About

Raghav Bhat is an accomplished DevOps Architect with over 11 years of experience in architecting, automating, and optimizing mission-critical builds, deployments, and releases over a large infrastructure. He has a strong understanding of the full technology stack with demonstrable client advisory capabilities. Raghav has demonstrated experience in SRE Frameworks and technologies for large, complex digital programs demanding very high reliability and uptime. Raghav has extensive experience with release management, sprint planning, configuration management, infrastructure management, code management, build management using state-of-the-art tools in top-notch high-tech organizations in an Agile software development environment. He has the capability to identify, analyze, and drive problems to resolution, handling complex issues simultaneously while effectively communicating across teams and external clients. Raghav has knowledge of source code control management systems and configuration management, including Perforce, SVN, Git[Bitbucket/Gitlab/Github], and code branching/merging strategies. He has strong experience with Linux and Windows based infrastructures, Linux/Unix administration, and hands-on experience with major cloud platforms like AWS and Azure. Raghav has experience in Infrastructure as code using Puppet, Chef, Terraform, Ansible, Cloud formation, and extensive experience with Jenkins, Bamboo, Build central, concourse, and Cruise control for daily build setup. He has a strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Openshift, Active Directory, MSSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, Make build, Django, Packer, Hadoop, Kafka, ELK, Spunk, fluentd, Maven, Ant, Sonar, and virtualization. He is also proficient in debugging and analyzing complex software systems, including a willingness to deep-dive into all layers of the technology stack. Raghav has good communication skills and team lead experience. He has evaluated different tools and integrated them with existing systems. He is self-motivated and proactive. Raghav has worked as a Site Reliability Architect at icf next and as a DevOps Lead at whatfix and Senior Release Engineer at Red Hat in the past. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology.