Mahesh Bhoopathi Rao | Junior DevOps Engineer

About Me

Junior DevOps Engineer with hands-on internship experience at PearlThoughts deploying and managing production-grade AWS infrastructure. I specialize in CI/CD automation with GitHub Actions, container orchestration on ECS Fargate, blue/green deployments via AWS CodeDeploy, and infrastructure-as-code using modular Terraform. I am deeply passionate about building scalable, secure, and highly efficient cloud systems.

Experience

DevOps Engineer Intern, PearlThoughts

Jan 2026 – Mar 2026 | Remote

Built and maintained robust CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, automating Docker image builds, ECR pushes, and ECS service deployments.
Implemented AWS CodeDeploy blue/green deployments routing via an Application Load Balancer to eliminate downtime during rollouts.
Provisioned containerised workloads on Amazon ECS using Fargate and Fargate Spot, dramatically reducing compute costs.
Authored modular Terraform configurations (VPC, IAM, ECS, ECR, ALB, Security Groups) with remote state securely stored in S3.
Configured secure Bastion Hosts and implemented comprehensive CloudWatch logging for proactive infrastructure monitoring.

Projects

Continuum Browser

Electron • React • TypeScript • Tailwind | GitHub

A privacy-native desktop browser mapping out a 7-capability security orchestrator (Safe Browsing, Download Quarantine, Runtime Hardening). Engineered a browser-native secure AI Agent and deployed Web Audio API spatial audio.

Automated AWS Container Platform

Terraform • ECS Fargate • CodeDeploy • GitHub Actions

Production-grade 3-tier containerised platform (Nginx → Strapi CMS → PostgreSQL) deployed entirely via modular Terraform inside standard CI/CD workflows.

Cloudflare Edge Deployment

Terraform • Cloudflare Workers/Pages • Bash

Full-stack edge application (serverless V8 backend API + global CDN frontend) managed using Terraform and custom bash automation for rapid deployment.

MEAN Stack Dockerized App

MongoDB • Express • Angular • Node.js • Docker

A full-stack CRUD application fully Dockerized and optimized for production. Integrated a complete CI/CD pipeline for seamless deployment into AWS.

Skills

Cloud & Architecture

AWS EC2/S3/ALB ECS Fargate Lambda & DynamoDB CloudFormation Cloudflare

IaC & Automation

Terraform (Modular) Ansible Wrangler CLI Bash Scripting

CI/CD & Containers

GitHub Actions Docker Kubernetes Nginx

Development

Python JavaScript/TypeScript Swift PostgreSQL

Certifications

AWS APAC Solutions Architecture Virtual Experience

Designed a scalable hosting architecture on Elastic Beanstalk and explained the architecture's cost model.

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Deloitte Technology Job Simulation

Completed intensive coding tasks and proposed robust technical solutions for enterprise client dashboards.

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Security Blue Team – Intro to Python

Hands-on Python scripting and custom network port scanner development designed for critical security tasks.

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DevOps Masterclass (53.5 hrs)

Comprehensive training in CI/CD, deployment automation, cloud networking, and containerization fundamentals.

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