whoami

Gaurav Balpande

Cloud & DevOps Engineer/Platform Engineering/MLOps

I design cloud infrastructure, automate deployments, and ship distributed systems that stay up. Most recently I built and shipped AuctionXI — a real-time auction platform running on Kubernetes with a full GitOps pipeline.

gaurav@devops: ~/auctionxi
~/about

About me

I'm a final-year Computer Science student focused on Cloud Computing, DevOps, Platform Engineering, and MLOps. Over the last few months I've been building production-style cloud-native applications on AWS, automating infrastructure with Terraform, and running everything through Kubernetes and GitOps pipelines with ArgoCD.

Lately I've also picked up Go — writing backend services with Gin, JWT auth, and a clean repository/service-layer architecture — and used it to build my flagship project, AuctionXI. On the side, I'm exploring MLOps (MLflow, DVC, Prometheus/Grafana) and the basics of LLMOps — RAG systems and containerized AI workloads.

What I enjoy most is the systems side of engineering: designing infrastructure that's reproducible, automating the boring parts of deployment, and building services that hold up under real traffic.

~/about/whoami.txt
status
open to internships & full-time roles
location
Nagpur, India · open to remote / relocation
education
B.Tech CS, SGGS Institute of Engineering & Technology
grad
2022 – 2026
focus
AWS · Kubernetes · Terraform · ArgoCD · Go
currently
building & shipping AuctionXI
~/skills

Technical skills

Organized the way I actually use them — by layer of the stack.

~/skills/cloud

Cloud Engineering (AWS & Azure)

EC2ECRIAM Route 53S3DynamoDB LambdaSNSAPI Gateway CognitoCloudFormationAzure Fundamentals
~/skills/devops-cicd

DevOps & CI/CD

GitHub ActionsJenkinsDocker ArgoCDGitOpsIaC Continuous IntegrationContinuous Deployment
~/skills/kubernetes

Kubernetes

PodsDeploymentsServices ConfigMapsSecretsIngress NamespacesPVsHelm Cert-ManagerNGINX IngressNetworking & debugging
~/skills/iac

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform modulesNetworkingEC2 IAMECRRoute 53 State managementVariables & outputs
~/skills/backend

Backend Engineering

GoGinJWT Auth PostgreSQLRedisREST APIs MiddlewareClean Architecture
~/skills/mlops

MLOps

MLflowDVCDagsHub PrometheusGrafanaModel versioning Experiment tracking
~/skills/ai-llmops

AI / LLMOps

Hugging FaceRAG Containerized AI workloadsAI orchestration
~/experience

Experience

AWS Cloud Intern

F13 Technologies · Delhi
Dec 2025 — Mar 2026
  • Shipped 3 serverless applications with AWS SAM, cutting manual environment setup by ~3 hours/week.
  • Built Lambda + API Gateway REST endpoints that handle concurrent requests and scale on demand.
  • Designed DynamoDB data models and access patterns to improve query performance and reduce read/write overhead.
  • Implemented JWT-based Cognito authentication for secure, role-aware API access.
  • Wired up Rekognition + SNS for automated image analysis and real-time, event-driven notifications.
  • Deployed frontends on AWS Amplify with secure uploads via S3 presigned URLs.
⚡ 35% faster cold starts 💰 20% lower AWS compute cost (YoY) 📈 5x peak traffic @ 99.9% uptime ✅ 85% test coverage
AWS LambdaAPI Gateway DynamoDBS3 SNSCognito RekognitionSAM PythonJavaScript
~/projects

Projects

From a production-style Kubernetes platform to MLOps pipelines and Android apps.

AuctionXI — Cloud-Native Football Auction Platform

Flagship Project

A cloud-native football auction platform inspired by fantasy sports and football management games. Users join live player auctions with real-time WebSocket bidding, build a squad under a budget cap, and get ranked on team composition and performance — all backed by a Go API and deployed through a full GitOps pipeline on Kubernetes.

Real-time player auction with live WebSocket bidding
JWT authentication & authorization
Squad management & formation analysis
Team scoring & ranking engine
PostgreSQL persistence, Redis caching & sessions
RESTful API architecture
$ deployment pipeline — code to production
01 · CODE

Go + Gin API

Backend service with clean architecture, pushed to GitHub.

02 · CI

GitHub Actions

Build, test, and package the application on every push.

03 · REGISTRY

Docker → ECR

Image built and pushed to Amazon ECR.

04 · GITOPS

ArgoCD Sync

Detects the new image and syncs the cluster state automatically.

05 · CLUSTER

K3s on EC2

Terraform-provisioned EC2 running a K3s Kubernetes cluster.

06 · EDGE

NGINX + TLS

NGINX Ingress with Cert-Manager & Let's Encrypt, serving a custom domain.

GoPostgreSQL RedisDocker Kubernetes (K3s)Terraform ArgoCDGitHub Actions AWS EC2AWS ECR NGINX IngressCert-Manager
Live demo — auctionxi.online ↗ View source on GitHub

End-to-End MLOps Fraud Detection

Production-ready

A production-grade MLOps pipeline using DVC for data/model versioning, MLflow + DagsHub for experiment tracking, and LIME for explainability. Containerized and deployed on AWS EKS with Prometheus + Grafana, automated via GitHub Actions.

⏱ ~5–7 hrs/week saved 🚀 ~40–50% faster train-to-deploy 📡 ~95–97% uptime
DVCMLflow DagsHubAWS EKS PrometheusGrafana
View on GitHub

Dockerized Deployment Pipeline

Deployed

Built Jenkins pipelines to containerize a Zoom-like video app, push images to DockerHub/ECR, and roll out the build on AWS — standardizing Dockerization and infrastructure scripts across environments.

⏱ ~5–6 hrs/week saved 📉 ~40–50% less env drift
JenkinsDocker AWS ECRGitHub
View on GitHub

BetMasterX — Cloud-Native Betting Platform

EKS-ready

A 3-tier app — React, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL (Supabase) — with JWT auth, RBAC, and wallet transactions. Runs locally via Docker Compose and is EKS-ready through Helm charts and ArgoCD (GitOps), with observability via Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry (Jaeger).

🔐 ~35–40% fewer auth issues ⚙️ ~50% better consistency w/ Helm + ArgoCD
ReactFastAPI PostgreSQLHelm ArgoCDOpenTelemetry
View on GitHub

Android Movie Information App

Mobile

An Android app built in Java using a third-party REST API to surface real-time movie data, with a modular architecture and local caching to cut down on redundant network calls.

⚡ ~25–30% faster data retrieval 📉 ~40–50% fewer API calls
JavaAndroid Studio REST APICaching
View on GitHub
~/education

Education & certifications

degree.json

B.Tech in Computer Science

Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Nanded

2022 — 2026
certifications.json

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft