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Smile Kisan
Open to remote DevOps roles worldwide, or relocation

Smile KisanDevOps EngineerEngineering reliable systems from code to cloud.

DevOps engineer with 1.5+ years across AWS infrastructure, CI/CD automation and containerized platforms, with hands-on experience leading infrastructure work and supporting production systems. Currently building AutoDeploy and LearnInclusive end-to-end while open to new opportunities.

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01About

I make deployment boring.

Most outages are not exotic. They are a manual step someone forgot, a config that drifted, or a signal nobody was watching. My work is removing those three failure modes from a team's delivery path.

I came to infrastructure through software engineering — at Terakoya Academia I progressed from intern to infrastructure lead, which shapes how I still approach it: pipelines are products, runbooks are interfaces, and the people deploying under pressure are the users.

  • Automate the repetitive

    If a human does it twice, it becomes a pipeline stage. Manual steps are unreviewed, untested code.

  • Observe the important

    Dashboards nobody reads are decoration. Instrument the handful of signals that predict user pain.

  • Secure the critical

    Scanning in CI, least-privilege by default, secrets that never touch a repository. Security is a build stage, not an audit.

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  • 75%

    Faster deployments

    CI/CD migrated to Jenkins + SonarQube at Terakoya Academia

  • 99.9%

    System uptime

    Sustained across critical infrastructure at Fortray Global Services

  • 1.5+

    Years in infrastructure

    Combined across Terakoya Academia and Fortray Global Services

  • 80%

    Manual work reduced

    Automated monitoring & alerting with PowerShell and Bash

02Experience

A decade of learning, two engineering roles, one focus.

From application development to leading infrastructure for production systems — each role building toward deeper ownership of how software actually runs.

  1. Building AutoDeploy & LearnInclusive

    Independent projects

    Now

    Building two platforms end-to-end — AutoDeploy, a DevOps automation platform aimed at companies, and LearnInclusive, an accessibility-first LMS that's more personal: a social-impact project I care about independently of where it leads. Open to remote DevOps roles worldwide, or relocation.

    • Terraform
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • Supabase
  2. Junior DevOps Engineer (Intern, Hybrid)

    Fortray Global Services Limited

    United Kingdom

    2024–25

    Managed the GitLab/Nexus toolchain across critical infrastructure and led troubleshooting for production issues alongside developers and security engineers.

    Key achievements

    • Managed the enterprise-wide DevOps toolchain (GitLab, Nexus) across varied deployment strategies, sustaining 99.9% uptime on critical infrastructure.
    • Automated monitoring and alerting with PowerShell and Bash, cutting manual intervention by 80% and improving incident response time.
    • Led root-cause troubleshooting for production issues, implementing proactive measures to improve system resilience.
    • Built monitoring dashboards and automated alerting in Prometheus and Grafana for latency-sensitive applications.
    • Implemented DevSecOps practices to keep security compliance built into the deployment pipeline, not bolted on after.
    • GitLab CI
    • PowerShell
    • Prometheus
    • Grafana
  3. Relocated to the UK for a Master's

    M.Sc. Advanced Computer Science — Distinction, Cardiff Metropolitan University

    Cardiff, United Kingdom

    2022–23

    Moved to Cardiff to study cloud computing and distributed systems, completing a dissertation on infrastructure automation. Worked part-time as restaurant crew to support the move while studying.

    • Cloud Computing
    • Distributed Systems
  4. Software Engineer → DevOps Engineer

    Terakoya Academia

    Nepal

    2020–22

    Progressed from intern to Infrastructure Team Lead, taking ownership of AWS infrastructure, automation and deployment workflows.

    Key achievements

    • Progressed from intern to Infrastructure Team Lead / DevOps Engineer, owning cloud infrastructure and deployment workflows.
    • Designed and automated AWS infrastructure across EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, ECS, ECR, Lambda and API Gateway.
    • Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, improving environment consistency and cutting manual deployment effort.
    • Migrated CI/CD to Jenkins with SonarQube vulnerability scanning built into every build — a 75% faster release cycle.
    • Containerized applications with Docker and ran Kubernetes workloads: scheduling, deployments, services, cluster-level troubleshooting.
    • AWS
    • Terraform
    • Jenkins
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
  5. Academic foundation

    Computing diplomas, then a B.Sc. (Hons)

    Nepal

    2015–19

    Level 4 and 5 Diplomas in Computing through NCC Education at Softwarica College, followed by a B.Sc. (Hons) in Computing — First Class — through Leeds Beckett University at The British College, Nepal.

    • Computing
    • Programming Fundamentals
03Projects

Selected projects.

Real problems, the systems built to fix them, and what changed as a result.

04GitHub

What's actually shipping.

Pulled live from the GitHub API — real repositories, real activity, not a static list that goes stale.

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05Stack

The tools, and how they connect.

Grouped by the job they do rather than ranked by confidence. Selecting one highlights the tools it genuinely works alongside.

Cloud

Orchestration

Infrastructure as code

Delivery

Observability

Databases

Languages

Select a technology to see how it fits the workflow, which tools it works alongside, and which case study actually uses it.

06Certifications

Verified, not just claimed.

Certification is a floor, not a ceiling — but it is a useful, checkable floor.