Well the name is Ramaseshan.S but I go by the name VoidSpaceXYZ on the internet. My interest lies at the intersection of technology, history, culture, and commons.

But lets talk a little more. Yes, I am an tech dude, worked in the industry for 10 years. I started as a full stack developer, and fell in love with infrastructure, and shifted to the domains of DevOps, Systems Engineering. My last job role was a Lead DevOps Engineer from AVR EdGE Networks Pvt Ltd in Bangalore.

I wear multiple hats at work.I am CloudOps(Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform (OpenTofu), Ansible), CostOps(SBOM for Cloud, Cost Optimization, Kubecost), DevOps(Python, Java, NodeJS, CI/CD, Containerization like Docker), ProductOps (Architect products and dependencies and work closely in choosing a tech stack) and SecurityOps (SAST, security patching and VAPT). I also have a keen interest in policy and compliance and aware to a great extent on ISO27001, SOC2-Type2 (Controls) and GDPR. I have also managed database like PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, cache systems like Redis and message queue tools like RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS, Azure Queue. My experience with managed services like AKS, Application Gateway, WAF, Databases.

I have currently taken a break from work, and pursuing my masters in Digital Humanities and Culture at Trinity College Dublin. More about it here.

Beyond technology, I love urban and terrace gardens. I have successfully grown veggies like tomatos, chillies, bell peppers, beans (french beans, kidney beans etc). Grown herbs like Roasemary, Lemon balm, thyme, mint, coriander to name a few. And with little success carrots and beets too.

I still strongly believe in the idea of Democracy, and actively take part in action that contributes positively towards empowering democracy. Specifically I am intested in hate speech, mis-information, fundamental rights, digital privacy and rights and anything else that will have a positive impact.

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) forms the core of my value system, you can read about it here. I volunteered with FSHM (Free Software Hardware Movement, Puducherry), FSFTN (Free Software Foundation, TamilNadu) and FSMK (Free Software Movement, Karnataka) for over 11 years. I took part in conferences, gave talks and lectures in colleges on the importance of FOSS, organized 4 to 7 day residential workshops to teach many free software tools.

I used to volunteer with Ambedkar Community Computing Center (AC3) for the past 7 years(2015-2023), but currently not participating actively since I live in Ireland.

I currently volunteer my time to Janastu in helping develop PLASMA and offer technical support wherever possible.

Currently, my focus is on decentralized technology, community ownership of history and technology. I am working on a couple of projects and will soon post them. You can read more about them here