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abhiyerra

हाथ बज्र औ ध्वजा बिराजै
A thunderbolt in one hand and the flag of dharma in the other.

-Hanuman Chalisa

Mission​

My mission is to build businesses that address the needs of the underprivileged, while binding myself and my work to the tenets of Dharma.

Thesis​

The world is being reshaped and the new world order is being birthed. Until 2040 there will be chaos and disorder as the new world order takes shape. This disorder will result in quite a few changes. The world is headed toward the Rebirth of the American Republic, Greater Israel and Bharat as the new Powers.

  1. American Republic

    The American Empire is at its apex, but it is also starting to fail like the British Empire before it. The country has immense debt, social conflicts, wealth inequality and techno-feudalism as driving forces. Externally, the rise of BRICs including the manufacturing power of China, military power of Russia and Israel, and India’s white collar power creates alternates to America.

    When the American Empire collapses the American Republic will be reborn. Like all collapses it will trigger a realignment. The existing parts of the empire will transfer to new powers, and America itself will go through massive upheavals.

    Once this happens I believe that United States will reject its old identity and will build a new foundation on either a Catholic or Yoga foundation.

  2. Greater Israel

    Israel has a goal of Greater Israel and that this will happen. It won't be pretty and Israel will piss off a lot of countries, but it will happen. Unfortunately, for this to happen will require the collapse of the American Empire. As part of this Israel and Bharat will become closer. Israel will use Bharat as its manufacturing base and there will be mutual development of technology.

  3. Bharat

    India will shed its secular identity and will be reborn as Bharat, a Hindu Republic. It is only when this happens that it will march forward with a singular identity into the world. The irony of this situation is while the West will become more dharmic, India will become more Abrahamic as it consolidates its Hindu identity into a structure similar to that of Christianity and Islam.

    Once this has happened and Bharat fully embraces its Dharmic identity it will move to spread that identity in a peaceful manner. This along with the wealth it will generate will lead to a realignment. What this means also is that Bharat may not be an economic power per se, but a strong military one.

Will there be losers in this new world? Of course. No new world order emerges without losers and I believe that the two biggest losers will be China and Islam. China will lose because it is running out of people and is aligning itself with destabilizing elements. Islam will use because most Islamic countries are dependent on a globalized world where food and resources can be moved to areas that can't support the number of people that they contain. Either way, these regimes will struggle. Whether, this is correct or not is not for me to judge but what I see as the movement of converging forces.

Ventures​

opsZero​

April 2016 – Present — CEO / Founder

  • Started a DevOps consulting firm that has setup and migrated Kubernetes infrastructure for startups.
  • Focused primarily in the healthcare, finance and enterprise space with high compliance requirements.
  • Companies we have worked with include PicnicHealth, Lattice, Posthaven, Emburse, Akido Labs, Bridg, Envkey, Floydhub, HumanInterest, TractionGuest, Riviera Partners, and Counterpart.
  • Implemented sales strategy and processes to grow company repeatably.
  • Setup Quarterly OKRs and Weekly Sprints to attain KPIs.
  • Manage team which includes sales, coding, finance and administration.
  • Completely bootstrapped and has been remote first from the beginning.
  • Spent 2020 building internal software to create repeatable processes to scale company execution.
  • Executing on productizing this software to help other Operations and Development agencies scale.
  • Executing on a Serverless Code offering focused on building code for AWS Lambda using Crowdsourcing.

Startup Sonoma County​

April 2018 – June 2020 — Director / Co-Founder

  • Started Co-working space in Santa Rosa, CA with two co-founders.
  • Handled Government Regulations to ensure space was compliance with law.
  • Handled Operations, Sales, Legal and Finance.
  • Shutdown due to Covid-19 and a physical disaster at the space.

Work​

VSCO​

April 2015 – March 2016 — Software Engineer (DevOps)

  • Worked on the DevOps team helping to standardize deployments and infrastructure.
  • Used Hashicorp tools to standardize the infrastructure.
  • Used Packer to build AWS AMIs used in production.
  • Used Consul to create a Feature Flagging system called Decider.
  • Used Terraform to generate Infrastructure.
  • Standardized on Vagrant for local development.
  • Severely reduced the need for Chef by moving lot of packaging to Docker.
  • Made Docker the standard packaging mechanism making it easier for DevOps to handle deployment.
  • Created Custom Scripts in Go called Tacoma which standardized deployments and access to systems for all engineers.
  • Standardized deployment of Machine Learning models via Caffe.
  • Implemented Linux server optimizations to handle high traffic while reducing costs.
  • Scaled MongoDB to handle high traffic.

