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Shalender S.

Shalender S.

AWS Cost & Kubernetes | Self-Hosted LLMs (vLLM) | DevOps/SRE Lead

I cut cloud bills and make Kubernetes boring, in a good way. 10 years running production infrastructure, including Dream11 (India's largest fantasy sports platform) through IPL peak traffic, and currently leading a platform team of 5 at a data infrastructure SaaS company. Recent results: - Cut AWS costs by 50% (VPC split, retired Elastic Beanstalk for non-prod, static sites to S3 + CloudFront) - Led a full AWS to GCP production migration that cut cloud spend by 30% - Took P0 incidents from daily to once a quarter by overhauling the release process - Cut development cycle time by up to 50% with new CI/CD pipelines What I can do for you: - AWS cost audit: find waste in compute, storage, data transfer and commitments, with a prioritized savings plan - Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) built or fixed in Terraform, with GitOps, autoscaling and sane alerts - Self-hosted LLMs: deploy open models with vLLM on your Kubernetes, GPU autoscaling, and a clear cost-per-token comparison against your API bill - Reliability: SLOs, Prometheus/Grafana, on-call and incident processes that cut alert noise - CI/CD that ships daily without drama I work with US and EU time-zone overlap from India and reply within a few hours. Message me with your setup and I'll tell you honestly whether I can help.

🇮🇳Gurgaon, India$60/hr100% JSS4.69 (16)Since Jul 2014

Earnings and projects

MRR
$0

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#315,460 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#35,739 / 45.9k
Revenue, last 30 days
$0
Total earnings
$2.5k

Billed in all: $2.5k

World#315,460 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#35,739 / 45.9k
Per project
$112
Projects, last 6 months
0
World#209,850 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#23,217 / 45.9k
Projects in all
22

Across 35 contracts

89% fixed11% hourly
World#124,452 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#18,135 / 45.9k

Earnings, last 30 days

$2.5kNothing earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$2,425$2,450$2,475$2,500Oct 8Oct 23Nov 7

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