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Hi, I’m Jivan Pal, a highly experienced DevOps, software, networking, and systems reliability engineer (SRE). I’m a Linux sysadmin and full-stack developer with hands-on experience across a wide range of technologies. I excel in building scalable, secure, production-grade systems in cloud and on-prem environments, with proven skills in containerization, automation, CI/CD, observability, and networking. I’ve led migrations, built robust infrastructure, and mentored others, all while focusing on pragmatic, business-minded solutions. Since mid-2023 I’ve been on a sabbatical focused on family, personal projects, and running a homelab, including a K3s cluster and a production-grade web stack, with IPv6-only networking and 3-2-1 backups.…Hi, I’m Jivan Pal, a highly experienced DevOps, software, networking, and systems reliability engineer (SRE). I’m a Linux sysadmin and full-stack developer with hands-on experience across a wide range of technologies. I excel in building scalable, secure, production-grade systems in cloud and on-prem environments, with proven skills in containerization, automation, CI/CD, observability, and networking. I’ve led migrations, built robust infrastructure, and mentored others, all while focusing on pragmatic, business-minded solutions. Since mid-2023 I’ve been on a sabbatical focused on family, personal projects, and running a homelab, including a K3s cluster and a production-grade web stack, with IPv6-only networking and 3-2-1 backups.

Jivan Pal

Full Stack Developer, Web Developer, Back-End Developer, +3

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Hi, I’m Jivan Pal, a highly experienced DevOps, software, networking, and systems reliability engineer (SRE). I’m a Linux sysadmin and full-stack developer with hands-on experience across a wide range of technologies. I excel in building scalable, secure, production-grade systems in cloud and on-prem environments, with proven skills in containerization, automation, CI/CD, observability, and networking. I’ve led migrations, built robust infrastructure, and mentored others, all while focusing on pragmatic, business-minded solutions. Since mid-2023 I’ve been on a sabbatical focused on family, personal projects, and running a homelab, including a K3s cluster and a production-grade web stack, with IPv6-only networking and 3-2-1 backups.…Hi, I’m Jivan Pal, a highly experienced DevOps, software, networking, and systems reliability engineer (SRE). I’m a Linux sysadmin and full-stack developer with hands-on experience across a wide range of technologies. I excel in building scalable, secure, production-grade systems in cloud and on-prem environments, with proven skills in containerization, automation, CI/CD, observability, and networking. I’ve led migrations, built robust infrastructure, and mentored others, all while focusing on pragmatic, business-minded solutions. Since mid-2023 I’ve been on a sabbatical focused on family, personal projects, and running a homelab, including a K3s cluster and a production-grade web stack, with IPv6-only networking and 3-2-1 backups.

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Hi, I’m Jivan Pal, a highly experienced DevOps, software, networking, and systems reliability engineer (SRE). I’m a Linux sysadmin and full-stack developer with hands-on experience across a wide range of technologies.

I excel in building scalable, secure, production-grade systems in cloud and on-prem environments, with proven skills in containerization, automation, CI/CD, observability, and networking. I’ve led migrations, built robust infrastructure, and mentored others, all while focusing on pragmatic, business-minded solutions.

Since mid-2023 I’ve been on a sabbatical focused on family, personal projects, and running a homelab, including a K3s cluster and a production-grade web stack, with IPv6-only networking and 3-2-1 backups.

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Work Experience

Sabbatical and Homelab at Self-directed / personal projects

July 1, 2023 - October 28, 2025

Taking a sabbatical to focus on family, hobbies, and building a production-grade homelab (K3s-based Kubernetes cluster, Dell T320 running XCP-ng hypervisor providing VMs and RAID-6 NAS storage, IPv6-only network using custom networking hardware, SIIT-DC using Jool, and automation via Terraform/OpenTofu and Ansible). Developing a web app in Svelte/SvelteKit for a tabletop trading card game, with a Postgres database, custom schemas, APIs, and bespoke interactive drag-and-drop features.

Backend Developer at Avid Games

October 1, 2021 - June 30, 2023

Co-administered replicated MariaDB clusters across GCP regions, managed backend services and internal tooling, and implemented public/private API functionality in Java/Jersey/JDBC. Integrated observability (Cloud Logging, uptime metrics) and deployment triggers via Jenkins, collaborating with product/design teams to deliver game features.

C Software Developer and Maintainer at Drat

October 1, 2019 - March 31, 2022

Developed a novel open-source toolset in C for APFS diagnostics, data recovery, and forensic analysis. Refactored codebase into a unified program with a shared API. Documented, engaged with, and collaborated with the community via GitHub and StackExchange. Followed semantic versioning standards and used common advanced Git workflows, including interactive rebasing and cherry-picking.

Full-stack Developer at Freelance

July 1, 2019 - August 31, 2021

Built bespoke websites and backend infrastructure for small businesses, focusing on WordPress on Linode. Implemented automation for scalable hosting, performed partial rollbacks with the aid of incremental backups to recover from problematic situations in production, and delivered custom plugins and themes.

Lead Developer at Redbrick

June 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019

Sole system administrator and developer for the University of Birmingham's student newspaper. Maintained WordPress, SMB/Samba, MariaDB, and cloud services. Created technical policy and documentation, migrated servers from Ubuntu 14.04 to 18.04, and provided 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-line support to newspaper editors and contributors.