buildwithheta

I'm Heta Jogidasani, a DevOps and cloud engineer in Riga who likes building useful things.

For 8+ years I've worked in software, the last several in DevOps: CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure and GCP. This is my portfolio, lab and journal.

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The work

Platforms I've built, experiments I've run, tech I've tried and people I've taught. Each one has the full story behind it.

  1. A private Kubernetes cloud

    Enterprise platform

    Built a private Kubernetes platform with separate Dev, Test and Prod environments, and managed the clusters and releases with Helm.

    Kubernetes, Helm, Docker

  2. DevOps tooling as code

    Enterprise platform

    Ran Jenkins and Nexus in Docker containers deployed with Terraform, built and fixed Java CI/CD pipelines, and managed configuration with Ansible and Chef.

    Terraform, Jenkins, Nexus, Ansible, Chef, GitLab, Bitbucket

  3. Google Cloud proofs of concept

    Freelance, 2023

    Delivered working proofs of concept for clients on Google Cloud, from Kubernetes workloads to databases and GitOps deployments.

    GKE, Compute Engine, AlloyDB, VPC, Argo CD

  4. Seeing what apps are doing

    Monitoring

    Wrote Splunk queries and dashboards that tracked application performance and capacity, with Sensu for monitoring.

    Splunk, Sensu, PostgreSQL

  5. Sustainability hackathon, 2nd place

    Hackathon, 2020

    Our team placed second in a worldwide hackathon on sustainability.

    Hackathon

  6. A quantum computing project

    Research project

    Worked as a backend engineer on a university research project, writing algorithms in Python.

    Python, algorithms, Scrum

  7. Bootcamps and mentoring

    Ongoing

    Taught DevOps and AWS cloud at bootcamps, and mentored interns and junior engineers.

    DevOps, AWS, teaching

Certifications

Formal proof behind the hands-on work, across cloud, DevOps practice, software and leading people.

  • Amazon Web Services

    AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

    Covers AWS's core services, security and shared responsibility, pricing and the Well-Architected principles. It backs up years of running workloads on EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, Route 53 and CloudFormation.

  • DevOps Institute

    DevOps Foundation

    Covers the principles behind DevOps: flow, fast feedback, continuous delivery, automation and the culture that makes teams work together. It's the thinking behind how I approach every pipeline.

  • Microsoft

    Microsoft Technology Associate, 98-361 Software Development Fundamentals

    Covers programming fundamentals, object-oriented design, web and desktop applications, and databases in .NET, the foundation I started from as a software engineer.

  • Training

    People Management

    Covers leading and developing people, giving feedback and running teams. I put it to use mentoring interns, coaching juniors and teaching at bootcamps.

2nd placeWorldwide sustainability hackathon, 2020.

Toolbox

The tools I reach for, grouped by the job they do.

Containers and orchestration

  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Helm
  • Argo CD

Cloud

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud

CI/CD

  • Azure DevOps
  • Jenkins
  • CircleCI
  • GitLab
  • GitHub
  • Bitbucket
  • Nexus
  • SonarQube

Infrastructure as code

  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Chef
  • CloudFormation

Monitoring and data

  • Splunk
  • Sensu
  • SQL and NoSQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Power BI
  • Tableau

Code

  • Python
  • Bash and Shell
  • PowerShell
  • YAML
  • Java and Spring Boot
  • .NET and C#
  • TypeScript
  • React

Ways of working

  • Scrum
  • Kanban
  • UML
  • REST APIs
  • Coaching
  • Problem solving

About me

I started as a software engineer in Vadodara, India, building web apps in .NET and automating business processes with RPA, then moved into business analysis. Since moving to Riga, I've specialised in DevOps: CI/CD, containers, infrastructure as code and the cloud.

I care about continuous improvement and about understanding what the people using a system actually need. Colleagues would call me can-do and extroverted. Outside work you'll find me on a tennis, badminton or squash court, or sketching, painting and taking photos.

  • Professional master's in information systems, ISMA University, Riga
  • MSc Software Technologies, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara
  • BSc Computer Science, Pune University

I speak English, Hindi, Gujarati and Marathi.

See my full profile on LinkedIn

Experience

  1. Nov 2024 – now

    DevOps Engineer, Atea Global Services

    Riga. Azure, Azure DevOps, .NET, TypeScript, MongoDB, SQL and GitHub Copilot.

  2. Feb 2024 – Nov 2024

    DevOps Analyst, Accenture Baltics

    Led the service desk for the internal DevOps platform, worked on platform migrations, automated processes with Power Automate, and mentored juniors. Also led a small team doing internal sales, matching talent to new projects.

  3. Nov 2023 – Dec 2023

    Freelance DevOps contract

    Google Cloud proofs of concept for clients, with GKE, AlloyDB and Argo CD.

  4. Aug 2022 – Nov 2023

    Subject Matter Expert (Dev & Ops), Enfuce

    Onboarded customers through the product life cycle, patched the Way4 application, and maintained AWS S3, Lambda and Route 53 infrastructure.

  5. Jan 2019 – Jul 2022

    DevOps Application Analyst, Accenture Baltics

    Built a private Kubernetes cloud, CI/CD pipelines and tooling with Terraform, Ansible and Chef on AWS, plus Splunk dashboards.

  6. Jun 2015 – Sep 2016

    Business Analyst, Odysseus Solutions

    Vadodara. Started as a software engineer on online booking engines for cruises, flights and hotels, then moved into product analysis.

  7. Jun 2014 – Jun 2015

    Professional Services Application Engineer, Automation Anywhere

    Delivered RPA automation for clients including British Telecom.

  8. Jun 2013 – May 2014

    Software Engineer, Clear Cell

    Built and maintained software in ASP.NET, SQL and JavaScript.

Building something? Say hello.

I'm happy to talk about DevOps and cloud projects, roles, mentoring, or a pipeline that keeps failing.

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