# DevOps and SRE Consulting

Gaurav Ashtikar led DevOps and SRE consulting work at Applied AI Consulting for customers across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes deployments, infrastructure automation, platform operations, reliability improvement, and cloud cost control.

## Consulting Focus

- Cloud infrastructure design and modernization
- AWS architecture
- Kubernetes deployment and platform design
- Infrastructure automation
- CI/CD and release automation
- Platform operations
- Reliability improvement
- Observability and monitoring
- Cloud cost control
- DevOps operating model improvements

## Leadership

Gaurav managed and mentored a team of 30+ DevOps and SRE engineers delivering customer infrastructure, automation, deployment, monitoring, and operations programs.

## Delivery Style

The consulting work combined hands-on engineering, architecture, team enablement, automation-first delivery, and operational maturity improvements.