experience
15+ yrs
in IT, the last 8 running cloud operations at LiSEC Austria
Available Consulting Leadership roles UAE
Anoobis Bhaskaran OpenTelemetry & Observability Consultant
I help engineering teams build OpenTelemetry-native observability platforms and cut the operational and financial cost of running cloud and monitoring environments.
- FinOps
- Datadog
- OpenObserve
- AKS
- Terraform
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observability
OTel-native
traces, metrics & logs through one vendor-neutral pipeline
finops
Cost clarity
attribution, showback, and telemetry-volume & retention tuning
devops · platform
GitOps + IaC
Flux, Terraform & OIDC-based CI/CD across Azure and AWS
the approach
Instrument once. Choose any backend.
A vendor-neutral OpenTelemetry pipeline — the backend is a choice, not a lock-in.
- 01 Apps / Infra .NET, Java, Kubernetes
- 02 OTel SDKs instrument once
- 03 Collectors agent → gateway
- 04 Process enrich, filter, tail-sample
- 05 Backends Datadog, OpenObserve, Grafana
apps → sdk → collector → process → backend
how I can help
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 LiSECFinOps & 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, LiSECAKS & 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 ADRGitOps & 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 templatesInfrastructure 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 /workTypical 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
certifications & training
Held means held.
Every status is stated exactly as it stands — nothing rounded up.
- AZ-400 DevOps Engineer Expert Microsoft Certified held
- AZ-500 Azure Security Engineer Associate Microsoft Certified held
- FinOps FinOps Foundation FinOps Foundation training completed
- OTCA OpenTelemetry Certified Associate Linux Foundation / CNCF in progress
contact
Let's make your telemetry cheaper and more useful.
Open to cloud architecture and infrastructure leadership roles, and to consulting or advisory engagements on observability, FinOps, and Kubernetes platforms. Based in the UAE.