About

Chetan Bothra is a seasoned IT professional with over 10 years of experience in various roles including QA, software development, DevOps, DevSecOps, team management, and project management. He is passionate about implementing DRY and KISS principles in DevOps and automation to the maximum level. JIRA, TODOist, and Confluence are his biggest strengths. Chetan is always exploring new stacks and options and staying up-to-date with the latest tech trends by reading newsletters, participating in Slack channels, and contributing to open-source projects on Github. Chetan is a skilled team leader who keeps his team motivated and ensures smooth progress. He is currently managing a team of 7 DevOps and SRE professionals. He is focusing on offline DevSecOps and cost optimization, and he is proficient in using tools like HashiCorp Vault and prowler. Chetan's tech stack includes AWS, Git, Jenkins, Terraform, Dockers, Kubernetes, Vault, prowler, SSO, Python, Ansible, and more than 70 AWS services like IAM, EC2, ECS, EKS, and RDS. He is a master at deploying applications like WP, ReactJS, Laravel, and NodeJS. Chetan's workflow when given a new project involves understanding and designing a multi-tier architecture diagram, implementing it via IAC (terraform), setting up CI/CD, monitoring performance and alerts, and optimizing costs. He is currently preparing for AWS Security Speciality as well as Solution Architect - professional certification. Chetan has worked as a software engineer, QA, ROR developer, and system admin in his past roles. He is currently working as a Project Manager at Bitcot.