Summary
Pratik Bandarkar is a seasoned cloud engineer with 9 years’ experience specializing in OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Linux platform engineering, currently working as an OpenStack and Kubernetes Cloud Engineer V at Rackspace UK. He brings deep hands‑on expertise in building and supporting IaaS using KVM, RHEV, OpenStack and Ceph, and holds multiple Red Hat and Kubernetes certifications (RHCE, RHEV, CKA/CKAD/CKS, OpenShift exams). Pratik has a strong track record resolving complex customer issues, automating deployments with SaltStack and Ansible, and tuning NFV components such as SR-IOV, NUMA, HugePages and PCI passthrough for production environments. Comfortable across support, consulting and automation roles, he has migrated workloads between VMware, KVM, RHEV and OpenStack and advised on HA versus non‑HA architectures. Based in Stevenage, he pairs practical troubleshooting skills with architecture-level thinking and a penchant for scripting to simplify repeatable cloud operations.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
SSC, SSC at R.N.RAUT
B.Tech, I.T., B.Tech, I.T. at Doctor Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University
English, Marathi, Hindi