GOPALKRISHNA KUMTEKAR
Techops Engineer
Bangalore
Summary
DevOps-focused Engineer with 6.10 years of experience in Linux, AWS, automation, and cloud infrastructure. Skilled in building CI/CD pipelines, containerization using Docker, infrastructure automation using Terraform, and monitoring using Splunk, Zabbix, Grafana. Strong experience in troubleshooting production systems and improving deployment reliability.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
3
3
Certificates
Work History
Tech ops Engineer
Light & Wonder
05.2023 - Current
- Built a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions, Docker, and AWS Cloud VM, with automated build, registry push, and containerized deployment triggered on Git commits.
- Built Python-based automation, integrating vCenter and CrowdStrike Falcon API, to identify non-reporting VMs and generate actionable compliance reports.
- Automated RTP monitoring using Python to ingest data from AWS S3, create Jira incidents, and prevent duplicate tickets by validating unresolved issues.
- Managing and maintaining servers, ensuring their stability, performance, and security.
- Developing and maintaining automation scripts and tools to streamline deployment, configuration, and monitoring processes.
- Monitoring and optimizing cloud resources, ensuring scalability.
- Identifying and resolving issues related to infrastructure, applications, and services, to minimize downtime and disruptions.
- Setting up monitoring systems to track system health, performance metrics, and generate alerts for potential issues.
- Responding to incidents, conducting root cause analysis, and implementing preventive measures to mitigate future occurrences.
Linux/Cloud Engineer - Level 1
WEBSCALE NETWORKS
03.2021 - 05.2023
- Investigate and troubleshoot issues, and develop solutions for our customers while understanding their business needs.
- Install, configure, update, and troubleshoot services for customers, such as Ubuntu OS-level concerns, web server, database server, application server, and mail; includes Nginx, Apache, PHP, MySQL, SFTP, SSH, SSL, and Elasticsearch. Containerization tools, such as Docker.
- Support complex, scalable application infrastructure.
- Experience with AWS services, such as EC2, IAM, RDS, CloudWatch, S3, Route 53, and VPC.
Linux Administrator
Network people services technologies
04.2019 - 10.2020
- File system management: ext2, ext3, and ext utilities.
- Managing different file servers, like NFS, FTP, and SAMBA servers.
- Configuration of LVM and managing the volumes.
- Diagnosing, monitoring performance, and network-related issues.
- Provide System Administrator-level support for applications such as MySQL, Apache, Tomcat, and RabbitMQ.
- Configured and maintained Linux servers, and provided beneficial technical assistance to colleagues and clients.
- Maintained and upgraded hardware and software, resolved any network problems, and conducted regular backups.
Education
Bachelor’s - Mechanical Engineering
Shree Devi Institute of Technology
Mangalore, India08-2016
Skills
Cloud: AWS (EC2, IAM, RDS, S3, VPC, Route53, CloudWatch)DevOps: GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Docker, Terraform, AnsibleMonitoring: Splunk, Zabbix, Grafana, CloudWatchOS: Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL)Scripting: Bash, PythonTools: Git, SSH, SFTP
Accomplishments
GitHub Actions certified
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
Certification
GitHub Actions certified
Timeline
GitHub Actions certified
04-2026
Terraform Associate
09-2025
Tech ops Engineer
Light & Wonder
05.2023 - Current
AWS Cloud Practitioner
03-2022
Linux/Cloud Engineer - Level 1
WEBSCALE NETWORKS
03.2021 - 05.2023
Linux Administrator
Network people services technologies
04.2019 - 10.2020
Bachelor’s - Mechanical Engineering
Shree Devi Institute of Technology