Neel Shah — DevOps Engineer

I help Senior DevOps Engineers stay current with the latest in Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform and Cloud Infrastructure through daily practical insights and proven architectures. As a Developer Advocate at Middleware, I spearhead innovation in the fields of DevOps and observability by actively engaging with customers, technology leaders, and open source communities to address complex technical challenges. Leveraging deep expertise in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), infrastructure automation, and observability platforms, I drive meaningful advancements that enhance system reliability, scalability, and developer efficiency. My role bridges technical advocacy and community leadership, enabling me to contribute significantly to cutting-edge projects while fostering knowledge sharing and collaboration among developer communities. Prior to Middleware, I built robust infrastructure and implemented advanced automation solutions as a DevOps Engineer, honing my ability to streamline operations and optimize workflows. Beyond my technical contributions, I am passionate about community building, co-organizing Open Source Weekend and leading influential user groups such as Google Cloud Gandhinagar, HashiCorp User Group Gandhinagar, and CNCG, empowering professionals to continuously learn, innovate, and grow collaboratively in the evolving cloud-native landscape.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure expert with strong community engagement in the SaaS industry.

Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Experience: 3 yrs 8 mos

Skills

Community Relations Management
Developer Relations
Devops
Continuous Integration And Continuous Delivery (ci/cd)
Data Science

Career Highlights

Spearheaded innovation in DevOps and observability.
Delivered impactful technical talks at major conferences.
Co-organized community events to empower DevOps professionals.

Work Experience

StackGen

Technical Marketing Engineer (2 mos)

Middleware

Developer Advocate (1 yr 6 mos)

GDG Cloud Gandhinagar

Co Organizer (2 yrs 7 mos)

Internauts InfoTech®

DevOps Engineer (1 yr 4 mos)

Asite

SRE Intern (1 mo)

Open Source Weekend

Co-organiser (3 yrs 5 mos)

SAWO Labs

Developer Champ (2 mos)

CollegeRanker India

Data Science Intern (1 mo)

LetsGrowMore

Data Science Virtual Internship (1 mo)

Open Source Contributor (3 mos)

The Intern Academy

Python Project Internship (1 mo)

TwoWaits

Community Manager Intern (2 mos)

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE at L.D. College of Engineering

Higher Secondary at St. Xaviers High School Loyola Hall,Ahmedabad

Neel Shah

DevOps Engineer

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India3 yrs 8 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Spearheaded innovation in DevOps and observability.
Delivered impactful technical talks at major conferences.
Co-organized community events to empower DevOps professionals.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure expert with strong community engagement in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Community Relations ManagementDeveloper RelationsDevopsContinuous Integration And Continuous Delivery (ci/cd)Data Science

Other Skills

Community BuildingobservabilityTechnical WritingJenkinsTerraformGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Machine LearningNatural Language Processing (NLP)EvangelismTechnical UnderstandingProduct DevelopmentSoftware as a Service (SaaS)NetworkingPython (Programming Language)NumPy

About

Experience

3 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 10 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Stackgen

Technical Marketing Engineer

Feb 2026 – Present · 2 mos

Middleware

Developer Advocate

Jul 2024 – Jan 2026 · 1 yr 6 mos

Organized and hosted over 10 meetups, webinars, and community events across India to empower DevOps professionals in observability and cloud-native practices.
Actively promoted the Middleware platform and its features by contributing to relevant GitHub repositories and collaborating with YouTube influencers.
Provided direct customer support, successfully securing new customer relationships through technical advocacy and partnership development.
Delivered more than 10 technical talks and presentations at prominent conferences, including KubeCon India, GopherCon India 2025, HashiTalk India 2024, and PlatformCon 2024.
Recognized as a Top 3% Most Active Speaker of 2024 by Sessionize for impactful contributions to conferences and community leadership.
Initiated and hosted networking dinner parties, podcasts, and collaborative webinars to foster industry connections and knowledge sharing.
Wrote over 30 tech articles published on renowned websites such as InfoWorld, CIO Collective, DZone, and DevOps.com.
Launched and managed public forums and discourse communities to facilitate open discussions and customer engagement around Middleware observability solutions.

Developer RelationsCommunity BuildingDevOpsobservability

Gdg cloud gandhinagar

Co Organizer

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

Community Relations ManagementCommunity Building

Internauts infotech®

DevOps Engineer

Feb 2023 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

> Managed end-to-end DevOps operations including CI/CD pipeline development, infrastructure automation, and cloud infrastructure management to ensure reliable and scalable deployments.
> Implemented monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to improve system observability and incident response times.
> Automated provisioning and configuration of development, staging, and production environments using tools like Terraform and Ansible.
> Collaborated closely with development and QA teams to streamline deployment workflows and accelerate release cycles.
> Maintained and optimized cloud resources to balance performance, cost-efficiency, and security compliance.
> Troubleshot and resolved production issues, ensuring high availability and performance of critical applications.
> Contributed to the adoption of containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) tools to modernize application infrastructure.
> Supported continuous improvement initiatives by documenting best practices and conducting knowledge sharing sessions within the team.

JenkinsTerraformGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

Asite

SRE Intern

Jan 2023 – Feb 2023 · 1 mo

Open source weekend

Co-organiser

Nov 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

Sawo labs

Developer Champ

Apr 2022 – Jun 2022 · 2 mos

SAWO Champ Programme 🤝
3 months long cohort, 10's of informative sessions and many many friendships!!
✍ I wrote tons of articles, learnt about APIs, Startups, Enterpreneurship and what not!
Also integrated their APIs in some apps made by me.

Collegeranker india

Data Science Intern

Feb 2022 – Mar 2022 · 1 mo

I made 2 projects namely Customer Segment Prediction and Supermart Sales Analysis.

Letsgrowmore

2 roles

Data Science Virtual Internship

Sep 2021 – Oct 2021 · 1 mo

Here I learned new things and worked on different projects like Iris Flower Classification , Image To Pencil Sketch ,etc.

Data ScienceMachine Learning

Open Source Contributor

Jun 2021 – Sep 2021 · 3 mos

LGM – SOC is an online program designed to encourage student participation in open source software development under the guidance of mentors from the open source community. As it’s the present demand and students need, so we come with LGM – SOC
>> I stood at 4th position in the leaderboard of LGMSOC.

Data ScienceMachine Learning