Nitikesh Bhavsar
About Nitikesh Bhavsar
Nitikesh Bhavsar is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Eyeota, specializing in ingress solutions and cloud migration strategies. He holds a Master of Computer Applications degree and has extensive experience in DevOps and automation.
Work at Eyeota
Nitikesh Bhavsar has been employed at Eyeota as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer since 2020. In this role, he is responsible for implementing ingress solutions, including Nginx, HaProxy, and ALB services for Kubernetes (EKS). His work involves the administration of SQL, NoSQL, and storage applications, utilizing technologies such as Kafka, Redis, PLSQL, Scylla, and Snowflake. Additionally, he has engineered an observability matrix for real-time monitoring and alerting, employing tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Loki, and PagerDuty integration.
Education and Expertise
Nitikesh Bhavsar has a strong educational background in computer science and engineering. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at RNC Arts, JDB Commerce & NSC Science College from 2007 to 2010. He furthered his studies by obtaining a Master of Computer Applications from K.K.Wagh Education Society's College of Engineering from 2010 to 2013. Prior to this, he completed his high school education at R.J.E.M.H.School, Nasik, from 1992 to 2005, and studied science at H.P.T Arts, R.Y.K Science and B.Y.K Science College from 2005 to 2007.
Previous Experience at QuestionPro
Before joining Eyeota, Nitikesh Bhavsar worked as a Principal DevOps Engineer at QuestionPro from 2016 to 2020. In this position, he drafted development CI pipeline templates and frameworks that included container vulnerability scanning and static code analysis using GitLab SAST templates. He also designed and implemented a cloud migration strategy that successfully moved over 70% of locally hosted applications and significant amounts of sensitive data to Amazon's cloud-based services.
Technical Skills and Contributions
Nitikesh Bhavsar has demonstrated expertise in automation and orchestration, utilizing tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Python, and Boto to automate tasks for various teams, including product, marketing, dataops, and engineering. He implemented automation to mechanize primary and secondary on-call duties using event orchestration tools like PagerDuty Action and Rundeck, which resulted in a 40% reduction in incident response time. His initiatives have also led to significant cost savings, amounting to $235,000 through addressing long-standing organizational problems.