{ "info": { "name": "Umang Bhalla", "location": "(@mumbai, india)[https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mumbai,+Maharashtra]", "profession": "systems engineer", "born": "spring 2001", "socials": { "github": "(@umgbhalla)[https://github.com/umgbhalla]", "x": "(@umgbhalla)[https://x.com/umgbhalla]", "discord": "(@umgbhalla)[https://discord.com/users/umgbhalla]", "linkedin": "(@umgbhalla)[https://linkedin.com/in/umgbhalla]", "hackernews": "(@umgbhalla)[https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=umgbhalla]", "huggingface": "(@umgbhalla)[https://huggingface.co/umgbhalla]" } }, "timezone": "gmt+5:30", "expertise": [ "harness engineering", "automation", "infrastructure", "system design", "mlops", "observability", "data warehousing" ], "work": [ { "year": "2026 march - present", "company": "zonko.ai", "role": "ai engineer", "location/hq": "(@mumbai, india)[https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mumbai,+Maharashtra]", "work": [ "agents, infrastructure, and robotics", "fde for enterprise clients: turned business requirements and product feedback into integration strategies, shaping the harbor and luffy roadmap", "building (@luffy)[https://luffy.so], an ai coworker for knowledge-work teams — workspace context, skills, reusable scripts, and persistent execution; runtime architected on cloudflare workers and sandboxes with isolated agent sessions for long-running, compute-heavy work", "building (@harbor)[https://tryharbor.ai], an ai workbench giving agents unified access to mcp servers, apis, and cli tools — plugin runtime on cloudflare workers and ai gateway with tool discovery, oauth, secrets management, policy enforcement, and model routing", "designed harbor's codemode execution layer: agents orchestrate tools by writing js/ts instead of emitting flat tool calls — composing, chaining, and reusing tools across multi-step workflows" ], "tech": [ ".*" ] }, { "year": "2025 oct - 2026 march", "company": "upsurge", "role": "systems engineer", "location/hq": "(@bangalore, india)[https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bangalore,+Karnataka]", "work": [ "new systems, infrastructure, web3, and robotics", "built and shipped (@bhindi.io)[https://bhindi.io], (@moltx.io)[https://moltx.io], (@anannas.ai)[https://anannas.ai], and (@mogra.xyz)[https://mogra.xyz]", "initial devops and infrastructure work for (@openbio.tech)[https://openbio.tech]", "robotics projects assisting helium", "santra: ai-powered hardware device to talk to your agent on the go, with companion app, integrations, and long-term memory", "wrote firmware for xiao seed ble and optimized bluetooth comm for fast transcription on santra", "built infrastructure for solana-powered applications running agave validator", "self-hosted infrastructure for lido and hoodi nodes", "deployed ethereum reth full node with monitoring infrastructure" ], "tech": [ ".*" ] }, { "year": "2024 april - 2025 oct", "company": "newengen.com", "role": [ "sre 1", "sre 2" ], "location/hq": "remote/us", "work": [ "migrated infrastructure from gcp cloud run to kubernetes", "optimized infrastructure reducing compute cloud spend by 80%", "designed istio service mesh infrastructure for kubernetes native api gateway and ingress", "implemented custom api authentication layer with firebase integration across all endpoints", "automated ci/cd pipelines for 50+ microservices with gitops implementation", "designed and built internal tool and infrastructure for campaign, ads, and adset level taxonomy collection", "designed and implemented llm agent systems for marketing analytics, report generation, and trend analysis on 2+tb bigquery data", "built transformer-based recommendation system for taxonomy tool including training pipeline, model refresh cycles, and evaluation systems", "developed internal dev tools for model training and rollout, agent evaluations, and secret management" ], "tech": [ "kubernetes", "gcp", "istio", "firebase", "python", "bash", "prometheus", "grafana", "pytorch", "qdrant" ] }, { "year": "2023 july - 2024 march", "company": "reint.ai", "role": "mlops consultant", "location/hq": "remote/(@australia)[https://www.google.com/maps/place/Australia]", "work": [ "built mlops monitoring system with version control and metric logging for internal model training runs", "implemented high frequency monitoring and alerting system for vms and production apis", "designed custom training infrastructure utilizing multiple gpus, spot instances, and checkpoint resumption for long training runs", "conducted ablation studies on transformer models for time series forecasting", "built logging and statistics infrastructure with elastic, logstash, and kibana" ], "tech": [ "docker", "gcp", "python", "bash", "elastic", "logstash", "kibana", "pytorch", "autotrain", "clearml" ] }, { "year": "2022 may - 2023 june", "company": "bytelearn.com", "role": "devops consultant", "location/hq": "remote/(@india)[https://www.google.com/maps/place/India]", "work": [ "optimized aws infrastructure achieving 77% reduction in annual cloud spend", "migrated infrastructure to kubernetes", "migrated cloud infrastructure from aws to gcp", "integrated opentelemetry for distributed tracing and monitoring", "implemented high availability monitoring and observability stack with opentelemetry, promscale, tsdb, grafana, and prometheus", "deployed multi-node mysql and postgres clusters with perconadb", "managed ci/cd pipelines and uptime for 30+ services", "automated testing environment setup and deployment", "conducted security and compliance audits for gcp and kubernetes environments" ], "tech": [ "kubernetes", "argocd", "docker", "gcp", "python", "bash", "prometheus", "grafana", "mysql", "postgres", "perconadb", "redis", "tsdb" ] } ], "projects": [ { "name": "(@desmos)[https://github.com/umgbhalla/desmos]", "about": "self-modifying coding-agent harness: python kernel, rust tui, durable sqlite state, subagents, verification and rollback, cross-platform release infrastructure" }, { "name": "(@rlmcode)[https://github.com/umgbhalla/rlmcode]", "about": "dynamic agent orchestration with model-authored javascript workflows: parallel agents, pipelines, judging, effect v4, bun, opentelemetry" }, { "name": "(@modal-media-infra)[https://github.com/umgbhalla/modal-media-infra]", "about": "gpu inference infrastructure for stt, tts, and multimodal understanding: benchmarking, modal memory snapshots, batching, scale-to-zero, cost tracking", "status": "experiment" }, { "name": "(@secure-repl)[https://github.com/umgbhalla/secure-repl]", "about": "secure execution for agent-authored javascript: deny-network modal vm sandboxes, package bundling, durable park and resume", "status": "experiment" } ], "education": [ { "year": "2020 - 2024", "degree": "bachelor of Technology", "major": "information technology", "institution": "indian institute of information technology, bhopal", "location": "bhopal, madhya pradesh" } ], "format_source": "curl https://umgbhalla.xyz | jless" }