Soham R. BhagatSoham R. Bhagat

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ

• Maintain go.rutgers.edu, Rutgers' URL-shortening service, used by 5,700+ users with 150,000+ links and 42M+ visits.
• Merged 100+ GitLab merge requests (MRs) across Rutgers OSS repositories; implemented changes, validated them in CI, and reviewed code through the software development cycle.
• Co-designed and built Who, Rutgers' link-in-bio platform, across system design, business logic, full-stack development with Next.js, FastAPI, and MongoDB, documentation, and deployment.
• Connected Who to the go.rutgers.edu API, supporting organization creation and administration, link creation, and import flows across both services.
• Copied and verified 77,590,548 MongoDB documents across 16 collections from a production database for go.rutgers.edu UAT.
• Prepared and deployed Who and Excalidraw to an OpenShift test environment with Kustomize and Argo CD; configured Deployments, StatefulSets, Services, Routes, persistent volume claims (PVCs), CAS/LDAP, CI pipelines, and environment overlays.

KUBERNETES (K3S), TERRAFORM, ANSIBLE, GITOPS, ARGO CD, CLOUDFLARE, GRAFANA · astatide.com

• Built and operate a two-node production Kubernetes (k3s) platform across a cloud VPS and a homelab; provisioned it with Terraform and Ansible and deploy applications through GitOps and Argo CD.
• Reduced retained kube-state-metrics series from 11,990 to 459 (96.2%) by separating node and cluster collectors in Grafana Alloy and Grafana Cloud; removed duplicate metrics, logs, and events.
• Built CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes applications with GitHub Actions, GitHub Container Registry (GHCR), Kustomize, and Argo CD; promoted immutable images from preview to production and added health checks and rollback paths.
• Manage 10 public and private hostnames across two Cloudflare tunnels; configured Access, DNS, TLS, Workers, KV, an MCP server portal, and an R2 CDN. The tunnels have handled 25k+ requests since August 2026; Jobmark has 100% 90-day uptime.

NEXT.JS, TYPESCRIPT, PRISMA, POSTGRESQL, MCP · jobmark.astatide.com

• Built Jobmark, a full-stack career platform that turns journaled work into weekly updates, performance review drafts, promotion summaries, and professional outreach.
• Modeled accomplishments, activities, metrics, projects, goals, contacts, and interactions with PostgreSQL, Prisma, and Auth.js. Implemented user hygiene with user-scoped access, data export, and account deletion. Separated preview and production across Kubernetes environments and Neon database branches.
• Exposed 50+ Jobmark operations through Streamable HTTP MCP; implemented a custom OAuth 2.1 provider with PKCE, scoped tokens, rate limits, and idempotent writes.