Gourav Shah
Chief Tinkerer at Packt
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolGourav Shah is a seasoned DevOps leader and founder with 14 years of experience designing, deploying, and operating high-performance, scalable cloud systems. As founder of Initcron/RealOps and Chief Tinkerer at Agentix Garage, he builds agentic DevOps frameworks and delivers consulting and DevOps-as-a-Service across Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD and multi-cloud environments. He previously led Ops teams at Efficient Frontier/Adobe, managing hundreds of production servers with 24x7 uptime and turning operational needs into repeatable automation and training programs. An experienced educator and author for The Linux Foundation and Packt, he has created flagship courses and trained tens of thousands of engineers through bootcamps and corporate programs. Hands-on across Linux, AWS, Puppet/Chef/Ansible, monitoring and logging, he also contributes to practical open-source projects (e.g., DevOps bootcamp tooling and Sysfoo demos) and blends deep systems skills with a knack for gamified, real-world learning experiences.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at Shivaji University
Marathi, Hindi, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
web-application10
mysql10
jsp10
configuration-management10
supervisord10
jspx10
sup10
front-end-development10
webapp10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
web-development10
devops10
java9
bash9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
udbc/bootcamp
Aug 2018 - Dec 2022
Ultimate Devops Bootcamp Code
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:31 commits, 4 PRs, 40 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Gourav primarily focused on configuring and deploying the catalogue service. Their contributions include setting up the service using `ansible`, defining service configurations within `supervisor`, and adjusting startup parameters. The commits also involved changes to MySQL configuration related to database access and service setup, indicating involvement in infrastructure management and deployment automation.
devops-bootcampdevopsansibledockerkubernetes
schoolofdevops/sysfoo-old
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
Sample java webapp with maven which prints system info
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Contributions summary:Gourav primarily focused on modifying the front-end of the Java web application. They updated the UI, including the title, button text, and descriptions, and integrated system information such as IP address, port, and hostname display. Additionally, the user changed the application's name from "Devops Demo" to "Sysfoo" and altered the image displayed on the page. The version number was also updated in the application.
j2eemavenjava11jettyjava
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