the call.

DORA

Measured, Not Asserted

Deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate and restore time. I take the same four readings before and after, and say so when the work is not moving them.

What I Do

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Platform Engineering

Teams whose own infrastructure has become the thing slowing them down, usually around the point where three or more teams deploy independently with different tooling.

Golden paths · GitOps · DORA you can read

CI/CD & Release Engineering

Teams who can describe exactly why they do not deploy on a Friday, and would like that reason to stop being true.

Safer Friday deploys · Fewer pipeline exceptions · A rollback that has been run

Cloud & Tooling Migration

Teams moving off on-premises hardware, or off a tool they have outgrown, who want the cloud-native version rather than the same servers in a different building.

Staged cutovers · Nexus and SCM exits · Nothing moves without a rollback

Architecture Review & Due Diligence

Teams facing a decision nobody wants to own, and buyers who need to know what they are acquiring before they sign.

A decision you can act on · Evidence before recommendation

Internal Tooling & Platform Automation

Teams where the platform exists but the last mile is manual, and the person who knows the steps is the bottleneck.

The last mile automated · Handed over, not hoarded

Product companies of roughly 30 to 200 engineers where infrastructure or CI has become the bottleneck.

  • Several deploy styles and nobody sure which is current
  • Runner sprawl, or a fleet of snowflake build machines
  • No platform team, or one that is three people and underwater
  • A Backstage or developer portal push that stalled

Work I will point you somewhere better for, rather than take.

  • Staff augmentation measured in tickets closed
  • A long-term junior bench
  • Greenfield consumer apps
  • Anything where nobody internal will own it afterwards

More of the code, and more of the change volume, now comes from AI-assisted development. The platform has to hold the same DORA bar with tighter guardrails, which is a platform problem rather than an AI one.

How to Engage

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Fixed-Price Project

Defined scope, budget & timeline. Milestone payments.

Monthly Retainer

Dedicated hours per month. Priority access, ongoing ops.

Advisory

Architecture reviews & strategic guidance. No lock-in.

Is this the work you need?

Tell me what you are running and what is slowing you down. I reply within one business day, and I will say so if this is not work I should take.