Hey there 👋 I'm Rishikesh

Platform Engineer | DevOps Engineer | AWS Infra Enthusiast ☁️

I automate things so developers can complain about fewer things 😌

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🚀 About Me

• 🔧 Platform / DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience
• ☁️ Building scalable CI/CD infrastructure on AWS
• ⚙️ Terraform + GitHub Actions + Self-Hosted Runners enjoyer
• 💸 Reduced infra costs by $160K+ annually
• 🧠 Automating things before they become annoying
• 🤖 AI-assisted engineer using Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor & friends
• 🐧 Linux believer
• ☕ Runs on caffeine, logs, and trial & error

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🛠️ Tech Stack

☁️ Cloud & Infra

⚙️ CI/CD & Automation

📈 Monitoring & Systems

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📌 What I Work On

• 🚀 CI/CD Infrastructure
• ☁️ AWS Platform Engineering
• ⚙️ Infrastructure Automation
• 🧩 Internal Developer Platforms
• 📦 Container & Artifact Management
• 📈 Monitoring & Reliability Engineering
• 🔐 Secure GitHub Actions Workflows
• 🤖 AI-assisted engineering workflows

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📊 A Few Fun Stats

• 💰 Saved $160K+ in infrastructure costs
• 👨‍💻 Built automation tooling used by 2000+ engineers
• ⚡ Improved CI image pull times from 8 mins → 2 mins
• 🌍 Worked on multi-region CI/CD infrastructure at enterprise scale

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🌱 Currently Exploring

• Advanced AWS Architecture
• AI-assisted automation workflows
• Better developer productivity tooling
• Building cool side projects with Claude Code 😎

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📫 Connect With Me

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while(true){
    automate();
    optimize();
    deploy();
}

⭐️ If it can be automated, I probably already tried automating it.