About Let's Crack IT With KD
Real production lessons from the trenches of Cloud, SRE, and DevOps
Who is Kalpesh Dalavi (KD)?
I'm Kalpesh Dalavi, a seasoned DevOps & Site Reliability Engineerand Federated Architect specializing in cloud-native solutions and AI-driven infrastructure automation.
With extensive experience across AWS and Google Cloud Platform, I've architected and maintained mission-critical production systems serving millions of users worldwide. My expertise spans from traditional infrastructure to cutting-edge federated architectures and AI-integrated DevOps workflows.
I've navigated countless production incidents, scaled systems from startup to enterprise level, and implemented SRE practices that have dramatically improved system reliability and team efficiency. Now I'm sharing these battle-tested insights through real-world scenarios and practical guidance.
Specializations
Core Technologies
My Mission
Through "Let's Crack IT With KD," I bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and production reality. Every tutorial, incident analysis, and architectural deep-dive is based on real-world experiences - the kind of knowledge you can only gain by managing production systems at scale.
Professional Expertise
AWS Expertise
- • Multi-account strategy & federated access
- • EKS, ECS, and container orchestration
- • Lambda & serverless architectures
- • RDS, DynamoDB, and data management
- • CloudFormation & AWS CDK
Google Cloud Mastery
- • GKE and Cloud Run deployments
- • BigQuery and data analytics
- • Cloud Functions & event-driven architecture
- • IAM and security best practices
- • Terraform and GCP automation
SRE & DevOps
- • Incident response & post-mortems
- • SLO/SLI definition & monitoring
- • Chaos engineering & resilience testing
- • GitOps and deployment strategies
- • Team culture & on-call practices
Federated Architecture & AI
- • Cross-cloud federation strategies
- • AI-driven infrastructure automation
- • Distributed system design
- • Machine learning ops (MLOps)
- • Intelligent monitoring & alerting
What You'll Learn
Cloud Architecture
Master AWS & GCP services, design scalable solutions, and implement best practices for cloud-native applications.
SRE Practices
Learn reliability engineering principles, incident management, and how to build robust systems that scale.
DevOps Automation
Implement CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automation strategies for efficient deployments.
Our Mission
Empowering the next generation of cloud engineers and SRE professionals through practical, hands-on learning experiences that bridge the gap between theory and real-world applications.
“The best way to predict the future of infrastructure is to build it yourself.”
Technical Achievements
Multi-Cloud Federation Architecture
Designed and implemented federated authentication across AWS and GCP using custom OIDC providers, reducing cross-cloud latency by 40% and enabling seamless workload portability.
Zero-Downtime Deployment Pipeline
Built GitOps-driven CI/CD pipeline with blue-green deployments, automated rollbacks, and chaos engineering integration. Achieved 99.99% uptime across 50+ microservices.
Intelligent Monitoring System
Developed ML-powered anomaly detection using custom metrics correlation. Reduced false alerts by 85% and detected issues 10 minutes faster than traditional thresholds.
Serverless Edge Computing
Architected edge computing solution using Lambda@Edge and Cloud Functions, reducing API response times by 60% globally while cutting infrastructure costs by 35%.
Zero-Trust Network Architecture
Implemented comprehensive zero-trust security model with service mesh, certificate automation, and policy-as-code. Achieved SOC2 Type II compliance.
The Mission
Too many engineers learn from sanitized tutorials that skip the messy reality of production. My mission is to bridge that gap—teaching the skills, mindset, and practices you need to build and maintain systems that actually work when it matters.