IT Consultant & DevOps Engineer

Bhavikkumar
Rathod

Cloud Migration · CI/CD · Kubernetes · IaC

IT Consultant & DevOps Engineer with 9+ years across enterprise IT, AWS cloud architecture, and DevOps automation. Since April 2024, delivering cloud migrations, CI/CD pipelines, containerisation, and observability engagements for SMBs across India and the UK.

9+
Years Experience
99.5%
Uptime Delivered
44%
AWS Cost Savings
DevOps
Engineer
Bhavikkumar Rathod
Scroll to explore
01 — About

The Engineer
Behind the Infrastructure

I'm an IT Consultant and DevOps Engineer with 9+ years of combined experience in enterprise IT infrastructure, AWS cloud architecture, and DevOps automation. Since April 2024, I've been working independently — delivering cloud infrastructure setup, CI/CD pipeline implementation, server migration, and containerisation engagements for SMBs across India and the UK.

Hands-on across the full DevOps toolchain: from Terraform-provisioned infrastructure to Kubernetes-orchestrated deployments on AWS EKS. My earlier 6+ years in enterprise L2/L3 support at a Fortune 500-serving BPO gave me a rare foundation — I understand how systems fail, which makes me exceptionally good at building systems that don't.

What sets me apart is the ability to bridge operations and development, translate business needs into automated infrastructure, and deliver measurable outcomes — uptime improvements, cost reductions, and deployment velocity gains — for every engagement.

99.5% Uptime — E-commerce AWS Migration
Migrated UK e-commerce startup from a single VPS to a fully auto-scaling AWS architecture, lifting uptime from ~94% to 99.5%
44% AWS Cost Reduction
Consolidated a digital agency's 6 EC2 instances onto shared managed services, cutting monthly AWS spend by 44%
11-Minute Deployment Pipeline
Reduced a logistics startup's 2-hour manual deployment to a fully automated 11-minute GitHub Actions → EKS pipeline
3-Minute MTTD — FinTech Observability
Built a full Prometheus/Grafana/AlertManager stack that cut mean time to detect from 47 minutes to under 3 minutes

Personal Details

Location Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Email Bhavik191989@gmail.com
Phone +91-9687612759
Remote Open to Remote
Notice Period Immediate
Languages English · Hindi · Gujarati
Available for Immediate Start

Education

Bachelor of Business Information Mgmt 2011–2013
University of Wales, Cardiff, UK Systems Analysis · Project Mgmt
Higher Secondary (Science) 2006

Profiles

Work Auth Indian Citizen
02 — Technical Skills

Tools of the Trade

CI/CD & Automation
Jenkins Pipeline as Code GitHub Actions GitLab CI/CD Multi-branch Pipelines Maven Artifact Management
🐳
Containerization
Docker Docker Compose Multi-stage Builds Container Registry Image Optimization Docker Swarm
Kubernetes
AWS EKS Minikube Helm kubectl Deployments RBAC HPA Ingress ConfigMaps & Secrets
🏗
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform Modules & Backends State Management AWS CloudFormation Ansible Playbooks & Roles Vagrant
AWS Cloud
EC2 S3 VPC IAM RDS Lambda ELB Auto Scaling Route 53 CloudWatch
📊
Monitoring & Observability
Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch AlertManager Loki Log Analysis
🔀
Version Control & GitOps
Git GitHub GitLab Bitbucket GitOps Workflows ArgoCD Branching Strategies
💻
Scripting & OS
Bash Python Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS) Windows Server VMware vSphere Hyper-V YAML / JSON
🌐
Networking & Support
TCP/IP DNS / DHCP VPN Load Balancing Active Directory Office 365 ServiceNow Salesforce
03 — Client Projects

Real-World
Consulting Work

Freelance DevOps & cloud infrastructure engagements delivered since April 2024 — sourced via Upwork and direct referrals. Each project below is a production deployment for a real business client, with measurable outcomes.

02
CI/CD Pipeline

CI/CD Pipeline Implementation for SaaS Product

A SaaS product company was SSH-ing into production to deploy JAR files manually — no staging, no rollback. Engaged to design and implement a full CI/CD pipeline from scratch, including quality gates and zero-downtime deploys.

Jenkins Multibranch Pipeline GitHub Maven SonarQube Nexus Ansible Slack
Jenkins Multibranch Pipeline with declarative Jenkinsfile; migrated codebase to GitHub with branching strategy (main/develop/feature/*)
SonarQube quality gate: deployments rejected below 70% coverage or critical issues; Nexus for versioned JAR storage
Ansible handles zero-downtime rolling deploys to staging and production; Slack webhook for real-time build/deploy events
Bi-weekly manual releases → daily automated deployments in 3 weeks; SonarQube cut post-release bugs by ~40%
⌥ GitHub: aptsys-cicd
03
PaaS Migration

Server Consolidation & PaaS Migration

A digital marketing agency was managing 6 separate EC2 instances for client web apps — each manually patched, individually monitored, and expensive. Engaged to consolidate and re-platform onto managed AWS services.

Elastic Beanstalk Amazon RDS ElastiCache (Redis) S3 + CloudFront CloudWatch Ansible SNS Cost Explorer
4 web apps moved to Elastic Beanstalk with auto-scaling, rolling deploys, and environment cloning; 3 MySQL instances consolidated to 1 RDS Multi-AZ
ElastiCache (Redis) shared caching layer reduced page load times; S3 + CloudFront for static assets
CloudWatch dashboards and SNS alerts to Slack; Ansible playbooks for scheduled OS tasks (patches, log rotation, cert renewal)
Monthly AWS bill reduced by 44%; OS patching burden eliminated for 4 of 6 apps; DB connection spike detected & resolved in 4 minutes
⌥ GitHub: aws-paas-migration
04
Kubernetes

Containerisation & Kubernetes Deployment

A logistics tech startup was breaking a monolithic Java app into microservices and needed someone to containerise the new services and deploy them to a scalable Kubernetes environment on AWS EKS.

