available for devops / cloud engineer roles

Ritik Bawane —
I build pipelines that don't break at 2am.

DevOps Engineer with 3.4 years of enterprise infrastructure experience at Kyndryl, now backed by four self-built, production-style projects across CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, and observability — each one documented down to the exact errors I hit and fixed.

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NAMERitik Bawane
ROLEDevOps Engineer
STATUSavailable
LOCATIONNagpur, IN
EXPERIENCE3.4 yrs prod
CERTSAWS SAA · RHCSA
Portrait of Ritik Bawane
// Ritik Bawane
01 / about
From production support to production pipelines

I spent 3.4 years at Kyndryl India as a System Management Engineer — running Linux servers, IBM DB2 databases, and IIS web servers in 24×7 production environments where downtime had real business impact. That work taught me to stay calm under pressure and to always look for the root cause, not just the symptom.

In 2025, I made a deliberate move into DevOps and Cloud Engineering. Over a structured 90-day upskilling program, I earned the AWS Solutions Architect Associate and RHCSA certifications, then built four end-to-end projects — a Jenkins/ArgoCD GitOps pipeline, a multi-environment Terraform setup, a monitored Kubernetes microservices app, and a MERN stack deployed on a Kubernetes cluster I built from scratch with kubeadm.

I document every real error I hit along the way — not just the happy path — because that's what actually gets asked about in interviews, and what actually matters in production.

3.4
Years enterprise infra experience
2
Cloud & Linux certifications
4
End-to-end DevOps projects
27
Real production errors documented
02 / skills
Toolchain
ci/cd & gitops
JenkinsArgoCDSonarQubeGit/GitHubDocker Hub
containers & orchestration
DockerKubernetesKindkubeadmMinikubeHelmCalico CNI
infrastructure as code
TerraformRemote StateMulti-Env Design
cloud — aws
EC2VPCS3IAMRDSCloudWatchDynamoDB
monitoring & observability
PrometheusGrafanaPromQL
os, scripting & data
Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu)BashIBM DB2MongoDB
03 / projects
Deployed, broken, fixed, documented
Ultimate CI/CD Pipeline
Jun 2026
✓ 7 production errors fixed
Full GitOps pipeline: GitHub webhook → Jenkins (Maven build, SonarQube scan, Docker build/push) → ArgoCD auto-syncs to Kubernetes. Code-push-to-live-pod in under 10 minutes, zero manual steps.
JenkinsArgoCDSonarQubeKubernetes
github.com/RB5437/Ultimate-CI-CD-Pipeline ↗
Terraform Multi-Env AWS Infra
Jun 2026
✓ 7 production errors fixed
Reusable IaC codebase provisioning isolated Dev/Production environments (EC2, S3, DynamoDB) from a single module, with S3 + DynamoDB remote state and locking.
TerraformAWSHCL
github.com/RB5437/Terraform-Multi-Env-Infra ↗
K8s Voting App + Observability
Jun 2026
✓ 7 production errors fixed
5-microservice voting app on a Kind cluster, self-written manifests, ArgoCD GitOps delivery, and a full kube-prometheus-stack setup with custom Grafana dashboards.
KubernetesHelmPrometheusGrafana
github.com/RB5437/k8s-kind-voting-app ↗
Wanderlust — MERN on kubeadm
Jul 2026
✓ 6 production errors fixed
Production-style Kubernetes cluster built from scratch with kubeadm (master + worker, Calico CNI, CoreDNS) — not a managed service — running a 4-microservice MERN app.
kubeadmMongoDBReactNode.js
github.com/RB5437/wanderlust ↗
What's next
3-Tier DevSecOps — BoardGame App
In progress
🔧 building now
Full DevSecOps pipeline for a Spring Boot Board Game database app: Jenkins + SonarQube + Trivy (code & image scanning) + Nexus artifact repository → Kubernetes via ArgoCD, with KubeAudit cluster security scanning and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring.
JenkinsTrivyNexusArgoCDKubeAudit
Weather App — DevOps + AI Pipeline
Next up
📋 planned next
A Flask weather app deployed through Terraform → Docker → Jenkins → ArgoCD → Kubernetes → Prometheus, with a free, self-hosted AI layer (Ollama) that verifies each pipeline stage and detects metric anomalies — no paid API required.
TerraformOllama (AI)PrometheusKubernetes
04 / experience
git log --experience
HEAD → career-break-upskilling
Career Break & Structured Upskilling
Apr 2025 – Present
  • Completed a 90-day structured DevOps challenge: Linux, Networking, Shell Scripting, Git, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, Prometheus & Grafana.
  • Designed, built, and deployed 4 documented end-to-end projects, each with real production-style debugging.
  • Currently building 2 additional projects (a DevSecOps pipeline and a DevOps+AI pipeline) while actively interviewing for DevOps / Cloud Engineer roles.
  • Available to join immediately.
kyndryl-system-management
System Management — Kyndryl Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Pune, India · Jan 2023 – Mar 2025
  • Installed, configured, and maintained IIS/FTP servers for enterprise production, ensuring high uptime.
  • Performed daily IBM DB2 health checks, backups, and restores with full data consistency.
  • Administered Linux user management, access control, SWAP, cron, and networking.
  • Led incident/problem/change management in ServiceNow across a 24×7 support model.
kyndryl-associate-technical-engineer
Associate Technical Engineer — Kyndryl Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Bengaluru, India · Nov 2021 – Dec 2022
  • Supported IBM DB2 databases via daily health checks, backups, restores, and performance monitoring.
  • Installed and configured IIS web servers for enterprise production applications.
05 / certifications
Verified credentials
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services
valid → Dec 2027
Red Hat Certified System Administrator
Red Hat (RHCSA)
valid → Oct 2027