# Gaurav Ashtikar

> AI operations product builder, DevOps/SRE leader, platform engineering specialist, and Co-Founder & Director, Platforms at Applied AI Consulting.

This site is the public professional profile for Gaurav Ashtikar. It is designed as an interactive terminal CV, with plain-text companion files for search engines, AI assistants, and other automated readers.

## Canonical URLs

- Website: https://gau1991.me/
- LLM-readable CV: https://gau1991.me/cv.md
- PDF CV: https://gau1991.me/gaurav-ashtikar-cv.pdf
- OpsRabbit profile: https://gau1991.me/opsrabbit.md
- Consulting profile: https://gau1991.me/consulting.md
- Experience profile: https://gau1991.me/experience.md

## Summary

Gaurav Ashtikar is a Co-Founder and Director, Platforms at Applied AI Consulting with 13+ years of experience building cloud platforms, DevOps systems, infrastructure automation, CI/CD systems, and AI-driven operations tooling.

He built OpsRabbit, a self-hosted AI incident-investigation platform for ITOps, DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, security, and enterprise IT teams. OpsRabbit connects alerts, operational context, collaboration channels, automation, and AI-led investigation.

He also led DevOps and SRE consulting work for customers across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes deployments, infrastructure automation, platform operations, reliability improvement, and cloud cost control. He managed and mentored a team of 30+ DevOps and SRE engineers delivering customer infrastructure, automation, deployment, monitoring, and operations programs.

## Key Topics

- AI operations products
- OpsRabbit
- Incident investigation
- DevOps and SRE consulting
- Platform engineering
- Cloud infrastructure
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Infrastructure automation
- CI/CD
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Chef
- Linux systems
- Team leadership

## External Profiles

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gau1991/
- GitHub: https://github.com/gau1991
- Website: https://gau1991.me/