Chimbu Chinnadurai
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Senior Cloud Architect II
☸️ Battle-tested Kubernetes Operator 🤫
United Kingdom
I've probably debugged a Kubernetes issue in more time zones than I care to count. Based in London, I help engineering teams across EMEA get their clusters to behave — and actually understand why they misbehaved in the first place.
I write, speak, and guest on podcasts about all things cloud-native. Away from the terminal: I enjoy cooking almost as much as simplifying overly complex systems.
- Kubernetes
- GCP
- AWS
- Kubestronaut
- Cloud Native
- Networking
- AI
- DevOps
- FinOps
My Certifications
AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty
AWS (last renewed/obtained: Jan 11, 2020)
Renewable as of January 11, 2023
CNCF Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
CNCF (last renewed/obtained: Feb 2, 2026)
Expires Feb 2, 2028
CNCF Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
CNCF (last renewed/obtained: Feb 9, 2026)
Expires Feb 9, 2028
CNCF Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
CNCF (last renewed/obtained: Mar 16, 2025)
Expires Mar 16, 2027
CNCF Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate
CNCF (last renewed/obtained: Apr 14, 2024)
Expires Apr 14, 2027
CNCF Kubernetes and Cloud Security Associate (KCSA)
CNCF (last renewed/obtained: Apr 23, 2024)
Expires Apr 23, 2027
CNCF Kubestronaut
CNCF (last renewed/obtained: Apr 29, 2024)
Expires Dec 31, 2034
CNCF Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA)
CNCF (last renewed/obtained: Oct 4, 2022)
Renewable as of October 4, 2025
Tetrate Certified Istio Administrator
CNCF (last renewed/obtained: Nov 9, 2022)
Renewable as of November 8, 2025
Google Cloud Authorized Trainer
Google (last renewed/obtained: Oct 25, 2022)
Expires Dec 31, 2049
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
Google (last renewed/obtained: Dec 30, 2025)
Expires Dec 30, 2027
Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
Google (last renewed/obtained: Jan 22, 2026)
Expires Jan 22, 2028
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Network Engineer
Google (last renewed/obtained: Jun 1, 2026)
Expires Jun 1, 2028
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer
Google (last renewed/obtained: Mar 11, 2024)
Renewable as of April 1, 2026
Hashicorp Certified Terraform Associate
Hashicorp (last renewed/obtained: Aug 21, 2023)
Renewable as of August 21, 2025
Hashicorp Certified Vault Associate
Hashicorp (last renewed/obtained: Feb 10, 2023)
Renewable as of February 10, 2025
Hashicorp Certified Vault Operations Professional
Hashicorp (last renewed/obtained: Feb 10, 2023)
Expires Dec 31, 2050
Other Certificate
Other (last renewed/obtained: Mar 6, 2024)
Expires Mar 6, 2027
What my customers say
Chimbu quickly identified the issue we were seeing following Googles recent changes to session lifetimes and assisted us efficiently in implementing an ACM policy to override the restrictions introduced by Google.
flooid.com · Aug 2026
What I'm writing
GKE Active Buffer: Eliminate Node Provisioning Delays
GKE's new Active Buffer feature eliminates node provisioning delays by maintaining warm capacity, reducing scale-out latency from minutes to seconds.
Kubernetes DRA GPU Scheduling: End Node Hunting for AI Workloads
Kubernetes DRA eliminates manual GPU node hunting by introducing intelligent, request-based allocation for complex AI workloads with mixed hardware requirements.
GKE Upgrades: How Rollout Sequencing Makes Upgrades Predictable and Safe
Back in the early days of Kubernetes, managing just one cluster felt like a full-time job. Now, platform engineers in large organizations…
What I've open-sourced
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ChimbuChinnadurai/gcp-keda-gke-event-driven-autoscaling-demo
Built after explaining KEDA one too many times in customer calls.
