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SAMIR KOIRALA

DevOps Engineer

Building CI/CD pipelines, managing containerized applications, provisioning infrastructure with Terraform, and operating production environments. Currently leading DevOps practices across product teams.

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Samir Koirala

DevOps Engineer

samirkoirala13@gmail.com · +977 9814285622 · Kathmandu, Nepal

Profile

DevOps Engineer with experience building CI/CD pipelines, managing containerized applications, provisioning infrastructure with Terraform, and operating production environments. Currently leading DevOps practices across product teams, with hands-on experience in AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Terragrunt, GitHub Actions, n8n, monitoring, and deployment automation.

Experienced in production deployments, infrastructure migration, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, database backup automation, and troubleshooting distributed application environments.

Professional Experience

DevOps Engineer

– Present

TechYatra Labs Pvt. Ltd. · Kathmandu, Nepal — Hybrid, Full-time

  • Lead the DevOps function across product teams, owning deployment standards, CI/CD practices, infrastructure decisions, and production release processes.
  • Mentor engineers on CI/CD, Docker, Infrastructure as Code, deployment practices, and production infrastructure.
  • Manage AWS and DigitalOcean environments with a focus on reliability, monitoring, automation, and infrastructure right sizing.
  • Establish deployment and infrastructure standards across development, staging, and production environments.

DevOps Engineer

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NAXA Pvt. Ltd. · Kathmandu, Nepal — Full-time

  • Built and maintained GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for automated Docker image builds, testing, and deployments to AWS ECS.
  • Managed multi-environment infrastructure using Terraform and Terragrunt.
  • Led migration of production workloads between cloud environments and modernized legacy deployments toward AWS based infrastructure.
  • Built and maintained containerized application deployments using Docker and AWS services.
  • Automated deployment, infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and operational tasks.
  • Implemented monitoring and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch.

DevOps Engineer

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TechYatra Labs Pvt. Ltd. · Kathmandu, Nepal — Hybrid, Full-time

  • Designed and maintained GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for Django and Next.js applications.
  • Provisioned infrastructure using Terraform and deployed containerized applications using Docker and Nginx.
  • Introduced Infrastructure as Code for development, staging, and production environments.
  • Automated application deployment and release workflows.

DevOps Engineer Intern and Trainee

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Webpoint Solutions LLC · Kathmandu, Nepal — Hybrid

  • Set up GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for automated builds and deployments.
  • Configured AWS resources including EC2, S3, and IAM.
  • Documented deployment procedures and supported infrastructure monitoring and troubleshooting.

Automation & Infrastructure as Code

Workflow automation, pipeline design, and declarative infrastructure across the roles and projects listed on this site.

n8n DevOps Workflows

n8n · SSH · GitHub · Slack · AWS S3

  • Built a reusable collection of 11 n8n workflows for DevOps monitoring, backups, GitHub automation, and Slack notifications.
  • Automated CPU, memory, disk, Docker, systemd service, SSL certificate, and backup health alerts.
  • Added PostgreSQL-to-S3 backups, GitHub pull request notifications, and scheduled team reminders.

github.com/samirkoirala/n8n-workflows →

Reusable GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions · Shell

  • Developed reusable composite actions for artifact uploads and downloads, Django migration checks, and Docker Compose status checks.
  • Automated Docker image pruning and email delivery of artifact links, with a dedicated workflow to lint and validate the actions.

github.com/TechYatra-Labs/gh-workflows →

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform · Terragrunt · Ansible

  • Managed multi-environment infrastructure using Terraform and Terragrunt at NAXA.
  • Introduced Infrastructure as Code for development, staging, and production environments at TechYatra Labs.
  • Automated deployment, infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and operational tasks.

Containers & Orchestration

Containerized application delivery from local Compose stacks through to managed clusters.

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) — in progress.

Open Source

HOTOSM Kubernetes Infrastructure

Kubernetes · EKS · Terraform

  • Contributed to the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team's Kubernetes infrastructure project.
  • Worked with EKS and Infrastructure as Code for open source humanitarian mapping infrastructure.

Open Source ASCOL Club (OSAC)

General Secretary · –

  • Organized a national level mapping competition in collaboration with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

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Projects

Technical Skills

DevOps & CI/CD

  • Docker
  • Docker Compose
  • GitHub Actions
  • Jenkins
  • Bitbucket Pipelines
  • Nginx
  • CI/CD Automation

Infrastructure as Code

  • Terraform
  • Terragrunt
  • Ansible

Cloud

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • DigitalOcean
  • Proxmox
  • Cloudflare

AWS Services

  • ECS
  • EC2
  • S3
  • ECR
  • IAM
  • VPC
  • Lambda
  • CloudWatch

Containers & Orchestration

  • Docker
  • Docker Compose
  • Kubernetes
  • Amazon ECS
  • EKS

Automation

  • n8n
  • Python
  • Bash
  • Webhooks
  • REST APIs

Monitoring

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • CloudWatch
  • ELK

Security & Networking

  • IAM
  • SSL/TLS
  • Nginx
  • Cloudflare
  • DNS

Version Control

  • Git
  • GitHub

Education, Certifications & Achievements

Education

B.Sc. in Computer Science and Information Technology

Tribhuvan University, Amrit Campus · Lainchaur, Nepal

Certifications

Leadership & Achievements

Contact

Open channel. Happy to talk about DevOps, infrastructure, and automation work.

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