Bakki Mahesh

Cloud & DevOps Engineer @ GKLT

I break things on purpose in a test environment so they never break in production. I'm a cloud and DevOps engineer, AWS-certified (Solutions Architect – Associate and Cloud Practitioner), and I spend most of my time turning "it works on my machine" into infrastructure that scales, recovers, and deploys itself.

My hands-on work is where the learning actually happened. On the ManaKrishi platform I built the real-time telemetry backend for drone-based crop spraying, streaming live flight data from the field to operator dashboards over WebSockets. I designed a secure, multi-AZ three-tier VPC on AWS using Terraform, separating web, app and database tiers behind an Application Load Balancer. I containerized services with Docker and automated builds and deployments through GitHub Actions, so shipping a change went from a manual chore to a single push.

Along the way I've hardened Linux servers, written IAM policies that follow least-privilege, and provisioned EC2, S3, RDS, VPC and Route 53 across several projects. My background is Electronics and Communication Engineering, which is where I got comfortable with networks, hardware and systems thinking before I ever touched the cloud. Right now I'm going deeper on Kubernetes and observability.

Name

Bakki Mahesh

Role

Cloud & DevOps Engineer

Company

GKLT Global Solutions Pvt Ltd

Location

Hyderabad · Remote (India)

Focus

Cloud · DevOps · Infrastructure

Status

Open to Cloud/DevOps internships & entry-level roles

“I break things on purpose in a test environment so they never break in production.”

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1. 

   2024 — Present Current

   Tech Lead

   GKLT Global Solutions Pvt Ltd Hyderabad, India

   Owning cloud infrastructure and delivery across client projects — most substantially the ManaKrishi drone-agritech platform.

   • Built the real-time telemetry backend linking drone transponders to operator dashboards over WebSockets on AWS EC2, streaming live flight data from the field during spray operations
   • Designed and deployed a secure multi-tier VPC — isolated subnets, security groups, and least-privilege IAM — to protect farmer records and IoT data streams
   • Automated build and deployment with GitHub Actions, removing manual release steps and shortening the cycle from change to production
   • Own architecture decisions and code review standards across the team
   • Coordinate delivery across mobile, backend, and cloud, bridging hardware concepts with cloud operations

   AWSEC2VPCIAMWebSocketsNode.jsGitHub Actions
2. 

   2023 — 2024

   Cloud & Full Stack Developer

   Independent / GKLT Remote

   Shipped production applications end-to-end and moved client workloads onto infrastructure that could be rebuilt on demand.

   • Deployed high-availability three-tier AWS architectures — web, app, and multi-AZ database behind an Application Load Balancer
   • Provisioned client infrastructure with Terraform as reusable, version-controlled modules instead of console clicks
   • Containerized full-stack services with Docker and standardized deployments across environments via GitHub Actions
   • Hardened Linux instances — firewall rules, SSH key policy, routing, and security groups — to reduce exposed attack surface
   • Built marketplace and operations platforms end-to-end (Prolance, VisaEnsure)

   TerraformDockerAWSLinuxNginxNext.jsMongoDB
3. 

   2022 — 2023Self-study

   Cloud & Linux Deep Dive

   Self-directed study

   A focused year on the fundamentals underneath the cloud — Linux administration, networking, and core AWS services.

   • Earned cloud and networking certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP, CCNA, Juniper)
   • Deployed first production workloads to AWS
   • Learned Linux server administration, routing, and Nginx as a reverse proxy

   LinuxNginxAWSNetworking
4. 

   2019 — 2023Education

   B.Tech, Electronics & Communication Engineering

   Engineering College, India

   Where networks, hardware, and systems thinking became familiar — long before any of it moved to a cloud console.

   • Led college tech events and hackathon teams
   • Built IoT and web projects including a drone-assisted agri prototype
   • Won hackathon recognition for applied engineering