Pushpak Nikude

I’m a DevOps Engineer with 3 years of production experience owning containerized infrastructure from deployment through incident resolution. I bring deep hands-on expertise across the full platform stack—Kubernetes cluster operations, Docker-based service delivery, GitLab CI/CD pipeline authoring, and GitOps workflows via Argo CD and Helm.

I’ve deployed and maintained enterprise-scale systems for Axis Bank, a top-5 Indian private bank, driving a ~20% improvement in system uptime through proactive monitoring and automated recovery. I take a reliability-first mindset—designing for failure, validating under load with k6, and resolving service disruptions before they escalate.

I’m equally comfortable at the Linux internals layer, working with LVM, SELinux, and IPtables for strong operational control, plus performance tuning and system monitoring for stability. I also focus on repeatable, zero-downtime change, using structured pre-deployment validation and rollback readiness for regulated financial services.

From an operations perspective, I build end-to-end disaster recovery: I architected and automated backup and disaster recovery pipelines using rsync for critical security infrastructure, reducing recovery time while meeting banking-grade continuity requirements. I’m looking for high-ownership engineering environments where operational excellence is a team-wide standard, not an afterthought.