Pushkar Khatavkar

Cloud Associate Trainer

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

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 AWS Competency Case Study

Early Experience

Internship

Cyber Security Intern & Research Intern
Curaksha
Jul 2020 – Jun 2021

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