About

Harsh Ajit Khajgiwale is a skilled DevOps Engineer with over 4 years of experience in provisioning highly resilient and optimized mission-critical production infrastructure over the cloud while automating processes and accelerating the pace of delivery. He is proficient in various cloud technologies, including AWS, infrastructure as a code (IaaC), container technologies like Docker and AWS ECS, and CI/CD tools like Jenkins and AWS CodeDeploy, CodeBuild, and CodePipeline. Harsh is also well-versed in monitoring and notification tools like Grafana, Nagios, Pagerduty, AWS Cloudwatch, and ELK, as well as configuration management tools like Puppet and Ansible. He is proficient in programming and scripting languages like Python, Shell, and Java. Apart from his technical skills, Harsh is an avid blogger and poet. He writes blogs and poems on various topics and has two active blogs - https://harshkhajgiwale.blogspot.com and http://poemsofparanoid.blogspot.com. He is open to collaboration with researchers across the global community, comprising versatile domains. Currently, Harsh is working as a Staff Engineer - DevOps at Druva, where he is responsible for designing and implementing the infrastructure and automation solutions that support Druva's cloud-based data protection services. Prior to this, he worked as an Engineer - DevOps at Druva and as a Member - ACM Future of Computing Academy (FCA) at ACM Association for Computing Machinery. Harsh holds an M.Tech degree in Data Sciences and Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Information Technology from International Institue of Information Technology (I²IT). He also has a Science degree from Dr MK Umthe Arts Science and Shri R Mokhare Commerce College, Nagpur, and completed his schooling from Christanand School. Harsh's technical skills include DevOps, AWS, infra, ECS, Puppet, Terraform, CI/CD, Docker, Jenkins, Python, and Java. He has relevant experience of 1.95 years.