Resume | Prakriti Shrestha

Building secure, automated, and highly available production infrastructure — working toward Cloud Infrastructure Architecture and Platform Engineering.

Summary

Cloud & DevOps Engineer with hands-on production experience designing and operating virtualized infrastructure, containerized workloads, and observability platforms across hybrid environments. Skilled in AWS and Azure fundamentals, Linux systems administration, Docker, CI/CD automation, and security hardening, with research experience applying multi-agent reinforcement learning to distributed systems problems. Focused on building reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure, with a long-term goal of growing into cloud architecture and platform engineering leadership roles.

Experience

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Gorkha Soft Pvt. Ltd.

Jan 2026 – Present · Kathmandu, Nepal

Designed, deployed, and manage a 4-node Proxmox virtualization environment supporting isolated production workloads for applications, databases, and monitoring services.
Manage 15+ Docker containers via Docker Compose, ensuring consistent deployments and simplified operational management.
Built and maintain a centralized monitoring and observability platform using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Alertmanager.
Implemented infrastructure security (Cloudflare WAF, UFW, Fail2ban, SSL/TLS, JWT authentication, SSH hardening) and automated backup/disaster-recovery workflows to AWS S3.
Configured secure remote administration via Tailscale VPN and manage Linux server administration, storage provisioning, and network segmentation.

Proxmox VEDockerNginxPrometheusGrafanaLokiAlertmanagerCloudflareAWS S3Tailscale

Teaching Assistant, Computing (CSE & CSDF)

ISMT College

Apr 2025 – Jan 2026 · Kathmandu, Nepal

Conducted hands-on laboratory sessions covering programming, networking, Linux administration, databases, and system troubleshooting.
Guided students through network configuration, firewall concepts, encryption fundamentals, and Python programming exercises.
Assisted students with academic projects while promoting technical documentation and structured problem-solving practices.

LinuxNetworkingPythonDatabases

Cloud Apprenticeship

Adex International

May 2025 – Aug 2025 · Kathmandu, Nepal

Designed and deployed cloud resources using EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, and CloudFront, following security and cost-optimization principles.
Practiced Infrastructure as Code concepts and CI workflows using GitHub for version control.
Built sample architectures implementing Auto Scaling, load balancing, and secure networking, aligned with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

AWS EC2S3RDSVPCIAMCloudFrontAuto Scaling

DevOps Engineer

IronRim, LLC

Jan 2024 · Columbus, OH (Remote)

Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions to automate build, test, and deployment workflows.
Assisted in optimizing development environments and improving deployment reliability through automation.
Collaborated with engineering teams on release planning and sprint demos.

JenkinsGitHub ActionsCI/CD

Technical Support

Jamun Tek

Jun 2023 – Oct 2023 · Kathmandu, Nepal

Provided technical support and troubleshooting for software, networking, and client-facing systems while maintaining service continuity.
Collaborated across teams to resolve problems efficiently.

NetworkingTechnical Support

Enumerator, National Agriculture Census

Central Bureau of Statistics, Nepal

Apr 2022 – Jun 2022 · Nepal

Collected and validated field data as part of Nepal's National Agriculture Census (Rastriya Krishi Gadana 2078).
Contributed structured datasets used for national agricultural policy planning.

Data CollectionField Research

Science & Math Teacher

Galkot Secondary School

Sep 2021 – Dec 2021 · Galkot, Nepal

Taught science and mathematics to secondary-level students, building foundational concepts and problem-solving skills.
Adapted instruction to different learning paces and classroom needs.

TeachingCurriculum Delivery

Technical Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudFront, Auto Scaling, Route 53) · Azure (VNets, VMs, ARM templates, Key Vault) · Proxmox VE · Linux Administration

Containers & CI/CD

Docker · Docker Compose · Kubernetes · Jenkins · GitHub Actions

Operations & Security

Prometheus & Grafana · Loki & Alertmanager · Cloudflare WAF · UFW / Fail2ban / SSH Hardening · Backup & Disaster Recovery · Tailscale VPN

Scripting & Automation

Bash · Python · Terraform · Ansible

Projects

Production Infrastructure Platform

GitHub

Multi-tier infrastructure on Proxmox with isolated networks, high availability and automated backups.

ProxmoxLinuxNetworkingBackup

Containerized Application Platform

GitHub

Dockerized applications with Nginx reverse proxy, SSL/TLS, and CI/CD deployment pipeline.

DockerNginxSSLCI/CD

Observability & Monitoring Stack

GitHub

Centralized monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana and Loki for metrics, logs and alerting.

PrometheusGrafanaLokiAlertmanager

Education

BSc (Hons) Computer Systems Engineering

University of Sunderland (in partnership with ISMT College)

2022 – 2025 · Kathmandu, Nepal

BTEC HND in Computing

ISMT College

2024 · Kathmandu, Nepal

Certifications

CCNP: Core Networking

Cisco

Mar 2026

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Prakriti Shrestha

Summary

Experience

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Teaching Assistant, Computing (CSE & CSDF)

Cloud Apprenticeship

DevOps Engineer

Technical Support

Enumerator, National Agriculture Census

Science & Math Teacher

Technical Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

Containers & CI/CD

Operations & Security

Scripting & Automation

Projects

Production Infrastructure Platform

Containerized Application Platform

Observability & Monitoring Stack

Education

BSc (Hons) Computer Systems Engineering

BTEC HND in Computing

Certifications

CCNP: Core Networking

DevNet Associate

CyberOps Associate

Introduction to Red Hat OpenShift AI (AI262F-RHA, v2.13)

AWS Academy Graduate – Cloud Architecting

AWS Academy Graduate – Cloud Foundations

AWS Knowledge: Architecting

AWS Knowledge: AWS for Games – Cloud Game Development

Network Security

Partner: NDG Linux Unhatched

Introduction to Cybersecurity

Networking Basics

Career Preparation Workshop

Introduction to Modern AI

Introduction to Critical Infrastructure Protection (ICIP)

100 Days of Cloud (AWS) – Level 1

KodeKloud Engineer – Linux (Level 1)

Docker – Level 1

KodeKloud Engineer – Ansible (Level 1)

Crash Course: Docker For Absolute Beginners

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional (Udemy Course)

Microsoft Azure Administrator: AZ-104 (Udemy Course)

Microsoft DP-203: Azure Data Engineer Associate (Udemy Course)

Getting Started with Azure Cloud (Udemy Course)

Professional Interests