ayaan retiwala · platform engineer

i build cloud
infrastructure.

at Excloud, i built compute, block storage, managed Kubernetes, networking, identity, and the SDK, CLI, console, and Terraform provider used to run them.

selected work ↓

i spent three years building and operating Excloud's core platform alongside the engineering lead, with production ownership from day one.

Excloud

platform engineer

i owned systems end to end: VM lifecycle and host setup, SPDK/NVMe-oF storage, Kubernetes bootstrap and CSI, IAM, DNS, managed databases, and the APIs and tools used to run them.

the part i care about is failure behavior. most of the work was making partial transitions recover cleanly: reconciliation, idempotent attach/detach/resize paths, cleanup, retries, and the protocol bugs that only show up in production.

compute / storage
built the Go compute control plane over QEMU/KVM and the block storage engine on SPDK/NVMe-oF, including recovery for interrupted provisioning, attach/detach, resize, and cleanup.
clusters / network
shipped managed Kubernetes end to end: bootstrap, Cilium, CSI, Karpenter, and OIDC/JWKS, plus IAM, authoritative DNS, ARP/NDP, and the network plumbing underneath.
api / tooling
built the shared Go HTTP/OpenAPI layer and API-to-client pipeline feeding the SDK, 20-group CLI, and Terraform provider across a platform of 20+ internal services.

4,000+ accounts380 active VMs140 managed Postgres clusters20+ internal services

projects i built outside work.

DBConsole

electron · postgres

a Postgres workbench for web and macOS with streaming query results, schema graphs, destructive-query checks, history, and encrypted query sync.

CBManager

swift · appkit · sqlite

a native macOS clipboard manager with instant paste-back, OCR for copied images, local search, SQLite persistence, and 162 test methods.

Rig

react · fastify · websockets

a mobile-first console for starting and controlling coding-agent sessions on my machines, with live tool-call streaming, resume/stop controls, and WebSockets.

Tachyon

pwa · offline-first

an offline-first manga reader with downloads, auto-scroll, source adapters, AniList sync, and tests around async state and race conditions.

more projects, experiments, and unfinished stuff are on github.