Kaushik Kumaran.

Building reliable systems

I treat infrastructure as a software problem nobody has fully solved. At IBM, I build resilient systems across a global fleet and usually find clarity somewhere between a documentation deep dive and the 3am page that never comes.

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Open source

Contributions

Databricks · upstream

Omnigent

Databricks' open-source AI agent meta-harness — 8k+ stars, orchestrating Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and custom agents behind one policy and sandboxing layer.

NVIDIA · upstream

dcgm-exporter

NVIDIA's official Prometheus exporter for GPU telemetry, built on DCGM — the metrics backbone behind most GPU-fleet observability stacks.

CNCF · upstream

Volcano

A CNCF batch-scheduling system for Kubernetes purpose-built for AI/ML training and HPC workloads — gang scheduling, queues, and GPU-aware fair-share at cluster scale.

Hackathons

Built under a clock

OpenAI Build Week

Argus

A layered Kubernetes security and resilience system combining agentic investigation, chaos testing, and verified recovery.

HackCBS 4.0

Post.io

A logistics-services product built as a full-stack TypeScript application.

Smart India Hackathon 2022

Offline OTP

A mobile approach to generating OTPs in areas without cellular connectivity.

Projects

Systems in progress

Argus

AI-native Kubernetes security that turns eBPF, policy, and runtime signals into agent-assisted threat response.

Sentinel

A LangGraph multi-agent orchestrator coordinating Argus for security and Phoenix for chaos and regression testing.

Phoenix

A Kubernetes chaos and self-healing agent that injects failures, diagnoses incidents, and gates remediation behind human approval.