About

Platform engineering, infrastructure, and practical systems work.

Hello! I'm Samundra, an IT professional passionate about building and securing infrastructure. My interest in technology started back in 2013 when I took a Network Engineer course — since then, I've been hooked on everything from datacenter operations to cloud automation.

Over time, that curiosity turned into hands-on work across virtualization, security tooling, cloud platforms, and internal systems. I like technical work that creates leverage: better platforms, better tooling, cleaner operations, and fewer repetitive problems for teams.

My current work sits at the intersection of platform engineering, infrastructure operations, and product-minded R&D — especially where modern cloud workflows meet practical operational reality.

PythonTerraformDocker & KubernetesAnsibleLinux AdministrationVMware / Proxmox
Location
Patan, Lalitpur, Nepal
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Experience

Mar 2026 – Present

Senior IT Officer

Datahub Nepal

  • Research and Development
  • GPU-as-a-service
  • Managed Kubernetes Service
  • Internal Developer Platforms
Aug 2025 – Present

R&D and Platform Engineer (Part-Time)

Datahub Nepal

  • Research and Development
  • GPU-as-a-service
  • Managed Kubernetes Service
  • Internal Developer Platforms
Aug 2025 – Present

Technical Lead

Crestia Cloud

  • Infrastructure management (Azure & Datacenter)
  • Service deployment and maintenance
  • Platform development
  • Team management
Mar 2025 – Jul 2025

Sr. IT Officer

Datahub Nepal

  • Research and Development
  • Customer Support
  • Datacenter Infrastructure
  • Private/Public Cloud
  • SIEM, Linux, Windows Server, Virtualization
Nov 2023 – Feb 2025

Team Lead - Technical Support and R&D

Accessworld Tech Pvt. Ltd.

  • Manage support pipeline and escalation (SLA)
  • Supervise and train support staff
  • Self-managed Virtualization Platform (VMware, Proxmox, XCP-ng)
  • Integration between system and development teams
Aug 2021 – Nov 2023

System and Security Administrator

Accessworld Tech Pvt. Ltd.

  • Cloud provisioning and troubleshooting
  • Virtualization management
  • Backups, HA, and infrastructure
  • Email servers (Zimbra, cPanel, Axigen)
  • SIEM monitoring (McAfee ESM)
  • Datacenter infrastructure (HP, Dell, Cisco, IBM)
Jan 2019 – Aug 2021

NOC Support Engineer

Accessworld Tech Pvt. Ltd.

  • L1 Support
  • Datacenter monitoring and reporting
  • Datacenter Operations
  • Network and System troubleshooting
Feb 2018 – Jul 2022

Instructor and Developer

Mentor Institute of Technologies

  • Graphics Designing and Branding
  • Web technologies, PHP and Laravel
  • Created eKuthi - Online Learning Portal with self-hosted video sharing
Jun 2017 – Nov 2017

Web Developer and Graphics Designer

ABGroup Pvt. Ltd.

  • Graphics designing and branding
  • Website mockups
  • Front-end web development
Feb 2016 – Sep 2018

Quality Assurance (Remote)

Chromatic Games

  • Testing daily development builds
  • Bug reporting and creating reports
02

Projects

2025

Phishing Detection System

Weight-based phishing detection using ELK SIEM, multiple blacklists, and behavior analysis. Uses Rspamd for email security scanning.

2023

Infrastructure Automation & VPS Provisioning

Self-service portal API for automated VM provisioning. Interface between customer interface and infrastructure (VMware, Proxmox) similar to Linode/DigitalOcean.

2023

Mail Flow Tracker

Bash/Python system to analyze mail server logs for compromised accounts and track sender reputation. Works with Zimbra and Axigen.

2023

Homelab

Docker-based infrastructure: Nextcloud, Jellyfin, Pi-hole, game servers, self-hosted AI (Ollama), accessible via Tailscale and Cloudflare Tunnel.

2021

Network Traffic Analyzer

nfdump + Laravel application for netflow traffic analysis to determine bandwidth usage per IP.

2021

PAC Controller

Temperature-based Precision Air Conditioning control for datacenters. Laravel API with Arduino-controlled relays and sensors.

2018

Aama Health Tracking App

Angular/Ionic mobile/web application for pregnancy health tracking - Final year project.

03

Skills & technologies

Programming Languages
PHPPythonBashPowerShell
Virtualization
VMwareProxmoxXCP-ngCitrix Xen
System Administration
Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, Debian)Windows ServerEmail Servers (Axigen, Zimbra, Mailcow)DNS (BIND, Unbound, Pi-hole, ADDS)Monitoring (Cacti, Nagios, LibreNMS)Web Hosting (ISPconfig, cPanel, HestiaCP, Nginx, IIS)GitLab (Self-Hosted)Database Servers (MySQL, MSSQL)
Security
McAfee SIEM/ESMStellar CyberELK StackFortinet NSEOPNsense
DevOps
Docker & KubernetesGitLab CI/CDJenkinsAnsibleTerraform/OpenTofu
Cloud
AWSOCIAzurePrivate Clouds (VMware, Cloudstack, XCP-ng)
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Education

Masters in Information Technology

Tribhuvan University

2023 – 2026

BSc Computer Science and Information Technology

Academia International College

2014 – 2019

HSEB (+2)

United Academy

2011 – 2013

SLC

Omega International School

2010
05

Certifications

Network Engineer

Aptech Computer Education

2013

Microsoft Student Partner

Microsoft Innovation Center

2014–2015

Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft

2015

NPNOG-5 Network Monitoring

NPNOG

2019

cPanel Professional Certification

cPanel

2019

McAfee SIEM/ESM Specialist

McAfee

2021

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations

Oracle

2022

SANOG-38 Network Automation

SANOG/NPNOG

2022

VMXP-XaaS Professional

Veeam Software

2022

Fortinet NSE Level 1-3

Fortinet

2023

Acronis Cloud Tech Fundamentals

Acronis

2023

Stellar Cyber SOC Analyst

Stellar Cyber

2023

Axigen Certified Engineer

Axigen Messaging

2023