Rishikesh
Gautam

DevOps Engineer

I look after the clusters, pipelines, and cloud accounts that production quietly runs on. When a deploy goes out at midnight, my job is that nobody notices.

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about

Infrastructure that
stays out of the way

I'm Rishikesh, a DevOps engineer in Kathmandu, Nepal. Day to day I look after Kubernetes clusters, Terraform-managed AWS accounts, and the pipelines that carry code from a merged pull request to production without anyone holding their breath.

Right now I'm at Rara Labs, running a mix of AWS and bare-metal. Before that I was the only infrastructure engineer at RevKeter, a US startup, where I owned the whole stack — ECS, DNS, certificates, and the dashboards everyone checked when something felt off.

I'd rather spend a week automating a chore than do it twice by hand, and I'm a little particular about clear alerts and logs you can actually read. Outside work, I volunteer with AWS User Group Women in Tech Nepal and show up regularly at DevOps Kathmandu meetups.

tech stack

Tools I work with

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS AWS
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
Terraform Terraform
Ansible Ansible

Containers & Orchestration

Docker Docker
Kubernetes Kubernetes

Networking & Delivery

Nginx Nginx
Cloudflare Cloudflare

Databases & Caching

PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
Redis Redis

Observability & Security

Prometheus Prometheus
Grafana Grafana
Wazuh Wazuh
Vault Vault

CI/CD & Version Control

GitHub Actions GitHub Actions
Drone Drone
GitHub GitHub
Git Git
experience

Where I've worked

Apr 2026 — present

DevOps Engineer

Rara Labs  ·  Kathmandu, Nepal

Run a mix of on-premise and AWS infrastructure, keeping Kubernetes clusters provisioned and in sync with Terraform and Ansible across both. Set up Wazuh for SIEM and threat detection, and built GitHub Actions pipelines that roll out microservices without downtime. Wired everything into Prometheus and Grafana so trouble shows up on a dashboard before it shows up in a ticket.

KubernetesTerraformAnsible WazuhAWSOn-Prem PrometheusGrafanaGitHub Actions
Mar 2025 — Apr 2026

DevOps Engineer

RevKeter LLC  ·  Remote

The only infrastructure engineer at a US startup, owning AWS from day one. Wrote the Terraform modules behind ECS, VPC, RDS, ALB, and S3 across dev, staging, and production, and built a GitHub Actions and ECR pipeline that took the manual steps out of releases entirely. Set up the CloudWatch dashboards and alarms the team relied on to see what production was actually doing.

AWS ECSTerraformDocker GitHub ActionsCloudWatchRDS Route 53ECR
education

Background

2021 — 2025

Bachelor of Engineering

Kantipur Engineering College  ·  Kathmandu, Nepal

4-year programme in Electronics, Communication and Information Engineering.

certifications

Credentials

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services

March 2026

Associate

AWS Certified Developer – Associate

Amazon Web Services

April 2026

Associate

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

September 2024

Foundational
community

Outside work

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DevOps Kathmandu

Community Member

A regular at the local meetups, comparing notes on tooling and trading outage stories with other infra folks around Kathmandu.

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AWS User Group Women in Tech Nepal

Volunteer

Helping run events and mentoring for women getting started in cloud and tech across Nepal.

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AWS Cloud Club — Core Team

Core Team Member  ·  2025

Recognised by the AWS Community for work on the AWS Cloud Club programme.
contact

Get in touch

I'm open to DevOps roles and contract infrastructure work, and always up for talking shop about clusters, pipelines, or a gnarly outage. Send me an email.

hi@rishikesh.info.np