About

Rithik Bhandari is a skilled DevOps Engineer with a strong background in managing and optimizing cloud infrastructure for high-traffic applications. With over 1.78 years of relevant experience, he has a proven track record of successfully deploying and maintaining complex systems using a variety of tools and technologies. Currently working at smallcase, Rithik is responsible for managing the company's DevOps operations and ensuring high availability and security standards across all deployments. Before joining smallcase, Rithik worked as a DevOps Engineer at Greendeck, where he led the entire shift of Greendeck services from virtual machines to Kubernetes cluster resulting in higher scalability and availability as well as saving $6000 annually in infra costs. He also handled deployment and CI/CD of all microservices using Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, AWS, and Azure services. Rithik introduced monitoring using Grafana and Prometheus of VMS and Kubernetes clusters, leading to higher stability and less outages. He also developed and deployed multiple end-to-end API applications using FastAPI performing CRUD operations on Elasticsearch and MongoDB. Additionally, he automated the entire workflow for a project saving 100+ man-hours monthly using Python and orchestrated 100+ cron jobs on Airflow to manage Greendeck Services. He added multiple features to a Product matching service using Celery, Flask, and Elasticsearch. Rithik holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Symbiosis and has a strong technical background in DevOps, Kubernetes, Elastic Search, MongoDB, AWS, Apache Airflow, CI/CD, Redis, Python, Docker, MySQL, Kafka, Jenkins, Microservices, Flask, Azure, infra, and Software Engineering. He is a proactive and self-motivated individual with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Rithik is passionate about learning new technologies and implementing them in his work to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the systems he manages.