The engineer behind TwentyOneLabs.
I’m Niloy Kashyap. I started TwentyOneLabs in 2023 and I still do the work myself.
For over six years I’ve worked on the systems businesses depend on: servers, storage, virtualisation, Linux and Windows.
At Hewlett Packard Enterprise and VMware I worked on complex incidents for enterprise and public-sector customers across EMEA and North America. That’s where I learned what a critical outage feels like from the customer’s side, and why calm updates and good notes matter as much as the fix.
In 2023 I started freelancing through TwentyOneLabs, building private cloud and container platforms for small and medium businesses and helping them move to low-cost, open-source and self-hosted IT. I’m still doing it.
Along the way I did an MBA at Strathclyde Business School and finished with a Distinction. It means I look at IT the way you do: what it costs, what it risks, and whether it’s worth doing at all.
- 6+ yearsin infrastructure: servers, storage, virtualisation, Linux and Windows
- HPE and VMwareenterprise support for customers across EMEA and North America
- MBA, Distinctionfrom Strathclyde Business School, so I weigh up cost as well as kit
- Glasgow, UKbased here, working remotely
Career so far
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Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer (Freelance)
TwentyOneLabs
Freelancing through TwentyOneLabs, helping small and medium-sized businesses move to low-cost, open-source and self-hosted IT. Scoping, design, build, handover and ongoing support, all me.
- Designed and built private clouds on clustered Proxmox VE, hosting client websites, private email, file storage and business apps on VMs and LXC containers.
- Deployed containerised apps on Docker and Kubernetes behind NGINX reverse proxies, with load balancing, SSL/TLS certificates, Cloudflare DNS and firewall rules.
- Built GitHub Actions pipelines for repeatable deployments, and used AWS (EC2, S3, Route 53), Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud where a client’s setup needed public cloud.
- Built and deployed full stack apps for a UK waste and recycling platform, using AI-assisted coding and configuration.
What I work with
The names are for anyone technical. Flip a card for the plain English version.
Want the full CV?
Every role, every tool and a terminal you can actually type in. My portfolio has the long version.
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