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DevOps Engineer · Building pipelines, containers & cloud infra 🚀

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🖥️ About Me

name: Nischal Koirala
role: DevOps Intern @ TechHaus
location: Nepal 🇳🇵
focus:
  - CI/CD Pipeline Automation
  - Container Orchestration (Docker + Kubernetes)
  - Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)
  - Infrastructure as Code (Terraform + Ansible)
currently_learning:
  - Helm package manager
  - AWS DevOps Professional path
  - Advanced Kubernetes patterns
motto: "Automate everything. Break nothing. Repeat."

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🛠️ Tech Stack

☁️ Cloud & Infrastructure

🐳 Containers & Orchestration

🔄 CI/CD

🐧 OS & Scripting

🔧 Version Control & Tools

📊 Observability & Monitoring

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🏆 Current Achievements

Recent, real-world builds shipped at TechHaus & in my homelab

📡 Network Monitoring Stack Router & Switch Observability Built a full monitoring stack for TechHaus's network gear using Prometheus + Grafana, with Alertmanager routing critical alerts straight into Slack for real-time visibility. Prometheus Grafana Alertmanager SNMP Slack	🖥️ Bare-Metal PVE Monitoring Proxmox Host & Guest Observability Deployed a monitoring stack for the company's bare-metal Proxmox VE server hosting multiple VMs/LXCs — tracking RAM, disk (ROM), network I/O throughput, and per-VM/LXC memory usage. Proxmox VE Prometheus Grafana Resource Monitoring
🧪 Local Service Emulator Forked from Vercel Labs Turned a Vercel Labs simulator monorepo into a full, locally-running application — validating and bringing to life 5 service APIs (Google, Twilio, Resend, Stripe & Apple), each containerized with custom Dockerfiles and docker-compose. 📂 Repo: emulate_local Docker Docker Compose API Simulation Vercel Labs	⚙️ InfraOps Portal Vibe-coded K8s Architecture Playground Built an app simulating deep Kubernetes architecture & workflows — Pi-hole for subdomain routing, a full GitOps flow with Helm charts, and ArgoCD for continuous deployment checks. Kubernetes Pi-hole Helm ArgoCD GitOps

Also practiced: Cloud-Init templating on Proxmox VE — a one-shot YAML template approach and a reusable multi-VM template approach — plus foundational Python scripting.

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🚀 Featured Projects

🔷 Kubernetes Cluster Deployment

Container orchestration at scale

• Built full K8s clusters with Deployments, ReplicaSets & namespaces
• Configured IAM roles & access policies for secure cloud resource management
• Used ArgoCD for GitOps-based visual deployment management
• Practiced scaling, rolling updates & troubleshooting lifecycles

Kubernetes ArgoCD YAML IAM GitOps

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🔷 CI/CD Pipeline Automation

From commit to deployment — fully automated

• Built end-to-end pipelines with Jenkins & AWS CodePipeline
• Integrated AWS CodeBuild + CodeDeploy for automated build/deploy
• Git-triggered workflows with version-controlled pipeline configs

Jenkins AWS CodePipeline CodeBuild CodeDeploy CI/CD

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🔷 Static Web App Deployment on AWS

GitHub Actions → S3 → CloudFront → Route 53

• GitHub Actions pipeline for automated React build & S3 deployment
• CloudFront CDN with Origin Access Control (OAC) for secure S3 access
• Custom domain via Route 53, resolved CloudFront 403 & routing issues

GitHub Actions AWS S3 CloudFront Route 53 React

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🔷 Terraform Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure as Code — provision, destroy, repeat

• Provisioned cloud resources with reusable Terraform templates
• Practiced IaC concepts for automated, reproducible environments

Terraform IaC AWS Cloud Provisioning

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🔷 Multi-Node Ansible Lab

SSH → Ansible → Managed infrastructure

• Built multi-node Linux VM environment with passwordless SSH (Ed25519)
• Managed networking with Netplan, static IPs & /etc/hosts resolution
• Automated server config & service management using Ansible playbooks

Ansible Linux SSH Netplan Automation

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💼 Experience

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  DevOps Intern                                          │
│  TechHaus                              2026 – Present   │
│  ──────────────────────────────────────────────────     │
│  Working on real-world DevOps tooling, pipelines        │
│  and cloud infrastructure in a production environment   │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Python Developer                                       │
│  Sisani Technology                   Jan–Nov 2024       │
│  ──────────────────────────────────────────────────     │
│  Backend development, API integration, debugging        │
│  and software workflow exposure                         │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

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📜 Certifications

• 🎓 DevOps — Broadway Infosys (2026) 120-hour course: Linux · Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform · Jenkins · AWS · CI/CD

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📊 GitHub Stats

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🌱 Currently Working On

• Learning Helm package manager in depth
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer preparation
• Deepening Kubernetes production patterns
• Building more real-world CI/CD pipelines at TechHaus

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💬 Let's connect and build cool infrastructure together!