Nikhil Bhat
Lead Infrastructure Consultant at Thoughtworks
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolNikhil Bhat is a Lead Infrastructure Consultant with 9 years in DevOps and a proven knack for automating friction points across cloud-native and hybrid environments. He has built cloud-agnostic solutions and production-grade tooling—authoring Helm plugins (helm-images, helm-drift), a Terraform provider for GoCD/K3D, and various Prometheus exporters and CLIs—demonstrating deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Consul, Chef/Ansible and observability stacks. Comfortable across AWS, Azure, GCP and OpenStack, he prioritizes outcomes over tools and visualizes end states to drive pragmatic automation. A prolific open-source contributor and creator, he routinely turns ideas into reusable projects (Neuron, Cloudy, Terragen) that accelerate time-to-market. Based in Bengaluru, he combines engineering curiosity with a Google-first problem-solving ethos and a readiness to learn any technology required to ship solutions.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Sai Vidya Institute of TechnologyPre-University College (12th) Biology/Biological Sciences General, Pre-University College (12th) Biology/Biological Sciences General at kle's independent pu college
English, Hindi, Kannada
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Github Skills (41)
difference10
docker10
ci-server10
k3s10
rancher10
resource-management10
drift10
golang10
k3d10
identifier9
gocd-agent9
kubernetes9
terraform9
terraform-provider9
gocd9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nikhilsbhat/terragen
Feb 2021 - Sep 2022
Tool that helps to create the terraform custom provider by creating scaffolds.
Contributions:8 releases, 28 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 6 months
terraformcloudgo-cligolanggolang-cli
nikhilsbhat/gocd-cli
Mar 2023 - Jul 2025
Contributions:23 releases, 72 pushes, 25 tags in 2 years 5 months
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