Case Study
Containerized CI/CD Pipeline
Dockerized deploys behind Nginx, automated with GitHub Actions
DockerGitHub ActionsNginxAWS
Open to Cloud/DevOps internships & entry-level roles
Hello, I'm
I'm aCloud Engineer
AWS-certified Cloud & DevOps engineer building automated, resilient infrastructure with Terraform, Docker, CI/CD and Linux.
AWS Certified (SAA + CCP) · Terraform · Docker · CI/CD · Linux
Open to work
About Me
Infrastructure, not just interfaces.
The story behind the code — who I am and what drives my work.
Tech Lead @ GKLT
I break things on purpose in a test environment so they never break in production. I'm a cloud and DevOps engineer, AWS-certified (Solutions Architect – Associate and Cloud Practitioner), and I spend most of my time turning "it works on my machine" into infrastructure that scales, recovers, and deploys itself.
My hands-on work is where the learning actually happened. On the ManaKrishi platform I built the real-time telemetry backend for drone-based crop spraying, streaming live flight data from the field to operator dashboards over WebSockets. I designed a secure, multi-AZ three-tier VPC on AWS using Terraform, separating web, app and database tiers behind an Application Load Balancer. I containerized services with Docker and automated builds and deployments through GitHub Actions, so shipping a change went from a manual chore to a single push.
Along the way I've hardened Linux servers, written IAM policies that follow least-privilege, and provisioned EC2, S3, RDS, VPC and Route 53 across several projects. My background is Electronics and Communication Engineering, which is where I got comfortable with networks, hardware and systems thinking before I ever touched the cloud. Right now I'm going deeper on Kubernetes and observability.
Name
Bakki Mahesh
Role
Cloud & DevOps Engineer
Company
GKLT Global Solutions Pvt Ltd
Location
Hyderabad · Remote (India)
Focus
Cloud · DevOps · Infrastructure
Status
Open to Cloud/DevOps internships & entry-level roles
What I Do
From provisioning to production
The capabilities I bring to every system I build and run.
Cloud Infrastructure
Provisioning and running workloads on AWS — VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, and Route 53.
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform modules that make an environment reproducible instead of hand-clicked.
CI/CD Automation
GitHub Actions pipelines that build, test, and deploy on every push.
Containerization
Docker images and compose stacks that behave the same everywhere they run.
Linux & Networking
Server hardening, firewall rules, SSH policy, routing, and Nginx in front.
Security & IAM
Least-privilege IAM policies, security groups, and isolated subnet design.
Full Stack Development
End-to-end web applications with Next.js, Node.js, and modern databases.
Monitoring & Reliability
Health checks, logs, and metrics — so a failure is noticed before a user reports it.
“I break things on purpose in a test environment so they never break in production.”
Featured Work
Infrastructure, products, and the pipelines between
16 builds across 6 domains — 13 of them live right now. Click any card for the full case study.
Cloud & DevOps
1 projectInfrastructure, delivery pipelines, and the automation that keeps them reproducible.
CRM & Operations Platforms
2 projectsProduction software teams run on daily — pipelines, records, roles, and workflows.
Startup Products
3 projectsMulti-user products built like ventures — networks, live platforms, and marketplaces.
Case StudyLive
Prolance
Tech career networking platform connecting students, professionals, and startups
Next.jsReactTypeScriptNode.js
Case Study
ManaKrishi
Real-time drone telemetry and field insights for agriculture
WebSocketsAWS EC2Node.jsReact
Case StudyLive
IGNUS Sports Portal
Intra-college house championship — live scores, standings & athlete registration
Next.jsTypeScriptTailwindFramer Motion
Business & Brand Sites
6 projectsConversion-focused marketing and brand sites that sell and capture leads for real businesses.
Case StudyLive
Elegance Events
Lead-generation website for a premium event management agency
ReactViteTailwindFramer Motion
Case StudyLive
KrishiUnnati
Premium organic farm storefront with a full product catalogue
Next.jsTypeScriptTailwindVercel
Case StudyLive
Varahi SolarX
Premium solar-energy company site — rooftop homes to megawatt plants
Next.jsTypeScriptTailwindFramer Motion
Case StudyLive
VisaEnsure — Website
Marketing & lead-gen site for the visa consultancy — the public face of the platform
Next.jsTypeScriptTailwindFramer Motion
Case StudyLive
6S Green Tech
Brand & product site for an agricultural-machinery manufacturer
Next.jsTypeScriptTailwindFramer Motion
Case StudyLive
RK Projects
Brand site for a civil-construction & heavy-machinery company
Next.jsTypeScriptTailwindFramer Motion
Portfolios & Personal Brand
2 projectsPersonal and executive sites built to establish authority and showcase craft.
