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 (38)
difference10
k3s10
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k3d10
gocd-agent9
ci-server9
kubernetes9
rancher9
docker9
golang9
k8s9
go8
drift8
gocd8
helm8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nikhilsbhat/helm-drift
Mar 2023 - Dec 2024
Helm plugin that identifies the configuration that has drifted from the Helm chart
Contributions:10 releases, 17 PRs, 73 pushes in 1 year 9 months
diffdriftdrift-detectiongolanghelm
nikhilsbhat/terraform-provider-gocd
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Terraform provider for GoCD, which helps in performing certain operations on GoCD
Contributions:12 releases, 31 commits, 7 PRs in 2 months
cici-cdcicdgogocd
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