Meet the Team: Jobin Varghese Keecheril
Tell us a little bit about yourself, background, and role. How did you land here?
I’m Jobin Varghese, based in Bangalore, India. I graduated from Deogiri Institute of Engineering and Management Studies (DIEMS) and have been working as a DevOps Engineer for about half a decade. During this time, I’ve worked as an individual contributor, collaborated with product, delivery and sales teams, and had the opportunity to lead DevOps teams.
I enjoy working on the systems that quietly keep everything running. My work has focused on cloud infrastructure, automation, platform engineering, and real-time communication systems — building systems that are reliable, scalable, and easy for engineers to work with. At Trestle, I focus on improving reliability, optimizing our cloud environments, and building automation that helps teams move faster.
I joined Trestle after learning more about the company’s culture and vision during the interview process. Conversations with CEO and Co-founder, Kushal Shah, and Engineering Manager, Bhushan Rakecha, made me excited to be part of the journey.
Outside of work, I enjoy playing sports like badminton, cricket, and football. I’m also into aquariums and aquatic life – a hobby that has taught me patience and observation, qualities that surprisingly translate well into engineering.
What does your daily routine look like?
No two days are exactly the same, which I enjoy.
Much of my time goes into improving infrastructure, refining deployment strategies, and building automation across different layers. The goal is to make systems more reliable, scalable, and easier for engineering teams to work with.
I’ve also had the chance to contribute to complex architecture systems at Trestle that are critical to how our platform operates. Most days are a mix of proactive improvements and quickly troubleshooting when something needs attention.
What excites you most about Trestle?
The scale of the systems we’re building and the impact they have.
Working on large-scale systems where reliability matters keeps things interesting. At the same time, there’s a strong focus on velocity. It’s crucial to deliver improvements quickly while ensuring systems remain secure and dependable since our APIs power products used by customers every day.
What Trestle value do you relate to most?
The value I relate to most is Incremental Innovation. In infrastructure work, improvements rarely come from one big change. They usually come from continuously refining systems, automating repetitive work, and making small innovations and improvements that add up over time.
I see a similar pattern in sports. Progress comes from consistency, observation, small adjustments, and the courage to try something new over time rather than one sudden change. That same mindset applies to engineering as well: gradually improving reliability, performance, and efficiency so the platform becomes stronger with each iteration.
What’s one surprising thing that helps you do your best work?
A mindset I strongly believe in is captured by the quote: “Hard work can beat talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”
In engineering, complex problems rarely have quick fixes. Progress usually comes from persistence: digging into logs, testing approaches, and patiently working through issues until things make sense.
For me, consistent effort, curiosity, and persistence usually lead to the best outcomes.
What’s a topic you could give a 5-minute impromptu talk about?
How infrastructure quietly powers everything.
When it works well, nobody notices it. But good infrastructure allows products to scale, stay reliable, and deliver a great user experience.
And if we go slightly off-topic, I could also talk about building a healthy aquarium ecosystem, which in many ways isn’t that different from maintaining a stable technical system. Or even football, keeping up with current leagues, standings, and how teams perform across the season. I’m a Real Madrid (RMA) fan, and one player I really admire is Federico Valverde. What stands out to me about him is how he always puts the team’s success ahead of personal achievements. Whether it’s defending, pressing, or pushing forward to create chances, he’s willing to do whatever the team needs.
That mindset really resonates with me, and it’s something I try to bring into my own life as well, focusing on contributing wherever I can rather than chasing individual credit.