Docker AWS EKS Terraform Helm GitHub Actions Amazon ECR NGINX Ingress cert-manager HPA RBAC
Dockerfiles for 5 microservices with multi-stage builds; image sizes reduced 55% vs single-stage; ECR with lifecycle policies
EKS cluster provisioned via Terraform (VPC, managed node groups, IRSA); NGINX Ingress + cert-manager + Let's Encrypt SSL
HPA on 3 high-traffic services; RBAC: dev read-only to dev namespace; Helm charts with env-specific values (dev/staging/prod)
2-hour manual deploys → 11-minute pipeline; HPA held response times under 200ms during 3× traffic surge; infra cost down 30%
⌥ GitHub: Containerisation-Kubernetes-Deployment
05
Observability

Monitoring, Alerting & Observability Stack Setup

A FinTech startup had zero production visibility — no metrics, no alerting, no log aggregation. A payment processing outage went undetected for 47 minutes. Engaged to build a full observability stack from scratch.

Prometheus Grafana AlertManager PagerDuty CloudWatch Logs CloudWatch Synthetics Node Exporter SNS
Prometheus with node exporters across 8 production servers; Grafana dashboards for infra, application, and business metrics (transaction success rate)
AlertManager with 22 alert rules (CPU >85%, disk >80%, error rate >1%, service down); critical → PagerDuty, non-critical → Slack
Centralised CloudWatch Logs pipeline with metric filters on error patterns; CloudWatch Synthetics canaries on 5 critical API endpoints
MTTD reduced from 47 min → under 3 min; 0 false positives in first 4 weeks; team found and fixed 3 slow DB queries in week 1
⌥ GitHub: Monitoring-Alerting-Observability-Stack-Setup
06
Full-Stack DevOps

Emartapp — Microservices E-commerce Platform

Containerised and deployed a full-stack e-commerce microservices application (Angular frontend + Node.js + Java backend) on Kubernetes, with a complete CI/CD pipeline and ingress-based routing.

Angular Node.js Java Docker Kubernetes NGINX Ingress GitHub Actions ECR
Multi-service Docker Compose for local development; Kubernetes manifests with separate namespaces for frontend, API, and data tiers
NGINX Ingress with path-based routing between Angular SPA and backend APIs; TLS termination via cert-manager
GitHub Actions CI/CD: build → test → Docker push to ECR → kubectl rollout on merge to main
⌥ GitHub: emartapp
04 — Work History

Professional
Experience

April 2024 — Present
IT Consultant & Freelance DevOps Engineer
Self-Employed · Remote, India (Upwork & Direct Referrals)
  • Providing freelance DevOps and cloud infrastructure consulting to SMBs sourced via Upwork and direct referrals — spanning cloud migrations, CI/CD implementation, server automation, and containerised deployments
  • Migrated a UK e-commerce startup from a single VPS to a multi-tier, auto-scaling AWS architecture — uptime improved from ~94% to 99.5%; monthly hosting costs reduced by 38%
  • Implemented a full CI/CD pipeline for a SaaS ISV — eliminated all manual deployments; team went from bi-weekly releases to daily automated deployments within 3 weeks; post-release bugs reduced ~40%
  • Consolidated a digital agency's 6 EC2 instances onto shared managed AWS services (Elastic Beanstalk, RDS Multi-AZ, ElastiCache) — monthly AWS bill reduced by 44%
  • Containerised 5 microservices for a logistics startup and deployed to AWS EKS — reduced deployment time from 2 hours to 11 minutes; HPA maintained sub-200ms response times during 3× traffic surge
  • Built a full Prometheus/Grafana/AlertManager observability stack for a FinTech client — cut mean time to detect (MTTD) from 47 minutes to under 3 minutes; 22 alert rules with zero false positives in 4 weeks
44%
AWS Cost Saved
11 min
Deploy Pipeline
<3 min
MTTD (FinTech)
July 2017 — March 2024 · 6+ Years
Technical Support Engineer
Etech Global Services · Gandhinagar, Gujarat
  • Delivered L2/L3 enterprise IT support across software, hardware, servers, databases, and network infrastructure for a global BPO serving Fortune 500 clients; consistently met SLA targets across all categories
  • Administered Active Directory, Office 365, and Azure AD environments; configured and troubleshot routers, switches, and firewalls; managed VPN and network security policies
  • Led migration of 20+ on-premises applications to AWS in coordination with cloud team — resulting in a 25% reduction in infrastructure costs for the client
  • Built automated Bash diagnostic scripts that reduced average ticket resolution time by 30%, eliminating manual triage steps for common failure patterns
  • Built and maintained 50+ knowledge-base articles and RCA reports — reduced repeat escalations by 25%
  • Mentored and onboarded 20+ junior engineers; delivered structured training on cloud tools, troubleshooting methodology, and SLA management
  • Maintained a 4.8/5.0 client satisfaction score across the entire 6-year tenure; recognised as top performer for 3 consecutive years
30%
Faster Resolution
20+
Migrations
4.8/5
Client Rating
50+
KB Articles
05 — Get in Touch

Ready to Build
Something Great?

Let's engineer
the future together.

I'm available immediately for freelance DevOps engagements or full-time roles — remote or on-site in Gujarat. Whether you need a cloud migration, CI/CD pipeline, Kubernetes setup, or an ongoing DevOps partner, let's talk.