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
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Current Experience

Stealth startup

Founder and CTO

Sep 2025Present · 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 2016Aug 2025 · 9 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

EngineeringCloud ComputingPython (Programming Language)ContainerizationSite Reliability EngineeringJenkins+6

Cognizant technology solutions

Manager

Jan 2014Aug 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 2012Jan 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos

Hcl technologies

Senior Specialist

May 2007Sep 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 2006May 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

V-angelz technology limited

Senior System Admin

Jan 2006Jan 2007 · 1 yr

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Computer Science and Programming Using Python — Python

Jan 2017Jan 2017

G B Pant Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 2001Jan 2005

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