Akshay Kocharekar

Akshay

DevOps | Full-stack · Goa

I build from zero and keep it live. Full-stack developer focused on DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and automation, with hands-on experience deploying applications on AWS EC2, containerizing services with Docker, and building reliable Linux-based workflows.

Margao, Goa, IndiaCurrently 21 , learning Kubernetes · Terraform (IaC)

Proof of Work

Kubernetes Zero-Downtime Deployment — Kind + Kubernetes + NGINX Ingress
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Kubernetes Zero-Downtime Deployment

Kind + Kubernetes + NGINX Ingress

Multi-node Kubernetes deployment demonstrating rolling updates, readiness and liveness probes, Service and Ingress routing, slow-start and unhealthy release simulations, rollout protection, and rollback.

  • Kubernetes
  • Kind
  • Docker
  • NGINX Ingress
  • Rolling Updates
  • Readiness & Liveness Probes
Preview coming soon

Monitoring & SLO Stack

DevOps/SRE observability stack

Monitoring stack demonstrating infrastructure metrics, application availability, SLOs, error budgets and burn-rate alerting, built with Docker Compose, Prometheus and Grafana.

  • Docker Compose
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • SLOs
  • Node.js
Preview coming soon

CI Pipeline

Automated build, test & scan pipeline

Production-inspired CI pipeline using GitHub Actions to build, test, scan and package a Node.js application before publishing it.

  • GitHub Actions
  • Node.js
  • CI/CD
  • Security scanning
Preview coming soon

Multi-Service Docker App

Containerized MERN with Redis

Containerized MERN application demonstrating Docker, Docker Compose, MongoDB, Redis, container networking, volumes and multi-service orchestration.

  • Docker Compose
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Node.js
  • React
EasyCommute — Real-Time Bus Tracking Platform

EasyCommute

Real-Time Bus Tracking Platform

Full-stack platform with commuter, driver and admin dashboards, role-based authentication and live GPS updates over Socket.io, backed by MongoDB for persistence.

  • React
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • Socket.io
  • MongoDB
  • Tailwind CSS

Project Documentation

Notes, architecture decisions and operational documentation from projects I've built.

Doc 01

Kubernetes Zero-Downtime Deployment

Multi-node Kubernetes deployment demonstrating rolling updates, readiness and liveness probes, NGINX Ingress routing, rollout protection, failure simulation and rollback without intentionally reducing available application replicas.

  • Kubernetes
  • Kind
  • Deployments
  • Services
  • Ingress
  • Readiness & Liveness Probes
  • Rolling Updates
  • Rollback

More write-ups coming soon.

Documenting new projects as I build and ship them.

Tech Stack

  • AWS EC2
  • Docker
  • Docker Compose
  • Linux (Ubuntu)
  • Shell / Bash
  • Git & GitHub
  • Nginx
  • CI/CD fundamentals
  • SSH & server admin

Education

  • Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)

    VVM's Shree Damodar College of Commerce & Economics · Margao, Goa

    2023 – 2026

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