$ whoami

Chaitanya.

Team Lead, Technical Support at Indio Networks — moving into DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure.

Four years deep in firewalls, VPNs, and production Linux systems, now building the automation, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure side of the same skill set. Comfortable being the person a network calls when something's on fire.

Pune, India Open to DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure / Technical Solutions roles CEH (v13) · AWS Solutions Architect – Associate
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career path

$ traceroute career.path

tracing route to devops-engineer over a maximum of 3 hops
1
Technical Support Engineer Oct 2022
Indio Networks
first hop — enterprise networking, firewall support, Linux/FreeBSD systems
2
Team Lead, Technical Support Current
Indio Networks
GitLab CI/CD administration, Python automation, production incident response
3
DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure Engineer * request timed out
— target —
AWS-certified, CI/CD-tested, actively routing this direction
skills

$ cat /etc/routes.table

Interface
Destination
Metric
cloud0
AWS — VPC, EC2, IAM, S3, networking fundamentals (SAA-certified)
active
cicd0
GitLab CI/CD — pipeline design, self-hosted instance administration, PAT/least-privilege access
active
py0
Python — automation tooling, raw-socket network utilities, scripting
active
sys0
Linux & FreeBSD — production administration, incident recovery, systems troubleshooting
active
net0
Networking & Firewalls — Palo Alto, OPNsense/pfSense, VPN (IPsec/OpenVPN), VLANs, QoS, DNS
active
sec0
Security — threat analysis, malware detection stacks, ethical hacking (CEH v13)
active
selected work

$ ls -la ./projects

TOOLING

Rogue DHCP Detector

Built a Python tool using raw sockets to detect unauthorized DHCP servers on the network. Deployed to production gateway devices to catch a class of outage before it takes the network down.

Pythonraw socketsnetworking
MIGRATION

Firewall Migration — pfSense → OPNsense

Led a production firewall migration for an enterprise client onto an OPNsense-based platform, covering dual-ISP failover, HAProxy, OpenVPN, IPsec, and Unbound DNS.

OPNsenseHAProxyIPsec/OpenVPN
DEPLOYMENT

Customer Portal Deployment

Deployed a FastAPI + React customer portal for a network security appliance, resolving build failures, database registration issues, and nginx configuration end to end.

FastAPIReactnginx
PLATFORM

GitLab CI/CD Administration

Administers a self-hosted GitLab instance, onboarding developers with least-privilege access scoping and authoring internal CI/CD documentation used by the team.

GitLab CI/CDLinuxaccess control
certifications

$ gpg --verify credentials.asc

AWS

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Cloud architecture, VPC networking, IAM, and core AWS infrastructure services.

CEH

Certified Ethical Hacker (v13)

EC-Council — offensive security fundamentals and threat analysis methodology.