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ChimbuChinnadurai/gke-gcp-grpc-gateway-api-with-istio
gRPC server streaming service running on GKE with istio sidecar
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ChimbuChinnadurai/terraform-aws-gcp-multicloud
Because 'multi-cloud' sounds great in boardrooms but gets chaotic the second routing enters the chat.
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ChimbuChinnadurai/trading212-ISA-portfolio-tracker.git
A full-featured web application that fetches your Shares ISA positions from the Trading212 API and displays them in a rich, interactive dashboard.
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doitintl/aws-eks-sample-templates
Templates for spinning up EKS Lens via Helm, minus the configuration headaches.
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ChimbuChinnadurai/gitlab-oidc-with-gcp-workload-identity-federation
The secure, passwordless blueprint for authenticating GitLab CI/CD pipelines with GCP using WIP
Webinars I've hosted
Istio Ambient Mesh GA: Sidecar-less Service Mesh on Kubernetes
Top Kubernetes Updates of 2024: Gateway API, Pod Resizing, and More
Scaling Kubernetes Workloads with KEDA Event-Driven Autoscaling
Customers I've helped
PlayHQ Optimizes Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Costs
“Every customer has unique usage patterns. Manual resource optimization simply didn't scale—we needed automation to ensure every customer, regardless of size, had right-sized infrastructure without consuming our team's capacity.”
— Brad Quinn, Lead Platform Engineer, PlayHQ
Optimove cuts execution times by up to 60%
“We are thrilled with DoiT International's expertise to migrate Optimove to Google Cloud with ease and efficiency. Their expert guidance and seamless migration allowed us to scale our services effortlessly and focus on what we do best – delivering emotionally intelligent marketing interactions.”
— Amir Gabay, VP of Technical Operations
Talks I've given
Unlock Powerful Progressive Delivery with Gateway API and Argo rollouts
K8SUG UK Meetup · London, UK · Aug 28, 2024
Simplified and Cost-Efficient GKE Node Management with NAP
PerfectScale · Remote · May 22, 2025
ILT - Google Kubernetes Engine(GKE)
Google Cloud (Authorized Trainer) · Jan 1, 2025
ILT - Google Cloud Fundamentals
Google Cloud (Authorized Trainer) · Feb 1, 2024
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Applied FinOps Show
Field notes from FinOps practitioners on engineering pushback, stalled savings, and allocation models that break under real multicloud workloads.
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What customers are saying
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Diego was very helpful, reply was quick, detailed and really on point!
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Matt was extremely quick to triage and get a ticket opened with Google.
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Yuval was knowledgeable and helpful. Clear, direct, concise communication (much better than GCP's own support). Appreciate the fast replies. Really appreciate that Doit has experts available.
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Very helpful guidance which helped me resolve the issue.
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Joseph did a great job assessing our needs on this questions. He also looked at our system and then validated that our RDS instance in this case had plenty of head room so that we go ahead and increase the max connections. Which was just what we needed.
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I was happy with the support. Quick responses and actual verification of the issues that I reported.
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I'm very happy of the support. Really quick responses, relevant infromation,supportive.
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appriciate the prompt support given by the team and followup on the matter by owning it.
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The support was excellent, and Dustin's follow-ups were fantastic. Glad we identified the problem. Thanks!
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Brian has continued to be a great help to us
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Very detailed answer and to the point.
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Quick initial reply from the support with on call engineer, and detailled follow up. Thanks
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The technical support was good but I could have done without the sales pitch. GCP needs to provide better feedback than just saying it's unavailable. I've never had that happen w/ AWS.
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I use homebrew for work and personal purposes
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Had a very good discussion regarding possible cost optimizations that we can make
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Paul, his team and AWS worked quite in cohesion with us to get this in a form factor which helped us evaluate much deeper and ensure our checks are done well in order for the account migration to be completed successfully without any major business impacts.
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Google is just way too slow. In opinion it shouldn't take weeks for them to identify that the root case is a simple quota indexing bump.
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pointed out the configuration issue clearly
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The DoiT specialist was very kind, knowledgeable, and provided detailed responses both during our call and in the follow-up written communication.
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