Hello I'm Krishnan
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I'm an entrepreneur and a technical architect with strong expertise in infrastructure, software and devops.
I am really good with solving complex problems within tight budgets and deadlines.
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Most Recent Posts
Open Sourcing Hilfedesk - A web based helpdesk/customer support system
Published on: Jun 15 2025
By: Krishnan Sethuraman
From writing the first lines of code to launching a product used by real businesses, this is the journey of Hilfedesk - a helpdesk software born out of necessity. Why are today's helpdesk tools either too complex or too expensive? Read how we're changing that with a new open source approach.
How to migrate from Bitbucket to Self-Hosted Gitea
Published on: Jun 05 2025
By: Krishnan Sethuraman
After Bitbucket hit us with a 1 GB storage limit, I decided to self-host our own Git solution. In this post, I share how I migrated to Gitea, set it up on a Linux server and migrated all the code repositories.
Launching ServerMechanic - Task-Based DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure Services
Published on: May 25 2025
By: Krishnan Sethuraman
I just launched ServerMechanic, a task-based Cloud infrastructure management and DevOps service for founders, lean teams and small businesses who need cloud infrastructure and DevOps help without the full-time hiring headache. From server setup to CI/CD, we take care of the tech so you can focus on building. Check it out: www.servermechanic.work.
Building a Call Center Web Application: A Step-by-Step Technical Deep Dive
Published on: May 15 2025
By: Krishnan Sethuraman
Tracking sales calls on a spreadsheet can become chaotic and comboursome over a period of time. My sales team faced similar issues and unfortunately I could not find a web application that solved all the features that we needed.
So we decided to build a web based call center application with Laravel, Livewire and Vue.js. You can read about this real-world breakdown of how I built this application over two weekends and the strategy that you can adopt to build a similar application for your sales team.
6 Reasons Why Software Projects Fail - And How to Avoid It
Published on: May 14 2025
By: Krishnan Sethuraman