Rishikesh Gautam

DevOps Engineer

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

I run the servers, pipelines, and cloud accounts that production depends on, and I try to keep deploys boring.

About

Production infrastructure across cloud and on‑prem.

I'm Rishikesh, a DevOps engineer based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Most of my work is across AWS, DigitalOcean, and on‑prem servers, set up with Terraform and Ansible.

I automate anything I've done twice, and I care about clear alerts and readable logs. I like simple setups that the rest of the team can understand without me.

Work

Rara Labs

Apr 2026 – present

DevOps Engineer, Kathmandu

  • Run a mix of AWS, DigitalOcean, and on-prem infrastructure, provisioned and kept in sync with Terraform and Ansible.
  • Worked on SOC 2 compliance and strengthened security practices, including Wazuh for SIEM and threat detection.
  • Simplified and automated deployments with GitHub Actions and Drone pipelines that roll out services without downtime.
  • Set up monitoring and tracing with Prometheus, Grafana, Beyla, and Alloy, which helped diagnose application issues and made services more resource-efficient.

Terraform, Ansible, Docker, SOC 2, Wazuh, AWS, DigitalOcean, on-prem, Prometheus, Grafana, Beyla, Alloy, GitHub Actions, Drone

RevKeter LLC

Mar 2025 – Apr 2026

DevOps Engineer, remote

  • The only infrastructure engineer at a US startup.
  • Wrote the Terraform modules behind ECS, VPC, RDS, ALB, and S3 across dev, staging, and production.
  • Built a GitHub Actions and ECR pipeline that removed the manual steps from releases.
  • Set up CloudWatch dashboards and alarms.

AWS ECS, Terraform, Docker, GitHub Actions, CloudWatch, RDS, Route 53, ECR

Education

Kantipur Engineering College

2021 – 2025

Bachelor of Engineering, Kathmandu

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

Stack

Cloud and infrastructure

  • AWS
  • DigitalOcean
  • Terraform
  • Ansible

CI/CD and version control

  • GitHub Actions
  • Drone
  • GitHub
  • Git

Observability and security

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Wazuh
  • Vault

Containers

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes

Networking

  • Nginx
  • Cloudflare

Databases and caching

  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis

Certifications

Community

  • AWS Community Builder

    Member, 2025 – present

    Selected for the AWS Community Builders program, which supports people who share AWS knowledge with the community.

  • DevOps Kathmandu

    Community member

    I attend the local DevOps meetups in Kathmandu regularly.

  • AWS User Group Women in Tech Nepal

    Volunteer

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

  • AWS Cloud Club

    Ed-tech lead, 2025

    Led 30+ events that introduced people to cloud computing.

Contact

I'm based in Kathmandu and open to DevOps roles, remote or on-site, and contract infrastructure work. Email is the best way to reach me.