Nishad Mehendale
DevOps Engineer III at McDonald's
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolNishad Mehendale is a DevOps Engineer III based in Chicago with seven years of experience building and leading platform and infrastructure automation efforts across enterprise environments. He progressed through multiple engineering and leadership roles at Capgemini—where he led DevOps initiatives, trained 50+ engineers, and implemented platform best practices with Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, Jenkins, Python and AWS—before joining McDonald's to drive platform reliability at scale. Certified in AWS and HashiCorp tools and with hands-on experience in Mulesoft and Cloudhub, he blends systems architecture with practical CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code delivery. Known for creating training programs and contributing to knowledge management, he brings a rare mix of people leadership and deep operational craft. Unexpectedly for an operations-focused engineer, he also holds a postgraduate business diploma, giving him a strategic lens on platform investments and stakeholder alignment.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at St. Francis Institute Of TechnologyPost Graduate Diploma Business Administration and Management General, Post Graduate Diploma Business Administration and Management General at Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
Hindi, Marathi, English, gujrathi, Sanskrit
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Github Skills (18)
aws8
gitops8
kubernetes7
terraform7
glossary7
jupyter-notebook6
datasource6
scikit-learn6
vault6
python6
terraform-provider6
jupyter6
devops5
cicd5
terraform-module4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nishadmehendale/nishadmehendale.github.io
Nov 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
nishadmehendale/website
May 2022 - Jan 2023
🌐 Source code for OpenGitOps website
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
gitopskubernetes
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