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Bhikesh Khute

Mumbai, MH, India · +919820311429 · bhikesh.khute@outlook.com

I am a site reliability engineer & polygot coder. I love to tweak codes and do as much automation as possible.


Experience

Senior Software Engineer

  • Just Joined

December 2025 - Present

Site Reliability Engineer

  • Implemented Continuous Deployment pipeline using GitLab for clients(on-premises).
  • Onboarded new services pipeline using Jenkins for continuous integration and continuous deployment for cloud based projects.
  • Implemented split-traffic tunneling using OpenVPN for the organization.
  • Upgraded outdated production MongoDB Databases with proper planning with developers and required CAB approval from stakeholders.
  • Optimized docker-compose configurationby implementing memory limits and performance tuning.
  • Deployed microservices application on Openshift Kubernetes Engine Cluster.
  • Setup of data layer(MongoDB, Kafka, Zoopkeeper, Elasticsearch and RabbitMQ) on VMs having IBM Z Series Architecture(s390x)
  • Executed DC-DR synchronization of Mongo and Oracle Database for the clients.
  • Created automated scripts to backup elastic-search data and restoration.
  • Implemented alert triggers via email on backup failures of data layer segments.
  • Successfully upgraded Kubernetes clusters for on-premises clients having air-gapped systems.
  • Configured Dockerized application to run as a non-root user, enhancing security and compliance with best practices.
  • Resolved VAPT points related to Infrastructure(Web Server and OS related).

May 2024 - Aug 2025

Senior DevOps Engineer

  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines using in-house tools.
  • Ansible playbooks for automated environment setup.
  • AWS environment setup for clients.
  • Bi-quarterly capacity planning reports.
  • Leveraged Icinga, Prometheus and Grafana for infrastructure and application monitoring.

April 2023 - January 2024

DevOps Engineer-II

  • Proactively monitoring infrastructure and application health.
  • Reporting bugs/exceptions via Jira to L1/L2/L3 teams and triage application (Tomcat)/web server (Apache) logs.
  • Implemented DevOps culture for deployments/hotfixes with Jenkins.
  • Automated processes with shell scripting and scheduled jobs.
  • Executed disaster recovery activities biannually and conducted technical interviews for support engineer team.

February 2020 - December 2022

Education

University of Mumbai

Masters of Science
Information Technology

CGPA: 8.72

July 2021 - May 2023

Centre for Development and Advanced Computing

PG Diploma - IT Infrastructure, Systems and Security

CGPA: 7.4

August 2019 - January 2020

University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Engineering
Information Technology

CGPA: 7.12

August 2015 - June 2019

Projects

Two-Tier Event App with Node.js & Docker

A professional event registration system built with Node.js, Express, and MongoDB. The system features a modern UI, QR code generation, and email notifications.

Source Code: 🏹


Chat Messaging Application using RUST

A modern, real-time chat application built with Rust and WebSocket technology. This application allows users to create chat rooms and communicate in real-time with features like typing indicators and room sharing.

Source Code: 🏹


Containarized Java application using a CI-CD pipeline

In this project, the java code is packaged via maven and hosted on the Alpine Tomcat Container. As soon as a commit happens on a branch, web-hook will trigger the build to create new package/artifact and the project will be deployed on Apache Tomcat in Realtime orchestrated by Jenkins pipeline.

Source Code: 🏹


Linux users management using shell/bash scripting

In this project, an intervative,colorized menu developed to maintain user managements seamlessly on any linux distro. The menu involes add/delete users, modify users (add to groups, toggle shells, disable/enable login), grant sudo/wheel, create groups, and make timestamped directory backups.

Source Code: 🏹


Virtual Host Management with Ansible on web servers

In this project, we will be deploying multiple websites on a single webserver irrespective of the operating system. say, a sample shopping website and a travel website to demonstrate virtual host configuration. The type of virtual host for the project is IP-PORT based.

Source Code: 🏹

Skills


Languages & Scripting
       


Operating Systems
     


Databases
       


Containerization & Orchestration
     


IaC
 


Observability
   


Cloud Technology
 


Automation Pipelines
       


Version Control
 


Interests


Apart from this computing world, I love to hear multi-lingual Indian music and an avid runner. Also, I have a keen interest in public policies.

When forced indoors, I follow a number of sci-fi and fantasy genre movies and television shows, I am an aspiring technology evangelist, and I spend a good amount of my free time pulse-checking contents of social media.


Certifications

AWS Badge

Blogs

Installation of Kubernetes (v1.29) on air-gapped Linux system

In this blog, I have explained the step-by-step process to install Kubernetes on air-gapped Linux systems. The blog covers downloading necessary binaries, setting up a local container registry, configuring networking, and initializing the cluster without internet access.

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