Developer Tools
2 projectsFocused tools, experiments, and interactive experiences built for craft.
More experiments and source code on GitHub.
Skills
My technology universe
Orbiting constellations of the tools I work with every day — hover a system to explore it.
Cloud & Infra8 skills
DevOps6 skills
Systems5 skills
Backend6 skills
Frontend5 skills
Learning3 skills
Tech Stack
Tools I speak fluently
Hover any technology to see how I use it.
← Hover a technology to see the details →
Certifications
AWS certified, and verifiable
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services · 2025 · valid to 2028
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services · 2024 · valid to 2027
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
Microsoft · 2024
Google Cloud Digital Leader
Google Cloud · 2023
CCNA: Introduction to Networks
Cisco Networking Academy · 2023
Juniper Networks Certified Associate
Juniper Networks · 2023
Full Stack Web Development
Professional Certification · 2022
Education
Where it all started
B.Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering
2019 — 2023Engineering College, India
Relevant Coursework
- · Signals & Systems
- · Digital Electronics
- · Communication Systems
- · Microprocessors & Microcontrollers
- · Computer Networks
- · Embedded Systems
Highlights & Leadership
- · Hackathon winner — applied IoT + web engineering
- · Tech speaker at college events and workshops
- · Led student developer community sessions
Experience
The journey so far
From electronics fundamentals to provisioning and running infrastructure in production.
2024 — PresentTech Lead
GKLT Global Solutions Pvt Ltd · Hyderabad, India
Owning cloud infrastructure and delivery across client projects — most substantially the ManaKrishi drone-agritech platform.
- Built the real-time telemetry backend linking drone transponders to operator dashboards over WebSockets on AWS EC2, streaming live flight data from the field during spray operations
- Designed and deployed a secure multi-tier VPC — isolated subnets, security groups, and least-privilege IAM — to protect farmer records and IoT data streams
- Automated build and deployment with GitHub Actions, removing manual release steps and shortening the cycle from change to production
- Own architecture decisions and code review standards across the team
- Coordinate delivery across mobile, backend, and cloud, bridging hardware concepts with cloud operations
AWSEC2VPCIAMWebSocketsNode.jsGitHub Actions
2023 — 2024Cloud & Full Stack Developer
Independent / GKLT · Remote
Shipped production applications end-to-end and moved client workloads onto infrastructure that could be rebuilt on demand.
- Deployed high-availability three-tier AWS architectures — web, app, and multi-AZ database behind an Application Load Balancer
- Provisioned client infrastructure with Terraform as reusable, version-controlled modules instead of console clicks
- Containerized full-stack services with Docker and standardized deployments across environments via GitHub Actions
- Hardened Linux instances — firewall rules, SSH key policy, routing, and security groups — to reduce exposed attack surface
- Built marketplace and operations platforms end-to-end (Prolance, VisaEnsure)
TerraformDockerAWSLinuxNginxNext.jsMongoDB
2022 — 2023Self-studyCloud & Linux Deep Dive
Self-directed study
A focused year on the fundamentals underneath the cloud — Linux administration, networking, and core AWS services.
- Earned cloud and networking certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP, CCNA, Juniper)
- Deployed first production workloads to AWS
- Learned Linux server administration, routing, and Nginx as a reverse proxy
LinuxNginxAWSNetworking
2019 — 2023educationB.Tech, Electronics & Communication Engineering
Engineering College, India
Where networks, hardware, and systems thinking became familiar — long before any of it moved to a cloud console.
- Led college tech events and hackathon teams
- Built IoT and web projects including a drone-assisted agri prototype
- Won hackathon recognition for applied engineering
Achievements
The work, counted
Every figure here is counted from the projects and certifications on this page — nothing is rounded up.
0
Projects Built
0
Live in Production
0
Technologies Used
0
Certifications
GitHub
Live from my keyboard
Real-time activity from github.com/mahesh123-pro
0
Public Repos
0
Total Stars
0
Followers
Contribution Graph
Top Repositories
Loading repositories…
Toolbox
The workspace behind the work
The 18 tools I reach for every day — from first keystroke to production deploy.
Cloud & Infrastructure
04
04
AWS Console
Cloud provider
Terraform
Infrastructure as code
Docker
Containerized services
Linux
Servers & shell
Delivery
04
04
GitHub Actions
CI/CD pipelines
Nginx
Reverse proxy & TLS
Vercel
Deploys & previews
Postman
API testing
Code & Build
04
04
VS Code
Primary editor
Cursor
AI pair programming
Terminal
Shell & scripting
Git
Version control
Design
02
02
Figma
UI design & prototyping
Canva
Quick brand graphics
AI Assist
02
02
Claude
Coding & reasoning
ChatGPT
Brainstorm & docs
Productivity
02
02
Notion
Docs & planning
GitHub
Code host & CI/CD
Capabilities
What I can build
The four layers I work across — from the VPC underneath to the application running on top.
AWS
Cloud Infrastructure
Designing and running workloads on AWS — multi-AZ VPCs with isolated web, app and database tiers, load balancing, and DNS that fails over instead of falling over.
- VPC, subnet & routing design
- EC2, S3, RDS provisioning
- Load balancing & health checks
- Least-privilege IAM policies
Terraform
Infrastructure as Code
Environments defined in Terraform rather than assembled by hand in a console — so they can be reviewed in a pull request, torn down, and rebuilt identically.
- Reusable Terraform modules
- Version-controlled environments
- Reproducible rebuilds
- Documented variables & outputs
GitHub Actions
CI/CD & Containers
Docker images that behave the same on a laptop and in production, wired into GitHub Actions pipelines that build, test and deploy on every push.
- Dockerized services
- GitHub Actions pipelines
- Automated build & test gates
- Repeatable, rollback-safe deploys
Next.js
Full-Stack Development
The application layer that runs on top — Next.js and Node.js services with REST APIs, authentication, and data models designed for the queries they actually serve.
- Next.js / React frontends
- Node.js & Express APIs
- MongoDB & PostgreSQL schemas
- Auth and access control
The full detail — stack, certifications and project write-ups — is in the resume.
Practice
How I work
Plan it, provision it as code, automate the delivery, then watch it — the same loop on every system I build.
01
Plan & design
Requirements become an architecture before anything is provisioned — network boundaries, security groups, and failure modes decided on paper first.
02
Provision as code
Infrastructure goes in as Terraform, not console clicks. It gets reviewed like application code and can be rebuilt from scratch at any time.
03
Automate delivery
Services are containerized and shipped through a pipeline. Build, test and deploy run on every push, so releasing stops being an event.
04
Observe & iterate
Health checks, logs and metrics go in from day one — so a failure surfaces on a dashboard rather than in a user's message, and rollback is one step.
Always Learning
What I'm exploring now
A developer's edge is curiosity — here's where mine is pointed.
DevOps
Kubernetes
Moving past single-host Docker — pods, services, deployments, and when orchestration is actually worth it.
SRE
Observability
Metrics, logs, and traces that answer "what broke and why" instead of just "something broke".
Cloud
Cloud Architecture
Designing resilient multi-service systems on AWS — VPC layouts, autoscaling, and cost optimization.
IaC
Terraform at Scale
Remote state, workspaces, and reusable modules for infrastructure that more than one person can touch.
Systems
Linux Internals
systemd, networking, and process management — the layer everything else in the stack sits on.
Architecture
System Design
Scalability fundamentals — caching, queues, sharding, and designing for failure.
Testimonials
What clients say
The part of the work that doesn't show up in a screenshot.
“Mahesh took our idea from a rough sketch to a polished product faster than we thought possible. His attention to detail on the UI is genuinely rare.”
“Mahesh keeps the team unblocked and the architecture clean. Clients specifically ask for him on their projects.”
“Working with Mahesh levelled up my own engineering. His code reviews teach you something new every time.”
“He delivered our cloud migration ahead of schedule and cut our hosting costs. Communication was clear from day one.”
“Mahesh took our idea from a rough sketch to a polished product faster than we thought possible. His attention to detail on the UI is genuinely rare.”
“Mahesh keeps the team unblocked and the architecture clean. Clients specifically ask for him on their projects.”
“Working with Mahesh levelled up my own engineering. His code reviews teach you something new every time.”
“He delivered our cloud migration ahead of schedule and cut our hosting costs. Communication was clear from day one.”
FAQ
Questions, answered.
What recruiters and hiring managers usually want to know before a first call.
Usually replies within a day
Still have a question?
If your answer isn't here, send it over — I'll get back to you personally.
Ask me directlyCloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure, and Site Reliability roles — internships or entry-level. That's where the certifications and the hands-on work line up most directly.
Next step
Looking for a
Cloud/DevOps engineer?
Open to Cloud/DevOps internships & entry-level roles, based in Hyderabad · Remote (India). Start with the resume — it has the full stack, certifications, and project detail.
Or email me directly — kolim5263@gmail.com
Contact
Let's build something together
Have a project, an opportunity, or just want to talk tech? My inbox is open.
LocationHyderabad, India
AvailabilityOpen to Cloud/DevOps internships & entry-level roles