Running DevOps Engineer Intern @ Rover AI

Devesh Chouhan.

I build, automate & scale

DevOps Engineer Intern at Rover AI and former CNCF LFX mentee at kgateway, where I made end-to-end tests 97% faster. Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform and Go are my everyday tools.

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devesh@rover: ~ zsh 
devesh@rover:~$ whoami
devesh-chouhan · devops engineer · india

devesh@rover:~$ kubectl get jobs -n career
NAME                       STATUS     DURATION
devops-intern.rover-ai     Running    28d
swe-intern.hosho-digital   Complete   4mo
lfx-mentee.kgateway        Complete   3mo

devesh@rover:~$ cat focus.txt
observability · kubernetes · aws · terraform · go

devesh@rover:~$
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India · IST

01About $ cat about.md

I'm a DevOps engineer who turns infrastructure into code and slow pipelines into fast ones. I learned in the open, with 25+ merged PRs across CNCF projects like kgateway. Today I keep things building, shipping and running at Rover AI.

Running Currently

DevOps Engineer Intern @ Rover AI

uptimesince 21 Sep 2026

joined 21 Sep 2026 · Pune, India

kgateway · LFX

97%

faster end-to-end tests per feature, with a "fast test" pattern adopted as the project's improvement plan.

Merged upstream

25+

pull requests merged into open-source projects

Open source

7

projects contributed to, including CNCF's kgateway, Antrea, Harbor and OpenTelemetry

GitHub stars

5.7k

on kgateway, the CNCF gateway whose test setup I helped modernize

Hosho Digital

4

enterprise solutions shipped in one internship: automation, AI, BI and web

Education

B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering

Jabalpur Engineering College · 2022 — 2026

Based in

India

IST · UTC+5:30

Org member

kgateway-dev on GitHub, after an LFX mentorship in 2026

02Skills $ kubectl describe node devesh

Tools I ship with.

A cloud-native toolbox, sharpened on real clusters, real pipelines and real upstream code reviews. Point at a group to light it up in the orbit.

20 tools in orbit
Kubernetes AWS Docker Terraform
GitHub Actions Helm Ansible Jenkins Linux Git Envoy Prometheus
Go Java PostgreSQL Python .NET Grafana
01

Containers & Orchestration

  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Helm
  • kind
  • Gateway API
  • Envoy

In practiceRan kgateway's E2E suites on kind clusters, wrote Deployment, Service, Ingress, ConfigMap, Secret & HPA manifests, and added a Helm chart release target upstream.

02

Cloud & Infrastructure as Code

  • AWS
  • EC2 · RDS · IAM · S3
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • PostgreSQL
  • cert-manager

In practiceProvisioned EC2, RDS, IAM roles and security groups with Terraform, locked down with least-privilege policies.

03

CI/CD & Automation

  • GitHub Actions
  • Jenkins
  • Git
  • Make
  • golangci-lint

In practiceBuilt build → test → deploy pipelines, enabled the nestif linter in kgateway's CI and contributed to Jenkins plugins.

04

Languages & Systems

  • Go
  • Java
  • Python
  • Linux
  • Bash
  • YAML

In practice19 merged Go PRs in kgateway, Java for Jenkins plugins and Selenium automation, and plenty of time at the Linux shell.

05

Observability & Reliability

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Loki
  • E2E testing
  • sigs.k8s.io/e2e-framework
  • Gateway API conformance
  • Load testing

In practiceBuilding monitoring and observability at Rover AI. At kgateway, cut E2E time per feature from 35s to 1s.

06

AI, Low-code & Web

  • Agentic AI
  • LLM integration
  • Power Apps
  • Power Automate
  • Power BI
  • .NET

In practiceShipped 4 enterprise solutions at Hosho Digital, including LLM-powered procure-to-pay automation.

03Experience $ git log --oneline career

Where I've shipped.

