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Semika Dhakal

@semikadhakal

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Aspiring DevOps engineer specializing in AWS, Terraform, Docker, and CI/CD automation.

Nepal

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What I'm looking for

I seek a hands-on DevOps/cloud role where I can build scalable infrastructure, automate CI/CD, work with collaborative engineering teams, and grow my expertise in cloud-native tools.

I am an aspiring DevOps engineer with hands-on experience in AWS, Terraform, Docker, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines gained through the Leapfrog DevOps Fellowship and practical projects. I focus on building scalable, reliable systems, optimizing container images, and automating infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and orchestration tools.

I have collaborated with industry professionals as a core committee member of a cloud community, supported technical workshops, and deployed containerized applications to AWS ECS (Fargate and EC2). I bring practical experience with virtualization, GitHub Actions pipelines, and a commitment to contributing to collaborative engineering environments.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Core Committee Member

Current

Nepal Cloud Professionals

Jan 2023 - Present (2 years 10 months)

Collaborate with industry professionals to organize cloud computing meetups and DevOps sessions and supported technical workshops on AWS and Terraform best practices.

AWS Terraform Workshop Facilitation Event Coordination DevOps Public Speaking Community Outreach

DevOps Fellow

Leapfrog Technology

Jan 2024 - Dec 2024 (11 months)

Completed a 12-week DevOps fellowship implementing infrastructure-as-code, containerization, and CI/CD by optimizing Docker images, deploying applications to Amazon ECS (Fargate and EC2), and configuring Proxmox/VirtualBox virtualization environments.

Docker AWS ECS Terraform VirtualBox GitHub Actions Ansible CI CD

Intern

IIDE

Sep 2022 - Nov 2022 (2 months)

Assisted in digital marketing operations and campaign tracking using analytics tools to support campaign performance and reporting during a three-month internship.

Digital Marketing Analytics Campaign Tracking HTML CSS Reporting Communication

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Padmakanya Multiple Campus

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Information Technology

2020 -

Activities and societies: IT Executive, Hult Prize Campus Programme; participated in cloud and DevOps projects and campus technical activities.

Pursuing a Bachelor of Computer Science and Information Technology with coursework and projects in software development, cloud deployment, and DevOps practices.