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Bhavesh Panchal

Cloud & DevOps Transformation Lead

AWS · Azure · Alibaba CloudKubernetesAhmedabad, India

Cloud and DevOps engineer with over 15 years of experience, from Linux and Windows system administration to CI/CD automation and Kubernetes. Azure DevOps expert, Alibaba Cloud MVP and Azure Administrator. Focused on automating deployments, running reliable infrastructure and bringing teams through cloud transformation.

How I can help

CI/CD Pipelines

Setting up continuous integration and delivery with Jenkins, Git and Azure Pipelines so releases ship faster and more consistently.

Kubernetes & Containers

Container orchestration, managed deployments, scaling, and keeping applications available and resilient.

Multi-Cloud Infrastructure

Designing, deploying and managing cloud solutions on Azure, AWS and Alibaba Cloud, including resource management.

Infrastructure as Code

Repeatable infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible, rather than manual setup.

Cloud & DevOps Transformation

Guiding teams from manual operations to automated, cloud-based delivery, and streamlining processes across platforms.

Windows & Enterprise Infrastructure

Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, WSUS, and OS deployment with WDS and MDT, plus VMware ESXi management.

Service Levels & Documentation

Monitoring performance against SLAs, and writing clear environment documentation, procedures and best practices.

Languages

English, Hindi and Gujarati.

What I work with

Kubernetes Microsoft Azure Azure DevOps AWS Alibaba Cloud Terraform Ansible Jenkins Git CI/CD Containers Linux Active Directory VMware ESXi

Credentials

Verified badges are on Credly.

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

Microsoft

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Microsoft

KCNA: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate

Cloud Native Computing Foundation

LFS250: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Essentials

Linux Foundation

Alibaba Cloud Associate: Cloud Computing

Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud MVP (3x)

Alibaba Cloud

Career timeline

Dec 2025 – Present

Senior Consultant, DevOps

CodeWave Technologies Sdn. Bhd.
Jan 2023 – Jun 2025

Consultant, DevOps Lead

Hexagon technology Sdn Bhd
Dec 2019 – Jan 2023

DevOps Engineer

Cygnet.One
  • Azure and AWS cloud platforms
  • Kubernetes and containerised workloads
  • Infrastructure as code with Terraform and Ansible
  • CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Azure DevOps
Jul 2018 – Dec 2019

DevOps & IT Engineer

GANTNER India (formerly Syx Automations India)
Dec 2009 – Jun 2018

System Administrator

Infostretch
  • Managed Amazon EC2, load balancers, RDS, VPC, S3 and Elastic IPs
  • Installed, configured and troubleshot Linux servers
  • Windows infrastructure: Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, WSUS, WDS with MDT
  • VMware ESXi host and VM resource management
  • Service-level monitoring against client SLAs
  • Enterprise security: malware, ransomware and vulnerability patching

Articles

9Cloud · Jan 8, 2026

Stop Optimizing Your Code. Fix the Route.

How routing user traffic over a cloud provider's private backbone cut latency for a SaaS team with slow international response times.

9Cloud · Jan 23, 2026

Fix Alibaba Cloud ECS Boot Problems Step by Step

A step-by-step guide to troubleshooting Alibaba Cloud ECS instances that fail to boot.

Dev.to

From Prometheus to ARMS: How We Simplified Observability for a Multi-Tier App on Alibaba Cloud

Moving a multi-tier SaaS app from self-managed Prometheus to Alibaba Cloud's managed ARMS platform, and what that changed for incident response and maintenance.

Dev.to

I Set Up a Real CI/CD Pipeline in 20 Minutes Using Alibaba Cloud—Here's How

Building an automated pipeline with Alibaba Cloud DevOps that builds a Docker image, runs tests, and deploys to Kubernetes on every push.

Medium

How to Set Up a CI/CD Pipeline Using Alibaba Cloud DevOps

A guide to setting up a CI/CD pipeline with Alibaba Cloud DevOps.