anoobis bhaskaran

OpenTelemetry & Observability Consultant

FinOps | Datadog | OpenObserve | AKS | Terraform

I help engineering teams design modern, OpenTelemetry-native observability platforms and reduce the operational and financial cost of running cloud and monitoring environments. My focus sits at the intersection of OpenTelemetry architecture, Azure/AKS platform engineering, Datadog/Grafana/OpenObserve, and FinOps cost optimization — built on 14+ years in IT, the last 8 running cloud operations at LiSEC Austria.

Apps / Infra → OTel SDKs → OTel Collectors → Process / Enrich / Sample → Datadog / OpenObserve / Grafana

Vendor-neutral instrumentation — the backend is a choice, not a lock-in.

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Two specializations, backed by a platform engineering foundation.

OpenTelemetry & observability architecture

OTel Collector design, deployment, and troubleshooting — agent/gateway topologies, resource attributes and service naming standards, telemetry filtering and sampling. Kubernetes / AKS observability, plus .NET and Java instrumentation strategy. Migrating teams off proprietary monitoring agents onto an OTel-native pipeline.

grounded in: org-wide OTel rollout across on-prem and AKS at LiSEC

FinOps & cost optimization

Azure cost analysis, attribution, and chargeback/showback models. AKS cost visibility, Datadog license and host optimization, telemetry-volume and log-retention tuning, cardinality analysis, and infrastructure right-sizing.

grounded in: APM Enterprise host cost reduction + Azure cost attribution model, LiSEC

AKS & Kubernetes platform engineering

Provisioning and hardening AKS clusters — workload identity, networking and ingress, multi-region cluster management, RBAC and infrastructure security across a multi-region SaaS architecture.

grounded in: multi-region AKS operations; led NGINX→Traefik/Istio ingress migration ADR

GitOps & CI/CD

FluxCD-based GitOps delivery, and CI/CD pipeline design across Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and GitHub Actions — including supply-chain hardening (vulnerability scanning, SBOM generation) on shared pipeline templates.

grounded in: Trivy + CycloneDX SBOM rollout across the NG platform's CI templates

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform and Terragrunt module design for real multi-environment, and where needed multi-cloud, estates — CI-driven plan/apply workflows with OIDC auth instead of stored credentials.

grounded in: Terraform/Terragrunt across Azure and AWS, see /work

typical engagements

  • OpenTelemetry architecture review & OTel implementation for Kubernetes / AKS
  • Datadog → OpenTelemetry modernization; Datadog cost optimization
  • Azure / AKS FinOps assessment; cloud cost attribution & chargeback model design
  • Grafana / OpenObserve implementation; AKS observability assessment
  • Vendor-neutral observability roadmap for enterprise platforms

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certifications & training

  • Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400) held
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500) held
  • FinOps Foundation training completed
  • OpenTelemetry Certified Associate (OTCA) in progress

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Open to cloud architecture and infrastructure leadership roles, and to consulting or advisory engagements on observability, FinOps, and Kubernetes platforms. Based in the UAE.