Led end-to-end deployment of in-house payroll platform across 6 APAC markets processing $1.2B annually. Defined technical requirements for 2 engineering teams. Coordinated payments integrations via API/SFTP with ISO 20022 XML specifications.
Cross-functional policy revamp with Legal, Compliance, and Business. Reduced 90th percentile turnaround time from 4 months to 1 month. Re-engineered verification workflows, cutting manual review time by 50%. Impacted 120K annual hires across India.
49-container self-hosted infrastructure: Caddy reverse proxy, DNSGuard local resolver, NetBird VPN, Vaultwarden, Redis, PostgreSQL, CouchDB. Full observability via Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, and Alloy. Running on bare metal—no cloud provider.
Local-first LLM orchestration on CUDA GPU. Running llama.cpp server with Open WebUI for private, on-device AI inference—no cloud APIs, no telemetry, no data leaving the box.
Self-hosted Matrix federation with full MatrixRTC voice/video via dual LiveKit servers. Twunnel federation bridges, JWT auth services, OpenClaw Gateway for AI agent orchestration. Running on cloudcitadel.in.
Self-hosted media ecosystem: Jellyfin streaming, Immich photo library with ML-powered face recognition and reverse image search, full *arr automation pipeline (Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr, Prowlarr, Bazarr), Jellystat analytics dashboard.
Jellyfin Immich PostgreSQL
Observability Stack
Full infrastructure telemetry: Grafana dashboards, Loki log aggregation, Prometheus metrics, Alloy collector, node_exporter, process_exporter, smartctl_exporter. Monitoring 49 containers and bare-metal health in real time.
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