Lookout​

February 2012 – April 2015 — Senior Software Engineer

  • Built tooling around Vagrant to help speed up local development.
  • Worked in Chef to bootstrap staging environments for a new Enterprise product.
  • Built tooling around Storm to improve visibility into operational issues.
  • Contributed to code reviews and agile issue triage.
  • Worked on the billing team incorporating carrier payments into a Rails backend.
  • Helped structure the codebase to support multiple payment backends generating tens of millions in revenue.
  • Helped separate a monolithic Rails application into a dedicated billing service.
  • Acted as a liaison between engineering groups including Operations and Core Infrastructure.
  • Collaborated with carrier developers on integrations.
  • Contributed to multiple hackathons resulting in patent filings.
  • Helped grow the team from three members to ten members.
  • Recruited and mentored interns.

SpeakerText/Humanoid​

June 2011 – January 2012 — Software Engineer

  • Hired as engineer #2 to work on the Rails backend for a crowdsourcing application.
  • Introduced engineering processes around Git branching and issue tracking.
  • Created the REST API used by customers to submit crowdsourcing tasks.
  • Helped implement a workflow engine for arbitrary crowdsourcing tasks.
  • Built worker metrics infrastructure using MongoDB and Redis.
  • Mentored four summer interns.
  • Built administrative interfaces for workers, customers, and tasks.
  • Helped create worker feedback and happiness processes.

CloudCrowd​

October 2010 – May 2011 — Software Engineer

  • Developed finite-state-machine and workflow systems for a crowdsourcing platform.
  • Worked on Ruby on Rails and Sinatra applications using DataMapper.
  • Wrote automated tests using RSpec and Cucumber.
  • Focused primarily on the Serv.io product line.
  • Worked within a small agile team shipping weekly releases.

Plutoz.com​

March 2010 – July 2010 — Lead Developer / Consultant

  • Developed an ecommerce search and recommendation engine.
  • Configured a 20-node Nutch/Hadoop cluster using Puppet.
  • Built a Ruby on Rails application for managing crawl infrastructure.
  • Created a distributed crawler using Cassandra and Redis.
  • Built Hadoop jobs to populate a sharded Solr cluster.
  • Extended Solr query scoring with custom parsing.
  • Migrated legacy PHP applications to Rails running on JRuby and Java.
  • Deployed applications using Tomcat and nginx.
  • Led developers across the U.S., India, and Vietnam.

i5labs​

December 2007 – November 2009 — Web Developer / Consultant

  • Solved Internet Explorer CSS and JavaScript compatibility issues.
  • Contributed components to the Radiant CMS ecosystem.
  • Modified ZXing-based iPhone applications for QR code ticket scanning.
  • Built recruiter-performance analytics software for Riviera Partners.
  • Reverse engineered Maxhire CRM integrations.

WordNetworks​

July 2007 – August 2007 — Intern

  • Prototyped textual analysis software using Erlang and Mnesia.
  • Created Amazon EC2 operating system images.

Berkeley Law​

October 2006 – October 2007 — Student Web Application Developer

  • Developed web applications for event coordination and student examinations.
  • Refactored and extended legacy codebases.

University of California Press​

October 2005 – November 2006 — Tech Assistant

  • Built an intranet by heavily customizing ExpressionEngine.
  • Developed Python automation tools for Information Systems and Helpdesk teams.

Volunteer​

Open Source​

  • Personal projects, scripts, and open source contributions.

Patents​

  • US 20140128047 A1 — System and method for call blocking and SMS blocking
  • US 20140349625 A1 — System and method for mobile communications blocking based on crowd sourced information

Education​

University of California, Berkeley​

History, B.A. August 2005–May 2010

Languages​

  • English (Native)
  • Telugu (Native)

Interests​

Reading​

Travel​

Contact​