Prashant Lakhera

CEO

Fremont, California, United States19 yrs 7 mos experience

AI EnabledHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20 years of experience in IT and DevOps.
Founder of an AI startup focusing on DevOps solutions.
Authored four books on DevOps and AI.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and DevOps innovator with a focus on AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Generative AiDevopsCloud ComputingContinuous Integration And Continuous Delivery (ci/cd)Linux System AdministrationScripting

Other Skills

slmArtificial Intelligence (AI)EntrepreneurshipEngineeringPython (Programming Language)ContainerizationSite Reliability EngineeringJenkinsContainer OrchestrationAutomationSystem AdministrationGITMavenDockerPuppet

About

After 20 years in the IT field, I’m now building my own AI startup , a dream fueled by decades of experience solving real-world DevOps challenges. If you’re working in the AI space on: 1️⃣ Small Language Models for DevOps 2️⃣ AI Agents for DevOps 3️⃣ Using AI to solve complex DevOps issues 👉 Let’s connect and collaborate! Over the years, I’ve worked with leading companies like Red Hat and Salesforce, designing scalable, secure, and efficient solutions in Cloud, DevOps, and Generative AI. My journey spans open-source contributions, multiple technical certifications, and hands-on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Python, Shell, and Linux. 💡 Beyond my professional roles, I’m passionate about giving back to the community. I founded 100daysofdevops and 101daysofdevops, authored four books, and regularly share knowledge through YouTube, blogs, and meetups: ✅ Building an LLMOps Pipeline using Hugging Face: https://pratimuniyal.gumroad.com/l/BuildinganLLMOpsPipelineUsingHuggingFace ✅ AWS for System Administrators: https://www.amazon.com/AWS-System-Administrators-automate-infrastructure/dp/1800201532 ✅ Cracking the DevOps Interview: https://pratimuniyal.gumroad.com/l/cracking-the-devops-interview My mission is to shape the future of open source with AI-driven, collaborative solutions — and I believe the best way forward is to learn and build together. 🚀 If this resonates with you, I’d love to connect and explore what we can create.

Experience

19 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Stealth startup

Founder and CTO

Sep 2025 – Present · 8 mos · United States · Remote

Starting a new journey as Founder & CTO. My focus is on driving innovation at the intersection of DevOps and Generative AI by
🔹 Building Small language Models(SLM) from scratch
🔹 Designing AI agents for DevOps to automate and simplify everyday complexities
🔹 Solving real DevOps challenges with Generative AI
If you are working in this space, I would be glad to connect and explore potential collaborations

slmGenerative AIDevOpsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Entrepreneurship

Salesforce

Various engineering role

Aug 2016 – Aug 2025 · 9 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

EngineeringCloud ComputingPython (Programming Language)ContainerizationSite Reliability EngineeringJenkins+6

Cognizant technology solutions

Manager

Jan 2014 – Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Menlo Park California

Designed a complete Continuous Delivery/Complete Deployment Solution, which include integration of GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Docker, Puppet, Nexus and Nagios
Integrate GIT with Jenkins, Vagrant and Oracle Virtual Box
Dockerized ELK(ElasticSearch, Logstash and Kibana) architecture and Apache/Tomcat
Debugging Linux Memory, CPU and I/O Management issue 
Designed and implemented scalable, secure cloud architecture based on Amazon Web Services(EC2,S3,ELB,Route53 and IAM) 
Deployed Puppet for configuration management to existing infrastructure
Administration of monitoring infrastructure consisting of Nagios server
Knowledge of GIT and Jenkins Continuous Integration Server – Installation, Configuration, Design and Administration, and integrating these tools with other systems

Red hat

Senior Technical Support Engineer

Sep 2012 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos

Hcl technologies

Senior Specialist

May 2007 – Sep 2012 · 5 yrs 4 mos

E*TRADE provides online investing and stock trading including: stocks, options, mutual funds, ETFs, bonds, futures.
Achievments : In 4 years at HCL got outstanding once and Exceed Expectation rating 3 times in annual appraisal. Never got any escalation from client. Worked about 3 years onsite in 4 years work period with E*trade.

Angelz technologies (p) ltd

Linux Server Administrator

May 2006 – May 2007 · 1 yr

Company : V-Angelz primarily holds gravity in developing software applications . These applications are in the e-business domain and include verticals such as finance, telecom, comparison shopping, mobile content etc
Responsibilities : Responsible for installing, configuring, troubleshooting and monitoring the following Linux Servers: DNS (BIND), Web Server (Apache), FTP (vsftpd), NFS. Act as highest point of escalation for Linux
Skills
Platforms : Red Hat Linux 4,5 and 6,Centos 5 and Fedora
Virtualization : KVM, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)
Application Servers : Apache, DNS,NFS,Kerberos,Vsftpd
Middleware : Oracle Tuxedo
Scripting : Shell
Clustering: Redhat Cluster Suite,GFS,Conga and Ricci
Network Management: NMAP and AIDE
Firewall: Iptables
Storage: ISCSI,Multipathing
Security: SeLinux,Xinetd,TCP Wrapper,TLS; Job Responsibilities:
Managing Iscsi storage and implemented multipathing to provide failover
Create four node Apache cluster with GFS backend and implement failover capability
Create two node NFS cluster for internal apps and GFS backend
Configure Conga,Luci and Ricci to manager cluster and provide centralized administration
Implement Quorum and Fencing to avoid split brain condition
Create Self Signed certificate for internal application
Implement DNS security with the help of TSIG keys
Implement Kerberos and intergrate it with NFS version 4
Implement password authentication between various SSH client
Implement connection restriction on Vsftpd
Perfrom Apache security and implement SSL certificate