Available for collaboration · Bhopal, India
⬡ LVL 8 · DevOps Lead · 7+ yrs played

Utkarsh Bhargava

I architect cloud-native platforms — automated, observable, and ready for scale.

Experience
7+ years
Based in
Bhopal, India
Specialty
Cloud-native DevOps
Currently
Tech Lead @ Netlink
mission_control — zsh● online
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KubernetesAzureAWSTerraformGitLab CIJenkinsDockerHelmPrometheusGrafanaAnsibleKafkaRedisMongoDBNGINXHAProxySonarQubeTrivyOpenTelemetry

// Character profile

Class: DevOps Lead. Spec: cloud-native.

Since 2018 I've grown from intern to Technical DevOps Lead at Netlink — designing scalable, secure cloud-native systems, leading platform teams, and bridging dev and ops with automated CI/CD pipelines, cloud migrations, and resilient infrastructure. I care about reliability, developer experience, and shipping with confidence.

I lean on a strong understanding of the SDLC, deep cloud expertise (Azure, AWS, GCP), and a love for clean automation. The favorite part of my work is making complex platforms feel boring — predictable deployments, fast feedback, and dashboards that tell the truth.

// Skill tree

Abilities unlocked.

Every branch levelled through production battles — cloud, automation, observability and data.

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Tools

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Clouds

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Years

Cloud & Containers

Multi-cloud platform engineering — from bare clusters to production-grade AKS.

  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Docker Swarm
  • Containerd
  • Helm
LVL 96550 / 1000 xp

CI/CD & Automation

Pipelines that ship on every commit — infra as code, zero manual steps.

  • Jenkins
  • GitLab CI
  • Azure DevOps
  • Ansible
  • Terraform
  • Git
  • SVN
  • Bash Scripting
LVL 95720 / 1000 xp

Traffic & Ingress

  • NGINX
  • HAProxy
  • Kubernetes Ingress
  • Apache Tomcat
LVL 94890 / 1000 xp

Observability

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Datadog
  • New Relic
  • OpenTelemetry
LVL 93660 / 1000 xp

Security & Quality

  • SonarQube
  • Trivy
  • Pipeline-embedded scanning
LVL 92830 / 1000 xp

Data & Streaming

  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Oracle
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Kafka
  • Debezium
LVL 91600 / 1000 xp
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Development

  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • Node.js
  • Python
  • ERPNext
LVL 90770 / 1000 xp

Leadership

  • Team mentoring
  • Agile delivery
  • Cross-functional coordination
  • SDLC alignment
LVL 89940 / 1000 xp

// Achievements

Trophies unlocked.

Production campaigns completed — each with a measurable boss-fight result.

legendary

🏆 01 · Lumenore BI Platform

On-prem → Azure AKS Migration

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Architected and led the full migration of a production BI platform from on-premise Kubernetes to Azure AKS — research, QA, UAT, beta and production — with zero data loss and minimal downtime. Stood up ACR and a containerized Spark cluster along the way.

data loss across 5 environments

  • Azure AKS
  • ACR
  • Spark
  • Kubernetes
  • MongoDB HA
epic

🏆 02 · Platform Re-architecture

Docker Swarm → Kubernetes

+30%

Spearheaded the move from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes for the entire product: engineered custom images, built the ingress layer, and re-shaped deployment workflows for the new platform.

scalability, +25% performance

  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Ingress
  • NGINX
epic

🏆 03 · Performance Engineering

Redis Cluster Caching Layer

+40%

Designed and deployed a redis-cluster on Kubernetes to introduce platform-wide caching — transforming system responsiveness for every user of the product.

system responsiveness

  • Redis
  • Kubernetes
  • Caching
rare

🏆 04 · Developer Experience

CI/CD & Code Quality Platform

100%

Orchestrated GitLab CI/CD pipelines end-to-end and embedded SonarQube + Trivy scanning into every build — automated deployments with security and quality gates built in, not bolted on.

automated, quality-gated deploys

  • GitLab CI
  • SonarQube
  • Trivy
  • Automation

// Campaign — quest log

The 7-year campaign.

