About me

Hi, Iโ€™m Krishna Bagal, a DevSecOps & Cloud Enthusiast with more than a decade of experience helping businesses build secure, scalable, and highโ€‘performing infrastructure.

Currently, I lead the DevOps team at Hopscotch, where my focus is on driving innovation, automation, and reliability across our cloud ecosystem. My work revolves around ensuring that applications run smoothly, securely, and can scale effortlessly to meet growing business demands.

    My expertise spans across:

    • - โ˜๏ธ Cloud Platforms: AWS.
    • - ๐Ÿณ Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes.
    • - ๐Ÿ”„ CI/CD Tools: Jenkins.
    • - ๐Ÿ—๏ธ Infrastructure as Code: CloudFormation, Terraform.
    • - ๐Ÿ“Š Data Instrumentation: Metabase.
    • - ๐Ÿ“ˆ Data Analytics: Amplitude.
    • - ๐Ÿ”„ Orchestration of Data Pipelines: Airflow.
    • - โš™๏ธ Configuration Management: Ansible.
    • - ๐Ÿ’ป Scripting Languages: Bash, Python (Boto3), PowerShell.
    • - ๐Ÿ“ก Monitoring, Logging & APM: ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana) Stack, Datadog, Ganglia.
    • - ๐Ÿ”‘ Key-Value Secret Engine: HashiCorp Consul.

I believe DevOps is more than just tools and automation โ€” itโ€™s about building a culture of trust, collaboration, and continuous improvement. My mission is to create systems that are not only reliable and secure but also empower businesses to innovate without fear of downtime or failure.

    When Iโ€™m not optimizing pipelines or managing infrastructure, I enjoy:

    • - Exploring new DevOps and Cloud technologies,
    • - Sharing knowledge and mentoring upcoming engineers,
    • - Reading about system design and modern infrastructure practices,
    • - Spending time with family and traveling to new places.