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Shiva Pal

Shiva Pal

DevOps engineer building local-first ML and infra

shivapal
Cologne, Germany
Joined March 2026
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Summary

Practiced DevOps engineer focused on infrastructure and automation — listed roles describe hands-on responsibility for managing infrastructure and automating delivery processes across multiple positions. zoominfo
Builds local-first ML tooling and RAG systems — authors projects and tutorials showing an emphasis on offline, privacy-preserving architectures (e.g., LocalMind, offline Ollama-based chat). github+1
Active open-source contributor and developer — maintains a GitHub profile with public projects demonstrating practical implementations of RAG, embeddings, and containerized tooling. github
Technical writer on engineering topics — publishes Medium posts that explain architectures and implementation details for real-world developer tools and systems. medium

Work

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Writing

How I Built an Offline ChatGPT Alternative with Node.js + Ollama (No API Costs)

May 1, 2025

Technical walkthrough describing a 100% offline chatbot (local RAG) using Ollama (Llama 3), Xenova embeddings, Qdrant, BullMQ/Valkey and Docker Compose to avoid cloud API costs and keep data local.

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Writing technical tutorials and articles on Medium. medium