My Name is Ashwin, known around the internet as cruisemaniac. I am a DevOps, Infra and Cloud engineering leader who likes to help people build, migrate and get going with their technology solutions on major cloud providers like AWS, Azure and GCP. I love working with tech - I run my own DNS and email servers.
Work
I work as a Senior DevOps engineer with the Autonomous Robotics Research Center at the Technology Innovation Institute.
Books
I’m currently shuttling between The Manager’s Path by Camille Fournier and Psycho-Cybernetics by Dr. Maxwell Maltz.
Community
I hang out a lot around twitter and a few slack groups, the most notable being Remote Indians. Its an awesome community and you should join in! I’m an AWS Community builder for the Containers category and a User group leader for the Abu Dhabi AWS User Group.
I run a Masterclass to help Engineering teams scale up on Serverless tech with AWS Fargate. Check out and sign up for my Fargate Masterclass.
Photography
I first saw a DSLR being used by a person who wasnt an event / wedding photographer back in 2006. Since then, I’ve always wanted to have one but never figured out what it meant to capture a moment. When I turned 40 last year, I decided to just chuck it and get myself a good camera. Something that I’d love carrying around town, click pictures and over the past three months, this hobby has become a form of therapy for me. I also thought as I build my collection of photos, I’d share a few. So here goes…