Pushkar Khatavkar

Cloud Associate Trainer

Cloud Associate Trainer who loves training and mentoring students, delivering engaging and hands-on learning experiences.

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Career

Experience

Cloud Associate Trainer

Junior SRE Program · IAMOPS

07/2025 – 04/2026 Surat, Gujarat

Led training for 25+ interns covering Networking, Linux, Web Servers, AWS
Created structured learning modules, practical sessions, and video and text content
Developed 15+ hands-on labs (Python-based) for real-world simulations
Mentored on DevOps/Cloud/SRE practices, troubleshooting, and real-world scenarios

DevOps Support Engineer

IAMOPS

12/2023 – 07/2025 Surat, Gujarat

Managed monitoring for 6+ clients (Grafana, Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, New Relic) across EC2 & ECS environments
Migrated incident management system with alert-based runbooks integration
Developed Playwright-based synthetic monitoring for 9 sites. Identified issues before they reached users, and stored image artifacts in S3
Automated cost reports, security checks, maintenance, and alert reporting

DevOps Associate

IAMOPS

12/2022 – 12/2023 Surat, Gujarat

Managed end-to-end CI/CD for multiple clients; optimized AWS infra for cost, performance, and security
Reduced cloud cost by $6K/year; improved AWS Security Hub score by 30% using AWS best practices
Implemented ESET across cloud infrastructure, improving endpoint protection and security posture
Designed and deployed Acronis-based backup system with end-to-end ownership, including vendor evaluation and purchase decision-making

Toolkit

Skills

Cloud

EC2ECSS3 IAMCloudWatchVPC

DevOps / IaC

GitLab CI/CDTerraform

Monitoring

GrafanaPrometheus MimirLoki Uptime KumaUptime Robot

Security & Backup

ESETAcronis AWS Security Hub

Language

Python

Others

LinuxNetworking Web Servers

Work

Featured Project

Synthetic Monitoring (Playwright + AWS) – IAMOPS

iamops.io/synthetic-test-monitoring

Built monitoring for 9 websites, improving issue detection and reliability
Identified and resolved caching issues using automated browser-based checks
Integrated reporting and artifact storage with AWS S3
This project became part of a case study for AWS competency

AWS Competency Case Study

Early Experience

Internship

Cyber Security Intern & Research Intern

Curaksha

Jul 2020 – Jun 2021

Conducted cybersecurity research and supported security assessment activities
Performed risk assessment by creating detailed risk matrices and identifying potential security gaps
Assisted in ISO 27001 compliance initiatives and security documentation
Participated in Red Team operations and Capture The Flag (CTF)-style security exercises

Credentials

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) – Udemy

AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Associate SOA-C03 – Udemy

Academic

Education

Diploma in Cyber Law

Bharati Vidyapeeth, Mumbai

2021 – 2022

M.Sc. (IT) – Information Technology

KC College, Mumbai

2019 – 2021

B.Sc. (CS) – Computer Science

DG Ruparel College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Mumbai

2016 – 2019