Summary
Akshay Rathod is a Cloud Engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, GCP and Alibaba, currently driving platform reliability at Arista Networks. He brings deep Linux and Red Hat expertise (RHCE) combined with practical DevOps toolchain skills—Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, GitLab and Jenkins—plus experience in secrets management with HashiCorp Vault. His background spans system administration, support at Red Hat, and multiple cloud engineering roles, giving him a strong operational mindset for scalable, secure deployments. Known for scripting and automation using shell and managing Linux clusters, he also has exposure to networking and observability stacks like Squid and Nagios. Based in Pune, he blends enterprise-grade discipline with a developer’s pragmatism and a track record of moving projects from sysadmin roots to cloud-native production.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at JSPMs Jayawantrao Sawant College of Engineering, Handewadi Road, Hadapsar, Pune 28.