Aniket Mandale — DevOps & Cloud Support

About

Systems & Automation Foundation

B.Tech Computer Science graduate transitioning from an IT infrastructure and network engineering internship into DevOps. I combine a grounded Linux, networking, and systems-support foundation with practical experience building automated deployment pipelines, provisioning cloud infrastructure as code, and monitoring environments.

📍 Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Core Engineering Focus

▪ Infrastructure as Code: Provision repeatable resources on AWS using modular Terraform and remote state.
▪ Continuous Delivery: Automate build and deploy workflows via Jenkins and GitHub Actions pipelines.
▪ Observable Systems: Track infrastructure metrics and alerts using Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch.

Skills

Technical Toolkit

Hands-on technologies and tools applied throughout self-learning labs and professional internships.

Cloud Platforms

PRIMARY: AWS · EXPOSURE: AZURE & GCP

AWS (Primary Hands-on): EC2, S3, EBS, IAM, VPC, ELB, ASG, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, RDS, Lambda, EFS, KMS, WAF
Microsoft Azure (Working Exposure): VMs, Load Balancer, Scaling, Storage, ARM Templates, Entra ID, Azure DevOps
Google Cloud (Working Exposure): Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Instance Templates

Containers & Orchestration

DOCKER · K8S · GITOPS

Docker (Images, Compose, Networking, Volumes, Portainer)
Kubernetes (Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps/Secrets, RBAC, HPA, Namespaces, Helm, Kustomize, Kops, Kubeadm, EKS, CRDs, Network Policies)
ArgoCD

CI/CD & Version Control

JENKINS · ACTIONS · GIT

Jenkins (Declarative & Scripted Groovy Pipelines, Master-Slave, Webhooks, Cron/PollSCM)
GitHub Actions
GitLab
Git & GitHub
Maven
Nexus / Artifactory

Infrastructure as Code

TERRAFORM · ANSIBLE

Terraform (Modules, Workspaces, State Management, Terraform Cloud/HCP, Sentinel Policy)
Ansible (Playbooks, Roles, Vault, Ad-hoc Commands)

Monitoring & Logging

PROMETHEUS · GRAFANA

Prometheus
Grafana
AWS CloudWatch
Dynatrace
Loki & Promtail

Programming & Systems

LANGUAGES · OS · NETWORKING

Python
Groovy (Jenkins Pipeline DSL)
Bash / Shell Scripting
Linux (Red Hat, Ubuntu)
Windows Server
DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP
VPC Networking
SonarQube, Trivy, OWASP (Explored)

AI & Automation

Where AI Fits Into My Workflow

Applying modern AI tooling practically to accelerate deployment workflows and automate toil.

Vishwaas AI — Fake News Verification Tool

An AI-powered verification utility built with Python to analyze forwarded text messages and screenshots, with logic structured to process regional language inputs across Indian dialects.

PythonAI VerificationMultilingual Logic

AI in Day-to-Day DevOps Practice

I use generative AI tooling as a force multiplier for scripting and operations: drafting initial Terraform resource definitions, constructing Bash automation boilerplate, synthesizing regex filters for logs, and reasoning through error traces—verifying and testing every artifact manually.

Projects

Personal Projects

Vishwaas AI — Fake News Detector

PYTHON · AI VERIFICATION · MULTILINGUAL

Built an AI-powered verification tool using Python to analyze forwarded text messages and screenshots.
Implemented logic to process user inputs across multiple Indian languages to help users assess the authenticity of regional claims.

View Repository on GitHub →

Cloud DevOps Practice Academy

INTERACTIVE PLATFORM · INTERVIEW PREPARATION

Developed an interactive, quiz-based platform to help entry-level engineers practice core DevOps concepts for technical interviews.
Designed straightforward modular assessments for foundational topics.

View Repository on GitHub →

Practice Projects

Self-Learning Labs

Self-driven, hands-on implementations built to simulate real cloud and pipeline architectures.

Containers & GitOps
Microservices Deployment with Docker, Kubernetes & ArgoCD Containerized a sample microservice application with Docker and deployed it to a Kubernetes cluster. Set up GitOps-based continuous deployment for the cluster using ArgoCD.
Explore on GitHub →
CI/CD Automation
CI/CD Pipeline Automation Configured a Jenkins pipeline using declarative Groovy syntax in a Jenkinsfile to automate build, test, and deployment stages for a sample application. Built a multi-job GitHub Actions workflow for continuous integration.
Explore on GitHub →
Cloud IaC
3-Tier Infrastructure Provisioning on AWS Designed and provisioned a 3-tier architecture (web, application, database layers) on AWS using Terraform modules. Provisioned VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, and remote state in an S3 backend.
Explore on GitHub →
Config Management
Configuration Management & Deployment Automation Automated server configuration, package installation, and application deployment using Ansible playbooks and roles on AWS EC2.
Explore on GitHub →
Observability
Infrastructure Monitoring Practice Set up monitoring dashboards and alerting rules using Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch to track infrastructure and application health.
Explore on GitHub →

Journey

Experience & Education

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Junior Network Engineer Intern
Xceller IT Services, Nagpur · Dec 2024 – Jun 2025
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B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering
G H Raisoni College of Engineering and Management (Autonomous)
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H.S.C (12th)
H & T Jr. college (MSBSHSE)
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S.S.C (10th)
St. Xavier's (CBSE)

Building reliable cloud deployments and automated pipelines.