Saurabh Ahuja

Hi, I’m Saurabh Ahuja 👋

Principal Engineer · Cloud & Infrastructure · Open Source Contributor

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👨‍💻 About Me

I am a Principal Engineer with 15+ years of experience designing, building, and operating reliable infrastructure across public cloud, private cloud, and on-prem environments.

My work focuses on:

• building boring but dependable systems,
• reducing operational and lifecycle risk,
• improving maintainability and clarity,
• and contributing responsibly to open source within governed ecosystems.

I value long-term stability, clear boundaries, and sustainable engineering practices over short-term speed or hype.

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🏢 Current Role

Principal Member of Technical Staff
Oracle · RACPACK MAA Solution Engineering
Bangalore, India

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🧠 Areas of Focus

• Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering
• Kubernetes & Container Platforms
• Operator & Automation Design
• Reliability, Observability, and Operations
• CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code
• Open Source contribution with strong governance and review discipline

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🛠️ Core Technologies

Languages

• Go
• Python
• Shell
• Java

Infrastructure & Platforms

• Kubernetes
• Docker / Podman
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Linux (Oracle Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu)

Cloud

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• AWS (selected services)

Databases

• Oracle Database (RAC, 23ai, Sharding)
• MySQL
• Redis

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🌱 Currently Deepening

• Kubernetes operator patterns
• Go for infrastructure tooling
• API design for automation systems
• Reliability-focused system design

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🎓 Learning labs for students & new engineers

I maintain a curated set of practice repositories (Go, Python, Java/Helidon, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, AI/MCP) aimed at college students and early-career engineers.

Start here → learning-path

Includes an Oracle Linux & systems track and an organizations review (Oracle + personal orgs) (official OL tutorials, UEK, containers) plus personal labs such as QEMU-on-OL9 and Podman VPN—aligned with active work on Oracle open-source container and database projects.

Tracks include workshops, small APIs, Helidon microservices labs, and cloud/IaC samples. Labs are being improved with clearer READMEs over time.

🤝 Collaboration Philosophy

I collaborate on projects that value:

• clear ownership and governance,
• thoughtful reviews over rushed changes,
• long-term maintainability,
• respectful, low-noise communication.

I prefer contributing as a reviewer, stabilizer, or documentation and quality improver rather than high-visibility evangelism.

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📂 Selected Open Source Work (Oracle OSS)

• Oracle Database Operator
  https://operatorhub.io/operator/oracle-database-operator

• oracle/docker-images
  Official Oracle Docker images
  https://github.com/oracle/docker-images

• oracle/oracle-database-operator
  Kubernetes operator for Oracle Database
  https://github.com/oracle/oracle-database-operator

• oracle/db-sharding
  Oracle Database Sharding reference implementations
  https://github.com/oracle/db-sharding —

📚 Product Documentation & Technical Publications

In addition to engineering and open-source work, I contribute to official Oracle product documentation and cloud architecture guidance.

• Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation Guide – Podman / Oracle Linux
  Official Oracle Database documentation
  https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/26/racpd/oracle-real-application-clusters-installation-guide-podman-oracle-linux.pdf

• Installing and Configuring Oracle RAC on Oracle Linux Cloud Native Environment (OLCNE)
  Oracle Database 19c documentation
  https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/rackb/install-configure-rac-olcne.html

• Deploying Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) on Compute Cloud @ Customer / PCA
  Oracle Cloud Infrastructure technical whitepaper
  https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/cloud/deploying-oke-on-compute-cloud@customer-or-pca.pdf

My contributions focus on deployment architecture, lifecycle management, containerized database patterns, and operational reliability. —

🎓 Education

B.E. in Information Technology
Punjab Engineering College (PEC), Chandigarh
2005 – 2009

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🧭 Engineering Ethos

I believe good software engineering is quiet, predictable, and kind to the people who will maintain it years later.

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” — Albert Einstein