Gajesh Bhat

Senior DevOps Engineer · Developer Experience & Productivity

I build the CI/CD, build systems and test infrastructure that make engineers, and AI agents, faster and safer.

Open source Writing

Impact

  • 50%shorter build timesMotorola Solutions
  • 40%fewer simulator deployment errorsMotorola Solutions
  • 40%faster Yocto buildsLumotive
  • 30minsignature-update verification cycle, with analytics I builtFortinet
  • 34pull requests merged in open sourceLXD, snapcraft.io, Testflinger, App Center

Experience

  1. 2024 – now

    Motorola SolutionsSenior DevOps Engineer

    Build and CI infrastructure for the main product, infrastructure as code with Packer, Terraform and Ansible, and self-sustaining simulator tooling.Also: POCs for AWS Spot self-hosted runners, Linux containers on Kubernetes, and a Gemini-powered Git analysis tool (Hackathon 2025).

  2. 2023 – 2024

    LumotiveDevOps Engineer

    Founded the DevOps function: Yocto image pipelines, autoscaling CI on MicroK8s and hardware-in-the-loop testing.

  3. 2021 – 2023

    FortinetDevOps Engineer

    Built the performance test system behind AV Comparative benchmarking across x86 and ARM (Ubuntu, RHEL, Windows Server) on Python and MySQL.Also: analytics for the Distributed AV Engine Verification System, which verifies signature updates sent to customers every 30 minutes, and logrotate policies that ended production crashes on RHEL servers.

StackPythonGoBashDockerKubernetesTerraformAnsibleAWSGitHub ActionsLinux

Developer tooling

  • agent-dreamteamBenchmark of Claude Code as boss delegating bounded coding work to local open-model workers.Shell
  • bitbucket-cloud-runner-automationLumotive: self-hosted Bitbucket Runners provisioned with Ansible and autoscaled on MicroK8s.Write-up
  • coverage-report-generatorBitbucket Pipe that turns coverage and lint output into Code Insights reports on pull requests.Python
  • kas-actionGitHub Action that builds Yocto and OpenEmbedded projects in CI with Siemens kas.GitHub Actions
  • auto-workspaceAnsible playbooks that take a fresh Ubuntu or macOS machine to a full dev setup.Ansible
  • git-assistGo CLI that wires a local LLM into Git: commit messages, repo analysis, step-by-step rebases.Go
  • oatpProxy that stitches traces across multi-agent runtimes and applies semantic governance to LLM calls.Python

Open source

Upstream work spans LXD, snapcraft.io, Testflinger, App Center, pylxd and lxd-ci at Canonical, plus msl, which runs Linux on Apple silicon. It leans toward test infrastructure, packaging and release tooling, and API performance.

  • Snapcraft.ioCommit links in builds, repo autofill for GitHub builds, listing-form hints, old-snap warning.7 merged
  • LXDSelective state recursion API, lxc cluster failure-domain command, cross-track upgrade tests.5 merged
  • TestflingerHuman-friendly reservation timeouts, queue-status job rollups, clearer queue position.3 merged
  • Ubuntu App CenterOne-click snap revert shipped in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, plus link usability fixes.3 merged

All open source

Writing

All writing