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// cloud operations engineer

Mahesh Upreti.

I design, automate, and operate the cloud infrastructure that keeps modern products running — quietly, securely, at scale.

Currently
CloudOps Engineer · Maitri Services
Focus
Infrastructure · Automation · AI on the cloud
Region
Asia / Kathmandu · open to remote

Engineer first, operator always.

I'm a Cloud Operations Engineer with hands-on experience designing scalable cloud environments, hardening CI/CD pipelines, and managing infrastructure as code across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

My day-to-day sits at the intersection of reliability, security, and automation — provisioning the architecture that runs LLM workloads, instrumenting production with Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki, and writing the pipelines that make everything else boring.

I hold a Bachelor's in Electronics, Communication & Information Engineering from IOE, Tribhuvan University, and previously served as Marketing Director at LOCUS, IOE Pulchowk Campus.

The tools I reach for.

Grouped by what they do in production — not by what's trending.

01

Cloud Platforms

  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • Linux
02

Infrastructure as Code

  • Terraform
  • Terragrunt
  • Ansible
  • CloudFormation
03

Containers & Orchestration

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • EKS
  • Fargate
04

CI / CD & Delivery

  • Jenkins
  • Bitbucket Pipelines
  • CodePipeline
  • GitHub Actions
05

Observability

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Loki
  • ELK Stack
  • CloudWatch
06

Security & Compliance

  • AWS Systems Manager
  • IAM
  • Vulnerability scanning
  • Patch automation
07

Data & Databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Ops Manager
  • Airflow
08

AI on the Cloud

  • AWS Bedrock
  • SageMaker
  • Rekognition
  • Comprehend
  • GCP AI
  • Azure AI
09

Languages

  • Python
  • Bash
  • C
  • C++
  • Java

Deployment history.

A small, chronological log of where I've shipped infrastructure.

  1. Jan 2026 — present · Maitri Services

    CloudOps Engineer

    Deployed automated pipelines that orchestrate AI model execution end-to-end, improving operational efficiency and reliability. Provisioned the supporting architecture as code — servers, queues, and the messaging fabric — that lets LLM components talk to each other safely in production.

    • IaC
    • LLM Ops
    • Pipelines
    • AWS
  2. Oct 2023 — Jan 2026 · Viveka Services

    DevSecOps Engineer

    Architected and supported an AI knowledge base on AWS Bedrock with Anthropic Claude. Automated patch management, compliance checks, and vulnerability scanning via AWS Systems Manager. Deployed Apache Airflow on EKS Fargate and built production ETL pipelines. Designed secure CI/CD pipelines across Jenkins, Bitbucket, and AWS CodePipeline with automated security gates. Stood up real-time observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.

    • Bedrock
    • EKS
    • Airflow
    • Prometheus
    • Security
  3. Jun 2023 — Sep 2023 · Viveka Services

    DevSecOps Intern

    Designed and implemented the configuration and infrastructure backbone for Dev, Pre-Prod, and Prod environments — robust, scalable, and secure by default. Built CI/CD pipelines for air-gapped environments with automated deployments and embedded security controls.

    • Air-gapped CI/CD
    • Environments
    • Hardening

A handful of projects.

01 2023

Music Genre Classification

A deep-learning model for music genre classification, developed at IOE Pulchowk Engineering Campus. Designed a neural-network architecture, ran feature extraction and preprocessing, and tuned the model end-to-end to lift classification accuracy.

  • Python
  • Deep Learning
  • Neural Networks
  • Feature Extraction
View on GitHub
02 2023

Nepali Paraphrase Generator

Led a final-year project on Nepali paraphrase generation in Devanagari script — NLP for low-resource languages. Built and preprocessed a custom dataset, fine-tuned language models, and explored sequence-to-sequence architectures to improve paraphrasing quality.

  • NLP
  • Python
  • Seq2Seq
  • Fine-tuning
  • Devanagari
View on GitHub

Products I've shipped.

Real, usable products — built, deployed, and out in the wild for people to actually use.

Fun projects I've built.

Tools that come in handy day-to-day, plus a few I built just for the fun of it. Take what's useful, ignore the rest.

CLI

RepoChat

Chat with any GitHub repository from your terminal. Indexes the whole project and routes questions through the official GitHub Copilot CLI — so there are no API keys, no third-party LLM dashboards to trust. Built for the GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge.

$ pip install git+https://github.com/mahupreti/repochat.git
  • python
  • cli
  • github-copilot
Web

Jay Ghanti

An app built for fun during the election, for people supporting RSP at the time.

jayghanti.web.app ↗
  • web
  • firebase
Web

Mero Maya

A cute app for non-coders to surprise their crush, girlfriend, or loved ones.

meromaya-143.web.app ↗
  • web
  • firebase
Agent

The Corporate Comedian

An AI agent that turns LinkedIn into a comedy stage — a light-hearted take on corporate life. Built on agent.ai.

  • agent.ai
  • llm
Agent

What's Inside

An AI agent that helps you find your perfect search — dig into what's inside and surface exactly what you're after. Built on agent.ai.

  • agent.ai
  • llm

Certifications, Education & Recognition.

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect

    Amazon Web Services

    May 2025
  • Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)

    ISC2

    Nov 2024
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

    Amazon Web Services

    Jun 2023

Education

  • BE in Electronics, Communication & Information Engineering

    IOE, Tribhuvan University — 71.15% · IOE Merit-Based Scholarship

    2018 — 2023
  • +2 Science

    Damak Multiple Campus, Damak, Jhapa

    2016 — 2018
  • SLC

    Himalaya Higher Secondary School, Damak, Jhapa

    2016

Recognition

  • AWS 10,000 AIdeas Competition — Semifinalist

    View article ↗

    Mar 2026
  • Marketing Director — LOCUS 2023

    IOE Pulchowk Campus

    Jan 2022
  • IOE Merit-Based Scholarship

    Tribhuvan University

    Nov 2018
  • Mahatma Gandhi Scholarship

    Government of India

    Nov 2016

Community

  • Children in Technology — Mentor

    Conducted technology-awareness workshops across all seven provinces of Nepal and led a digital-literacy campaign in a remote village — covering global advances in science and tech, cybersecurity basics, and safe, responsible social-media use.

    Nepal

Thoughts, written down.

Short notes on whatever's caught my attention — cloud and code show up a lot, but also ideas, books, and the occasional tangent into something completely unrelated.

Read all posts on dev.to

Let's build something reliable.

Have an infrastructure problem worth solving, or just want to compare notes on cloud automation? I read every message.