Authors

Daxesh Italiya

Co-Founder & CTO, TST Technology

Daxesh Italiya is the Co-Founder and CTO of TST Technology and the technical lead behind CtrlOps.io. Before CtrlOps, he built Wooffer - TST's server-monitoring platform that pushes real-time crash alerts to Slack, auto-creates Jira tickets on incidents, and gives teams a staging environment to verify fixes before production. Wooffer came out of a recurring pattern he saw across client work: learning about production bugs from customer calls instead of from monitoring, and burning hours on downtime that should have been caught at the source. CtrlOps is the same thesis taken further - a 100% local, agentless desktop app where SSH, file management, multi-server monitoring, deployments, and an AI terminal live in one place, with no credentials ever leaving the developer's machine. Over five years he has shipped 40+ projects across 7+ countries, and maintains an NPM package for React form scaffolding alongside an internal architecture framework that cuts project setup time roughly 10x. He writes about server reliability, SSH and shell tooling, deployment workflows, and the backend decisions that determine whether a small team can sleep through the night.

Hiren Kalariya

Co-Founder & CEO, TST Technology

Hiren Kalariya is the Co-Founder and CEO of TST Technology and the product lead behind CtrlOps.io, a local-first desktop app for managing Linux servers without a dedicated DevOps engineer. Over the past five years, he has shipped 60+ production systems with engineering teams across SaaS, mobile, and web product companies - and the problems that led him to build CtrlOps came directly from that work: SSH access scattered across PuTTY, WinSCP, and three other tools; servers crashing because no one noticed a disk filling up; and the operational risk of having one person on a team who knows where every server lives. At CtrlOps, he leads product and engineering on a 100% local tool that consolidates SSH, file management, multi-server monitoring, one-click deployments, and an AI terminal into a single desktop app. He writes about Linux server management, SSH workflows, and practical DevOps for developers who own production infrastructure without holding the DevOps title.