From tutorial level to final boss — every quest completed on the road from intern to Technical DevOps Lead.

  1. ◉ Quest active

    Quest 05 · +12500 XP

    Technical DevOps Lead · Netlink

    Aug 2024 — Present
    • Lead platform & DevOps initiatives across Azure, AWS and GCP — driving cloud-native transformation and automated delivery.
    • Embed SonarQube and Trivy into CI pipelines for continuous code-quality and vulnerability scanning.
    • Architect resilient infra: multi-cluster Kubernetes, ingress strategy, observability with Prometheus/Grafana/Datadog.
    • Mentor engineers, run agile delivery, and align DevOps practice with the broader SDLC.
  2. ✓ Completed

    Quest 04 · +10000 XP

    Senior Software Engineer · Netlink

    May 2021 — Jul 2024
    • Led migration of Lumenore (BI tool) from on-prem Kubernetes to Azure AKS with zero data loss across research, QA, UAT, beta and production.
    • Stood up Azure Container Registry and a containerized Spark cluster inside Lumenore for higher processing throughput.
    • Deployed a 3-node MongoDB HA cluster on Kubernetes for reliability and fault tolerance.
    • Orchestrated GitLab CI/CD pipelines and rolled out SonarQube to enforce code-quality gates org-wide.
  3. ✓ Completed

    Quest 03 · +7500 XP

    Software Engineer · Netlink

    Jan 2020 — Apr 2021
    • Migrated Lumenore from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes — 30% scalability gain, 25% performance improvement.
    • Engineered custom Docker images (incl. Python workloads) for a 20% boost in deployment efficiency.
    • Introduced redis-cluster on Kubernetes for caching — 40% improvement in system responsiveness.
    • Built ingress controller for the Lumenore domain to optimize traffic management and tighten security.
  4. ✓ Completed

    Quest 02 · +5000 XP

    Associate Software Engineer · Netlink

    Aug 2018 — Jan 2020
    • Implemented DevOps practices to streamline deployments and platform operations for Lumenore.
    • Optimized physical servers across environments via Docker Swarm clustering.
    • Partnered with Spring Boot, Node.js and Python developers on backend operability.
  5. ✓ Completed

    Quest 01 · +2500 XP

    DevOps Intern · Netlink — Lumenore

    8 months
    • Built Java-based tooling as part of the Lumenore DevOps team.
    • Streamlined deployment processes — 20% efficiency improvement.
    • Resolved Java application incidents — 15% reduction in downtime.

// Player stats

High scores.

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Scalability

Docker Swarm → Kubernetes migration of Lumenore

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Responsiveness

redis-cluster caching layer on Kubernetes

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Data loss

Cloud migration to Azure AKS across all envs

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Years

Building & leading DevOps at Netlink

// Education

MCA — Computers

Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya (RGPV), Bhopal

2018 · 71%

BCA — Computer Applications

Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya (RGPV), Bhopal

2016 · 70%

// Bonus level

Play my story.

Three cartridges in the cabinet. DevOps Journey 3D replays my actual career — every gate is a real role, every orb a real tool. Tech Stack is exactly what it sounds like: stack containers sky-high, one perfect zero-downtime deploy at a time. Pipeline Runner is the daily grind: dodge the incidents, drink the coffee.

◉ DevOps Journey 3D

score 0best 0♥♥♥
2018 · internnow · lead

DevOps Journey

Relive the climb: 2018 intern → Technical DevOps Lead. ←/→ to switch lanes · collect skills · dodge incidents.

← → / A D / swipe — switch lanes

orbs +100 · gate +500 & +1 ♥ · finish +2000

// Co-op mode

Join my party. Let's raid production together.

Cloud migrations, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD strategy — or just trading DevOps war stories. Send a party invite below; I usually accept within a day.

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