Sep 2026 — Present

Running

DevOps Engineer Intern

Rover AI · Pune, India

  • Monitoring & observability: building monitoring and observability for the team's infrastructure.
  • Monitoring
  • Observability
  • DevOps

May 2026 — Aug 2026

Complete

Software Engineer Intern

Hosho Digital · Indore, India

  • 4 enterprise solutions delivered: Power Apps workflow automation, an agentic AI system, Power BI dashboards and the .NET HRX website.
  • Procure-to-Pay automation: designed an end-to-end P2P solution in Power Apps that removed manual procurement steps, with an LLM for intelligent document processing.
  • AI-powered workflows: built agentic AI solutions with LLM integration for multi-step task automation and decision-making.
  • BI & web: created real-time Power BI dashboards for stakeholders, and designed and deployed the HRX kit website on .NET.
  • Power Apps
  • Power Automate
  • LLMs
  • Power BI
  • .NET

Mar 2026 — May 2026

Complete

Open Source Mentee

CNCF LFX Mentorship · kgateway · Remote

  • 97% faster tests: engineered a "fast test" pattern that cut E2E execution from 35s to 1s per feature, accepted as the project's official improvement plan.
  • E2E framework overhaul: wrote the design doc comparing a custom framework with sigs.k8s.io/e2e-framework, built POCs and drove the adoption recommendation.
  • Testing standards: created the project's first E2E testing developer guide, covering cluster setup, suite lifecycle and reusable test patterns.
  • 5.7k+ star project: modernized testing infrastructure for a CNCF cloud-native API & AI gateway used in production.
  • Go
  • Kubernetes
  • kind
  • Gateway API
  • E2E testing
04Open Source $ gh pr list --author devc007 --state merged

Merged upstream.

I learn in public, through code review on real CNCF projects: 25+ merged pull requests across 7 open-source projects.

kgateway logo

kgateway

CNCF · cloud-native API & AI gateway

  • 19merged PRs
  • 5.7kGitHub stars
  • LFX '26mentee
  • Orgmember

From linters and Helm release tooling to a full overhaul of end-to-end testing, this is my longest-running open-source home.

See all my kgateway PRs
  1. #14125Fast test pattern for the extProc and header-modifier suitesmerged
  2. #14140Share Nginx backend pods across E2E suitesmerged
  3. #14128Design doc: choosing the next E2E testing frameworkmerged
  4. #13672E2E testing framework overview for contributorsmerged
  5. #13481Enable the nestif linter in CI checksmerged
  6. #13229Bump kind to v0.31.0 and the node image to Kubernetes v1.35merged
  7. #11663Make target for releasing Helm chartsmerged

Antrea

CNCF · Kubernetes networking with Open vSwitch

#6913Skip TestFQDNCacheMinTTL on clusters with Windows nodes

Harbor CLI

CNCF · cloud-native container registry

#496Default FormatUrl to HTTPS instead of HTTP

OpenTelemetry

CNCF · observability framework

#4388Docs: using instrumentation libraries for C++

KCL

CNCF · configuration language & Flux controller

#236Make the flux-kcl-controller docs scripts work on Windows

Kubeflow

CNCF · machine learning on Kubernetes

#4151Website: tidy the nav bar and move past events

Jenkins

CD Foundation · automation server

#272Increase test coverage of the embeddable-build-status plugin
05Projects $ ls ~/projects

Selected builds.

Kubernetes · CI/CD

Kubernetes Deployment Pipeline

A containerized Python app shipped to Kubernetes by a GitHub Actions pipeline that builds, tests and deploys on every push.

  • Deployment, Service, ConfigMap, Secret, Ingress and HPA manifests with horizontal autoscaling
  • PostgreSQL cluster secured with TLS certificates from cert-manager
  • Scalability validated with load testing
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • PostgreSQL
  • Python

AWS · Infrastructure as Code

AWS Infrastructure Automation

Cloud infrastructure defined entirely in Terraform: compute, database, identity and network rules, reproducible from a single apply.

  • EC2, IAM roles, security groups and an RDS SQL database provisioned as code
  • Least-privilege IAM policies and tight security-group rules for secure access
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • EC2
  • RDS
  • IAM

Open source · Go · Kubernetes

kgateway Fast E2E Tests

A "fast test" pattern for kgateway's end-to-end suites: share expensive setup and consolidate backends, so a feature test runs in about a second.

  • E2E time per feature: 35s → 1s (97% faster)
  • Design doc and POCs for moving to sigs.k8s.io/e2e-framework
  • Go
  • Kubernetes
  • kind
  • E2E
View the pull request

Power Platform · LLM · Hosho Digital

Procure-to-Pay Automation

An end-to-end procurement workflow in Power Apps that replaces manual hand-offs, with an LLM that reads and extracts data from business documents.

  • Manual procurement steps removed from request to payment
  • LLM-based intelligent document processing
  • Power Apps
  • Power Automate
  • LLMs
  • Agentic AI
More on GitHub
06Contact $ ping devesh -c 1

Let's build something reliable.

Have a hard infrastructure problem, an open-source idea, or just want to talk Kubernetes? My inbox is open.

deveshc850@gmail.com