About
DevOps Engineer - Linux, AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD.
Hi, I'm Yogesh Gowda GR, a DevOps Engineer specializing in Linux infrastructure, Kubernetes orchestration and CI/CD automation.
I have 4+ years of production experience managing large-scale Linux infrastructure, cloud operations and CI/CD automation. I currently work at QS Quacquarelli Symonds, where I manage infrastructure for 40+ websites. I'm self-taught in AWS, Kubernetes and modern DevOps practices, learned through hands-on production work.
This blog collects the guides and notes I write along the way: Kubernetes and EKS, Karpenter, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, MySQL/Galera, Nginx, OpenVPN and more.
Experience
- Senior DevOps Engineer, QS Quacquarelli Symonds (Nov 2023 - Present): infrastructure for 40+ websites, GitLab and Jenkins pipelines, Kubernetes with Karpenter on AWS EKS, monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana and ELK.
- DevOps Engineer, Netzary Infodynamics (Jul 2021 - Nov 2023): administered 400+ production Linux servers, built CI/CD pipelines, cut deployment times and manual interventions by 60%.
Skills
- Linux & infrastructure: Ubuntu/RHEL/CentOS, Bash, Nginx/Apache, MySQL/Galera Cluster
- Cloud & containers: AWS (EC2/EKS/Lambda), Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
- DevOps & monitoring: GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK Stack