About

Pankaj Bhagwani is a DevOps Engineer at CloudCover with a passion for technology and open source. With almost 5 years of relevant experience, he is skilled in Linux, Docker, Big Data & Hadoop, Cloud Computing, and DevOps. Pankaj has a strong technical background in RedHat Linux, Cloud Computing, Big Data & Hadoop, Dockers, Containers, Linux System Administration, DevOps (Ansible), Python, and Virtualisation. In Cloud Computing, Pankaj has built Private Cloud offering services like StaaS, CaaS, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. He has automated all cloud services with Python Scripting and has knowledge of how services like these are coded in the back end. He is also familiar with Containerized Technologies like Dockers and has knowledge of Amazon Web Services like EC2. In Big Data & Hadoop, Pankaj has an understanding of Hadoop1 (HDFS cluster) and Hadoop1 with Map Reduce cluster. He has automated Hadoop with Map Reduce Cluster using Python scripting and has an overview of Splunk and Hive. Pankaj has a strong background in Linux System Administration, with expertise in permissions, ACL, partitions (LVM), Webmin Administration, and configuring servers like SSH, SSHFS, ISCSI, FTP, NFS, DNS, DHCP, HTTPS/HTTP (apache web server), Telnet, Postfix mail server, Samba server, etc. on RedHat Linux. Pankaj is also proficient in Virtualisation Products like Oracle VirtualBox, VMware Workstation, and Virt-Manager, as well as DevOps Tools like Ansible and Dockers. He has experience in programming/scripting languages like Python. Prior to his current role at CloudCover, Pankaj worked as a System Engineer at Cricbuzz, where he deployed applications/servers using Ansible on Development and Staging environment, helped developers with their requirements of Environment Setup, Creation and deployment of new Dockers images, POC, and worked collaboratively with the software engineering team to deploy and operate systems. He has also worked as an Intern (Big Data & Hadoop) at LinuxWorld Informatics, where he gained practical experience in Python, Hadoop, Networking, Automation & Provisioning, Redhat Enterprise Linux, and Web technologies. Pankaj holds an Engineer’s Degree in Computer Science from Global Institute of Technology, Jaipur. He is skilled