Gourav Shah

Gourav is a passionate techie, who delved into the world of open source and GNU/Linux while being in the engineering school, long before he turned his passion into profession. He has more than 7 years of experience designing, deploying and managing complex, high performance, scalable, secure and redundant clusters. He is an expert devops professional with proficiency in Cloud Computing, Devops Tools, Configuration Management/Automation with Puppet/Chef, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery, Centralized Logging, Monitoring, Computer Networks, etc.

Gourav worked at Efficient Frontier (later acquired by Adobe Systems) as part of the Ops team responsible to manage hundreds of servers and providing uptime 24x7x365. He formed and headed the Ops team in India. He quit his MNC job in 2012 and went on to establish Initcron, a devops consulting firm. Under Initcron banner, Gourav provides devops consulting to various organizations, helping them build, automate and maintain scalable systems on public/private clouds. Gourav also conducts Corporate Training on devops topics.