About me
I help teams ship faster by turning fragile infra into reliable delivery paths — CI/CD, automation, and platforms developers actually want to use.
At Dell Technologies I’ve dug into complex GitLab and dependency issues with customers and vendors, automated painful ops, and hardened security gaps that slowed teams down. I’ve reduced system failures 50% through better platform practices, and I’m leveling up cloud-native delivery (containers, IaC, Kubernetes) plus Agentic / Generative AI so platforms stay useful as AI enters the SDLC.
Core themes: DevOps · Platform Engineering · CI/CD · GitLab · Kubernetes · Automation · Cloud · Developer productivity. Building in public: devops-mastery-guide on GitHub (Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Prometheus/Grafana).
You can reach me at deepakv.knit@gmail.com
Skills & Technologies
My technical expertise and tools I work with
DevOps & CI/CD
GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Maven, Gradle
Cloud & Container
AWS (EC2, S3, ECS, Lambda), Docker, Kubernetes, Container Orchestration, Microservices
Security & Monitoring
DevSecOps, SonarQube, Trivy, OWASP, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, APM Tools
System Administration
Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS), Shell Scripting, Python, System Automation, Performance Tuning
Version Control
Git, GitLab Administration, GitHub, Branch Strategies, Code Review Workflows
Emerging Tech
MLOps, AIOps, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, Observability, SRE Practices
Experience & Achievements
Professional journey and recognition
Professional Experience
DevOps / Platform Engineer
Software Engineer 2 - DevOps · Dell Technologies · Bengaluru · Jun 2019 – Present
- Administered GitLab for 200+ engineers; optimized 50+ CI/CD pipelines reducing deployment time by 65%
- Implemented ArgoCD GitOps + Kubernetes (EKS) for 15+ microservices with zero-downtime releases
- Embedded DevSecOps: Trivy, SonarQube & OWASP scanning in pipelines; remediated 200+ critical vulnerabilities
- Built Terraform IaC modules for multi-account AWS infrastructure & monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK)
- Reduced system failures 50% through better platform practices
Key Achievements
Industry Recognition: Received internal award for DevOps automation excellence & infrastructure optimization (2024)
Performance Improvement: Reduced system failures 50%; cut CI/CD deployment time by 65% and reduced failed deploys by 80% via GitLab + ArgoCD GitOps
Security Excellence: Embedded automated scanning (Trivy/Sonar) achieving 95%+ vulnerability remediation SLA
Knowledge Sharing: Active technical blogger (Medium) + internal workshops on DevOps, Linux & Kubernetes best practices
Innovation: Architected GitOps platform and Terraform modules adopted across multiple teams
Education
Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology
Bachelor’s, Electronics
Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology (KNIT) · 2011 – 2015
Grade: A+
Certifications & Credentials
LinkedIn-verified credentials from Red Hat, Dell, and iNeuron
Projects
Explore some of my work
Featured DevSecOps Projects
Learning Path
DevOps Mastery Guide
- Problem
- Scattered tutorials skip the path from a Linux shell to a running, observed app.
- Approach
- Mental models and 15-minute labs (Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana) plus two capstones: Full CI/CD pipeline and Terraform + Ansible + Vault.
- Result
- Live guide with labs and both capstones shipped.
Web App
Apna Hisab
- Problem
- Splitting trip, dinner, and flatmate bills by hand is slow and easy to get wrong.
- Approach
- React + Firebase PWA that tracks group balances and settles via UPI (GPay, PhonePe, Paytm, BHIM).
- Result
- The app is live: split expenses and know who owes whom.
GitOps · Private
GitLab CI/CD + ArgoCD GitOps on EKS
- Problem
- Microservices needed a repeatable path from commit to Kubernetes without manual deploys.
- Approach
- GitLab CI builds and tests, Trivy scans, then ArgoCD GitOps with Helm onto EKS.
- Result
- Cut CI/CD deployment time by 65% and reduced failed deploys by 80%; 15+ microservices with zero-downtime releases.
Blog
Here are some articles posted on medium
DevOps
DevOps 101: A Beginner’s Guide
DevOps is more than just a set of tools — it’s a transformative culture that bridges development and operations, helping teams collaborate and deliver value faster...
Shell Scripting
Getting started with Shell Scripting
Here, we will try to cover basic terminologies used in shell scripting and will try to get a bigger picture of what shell scripting is not. We will try to bust the myth...
Amazon Web Services
Kick-start your AWS Cloud journey within 10 minutes
This article will help you to kick-start your AWS cloud journey by knowing about the basics and being familiar with the jargon used in AWS. What Is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery...