Anil Raj Rimal - DevOps Engineer
Namaskar, I'm a DevOps Engineer from Nepal. I build cloud infrastructure and automate deployments, keeping systems boring in the best way.
About Me
I build and maintain production infrastructure. My experience comes from working through real problems, one incident and one Terraform module at a time.
I automate what's worth automating, watch what needs watching, and lock down what needs locking down. Terraform, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Docker, and Kubernetes are the tools. The actual job is keeping production reliable, observable, and secure.
I now mentor engineers coming up behind me, the way others mentored me when I started. I work well async and remote, and I'd rather write something down once than explain it five times.
Outside of work, I build CLI tools and GitHub Actions that solve problems I run into, from container monitoring to secret management. I hold a bachelor's degree in CSIT.
Primary interests
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- Infrastructure as Code
- Monitoring
- Cloud Security
- Terraform
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- EKS
- ArgoCD
- Helm
- GitHub Actions
- Docker
- ECS
- Terragrunt
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Linux
- Bash
- Python
- Nginx
- Cloudflare
- Terraform
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- EKS
- ArgoCD
- Helm
- GitHub Actions
- Docker
- ECS
- Terragrunt
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Linux
- Bash
- Python
- Nginx
- Cloudflare
My Projects
Tools, GitHub Actions, and infrastructure projects I built to solve real problems.
DockedUp
Real-time interactive CLI dashboard for monitoring Docker containers. Supports compose grouping, health checks, CPU/memory metrics, and hotkeys for logs, restarts, and shell access. Published on PyPI, with releases automated through GitHub Actions.
AWS ECS Platform Infra
Production-grade AWS infrastructure for containerised web platforms using ECS Fargate, Aurora Serverless v2, Redis, CloudFront, and ALB. Fully managed with Terraform and Terragrunt.
ECR Docker Builder Action
GitHub Action that builds a Docker image from any Dockerfile and pushes it to Amazon ECR with custom tags. Available on GitHub Marketplace.
Phase Secrets Fetch Action
GitHub Action that securely fetches secrets from Phase Console and writes them to a .env file for use in downstream workflow steps. Available on GitHub Marketplace.
n8n Workflow Backups
Ready-to-import n8n workflow that backs up every workflow on your instance to a GitHub repository, one JSON file each. Commits only when a workflow is new or has changed, so the repo history doubles as a change log.
Writing
Notes on infrastructure, tooling, and problems I've run into, from my Medium.
Understanding VPC: The Easiest Way
Hi ! welcome here :) So you’ve just started diving into cloud computing. Maybe you’re trying out AWS , GCP, or Azure, and suddenly this scar…
Jan 2025 · 9 min readUsing Terraform to Attach an EBS Volume to an EC2 Instance During Boot
Just an average thumbnail 😆 If you’ve ever worked with AWS, you know how vital Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes can be for your EC2 instan…
Jan 2025 · 3 min readChaining Workflows in GitHub Actions: Triggering One Workflow After Another
GitHub Actions has become a go-to tool for automating CI/CD pipelines. One of the most common requirements in CI/CD workflows is the ability…
My Journey
An overview of the journey that has shaped who I am today.
DevOps Software Engineer at Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Remote, Kathmandu
On secondment from NAXA to HOT's Tech & Data team, working on the infrastructure behind open-source mapping tools used in disaster response. Run the Tasking Manager's AWS infrastructure on ECS with Terraform, manage services on Kubernetes (EKS) with ArgoCD, Helm and Sealed Secrets, and keep CI/CD on GitHub Actions up to date.
October 2026 - Present
DevOps Engineer at NAXA
Shantinagar, Kathmandu
Own AWS production infrastructure for client platforms end to end with Terraform and Terragrunt. Moved CI/CD from Jenkins to GitHub Actions and cut build-and-deploy time from 20-25 to 5-10 minutes with layer caching and multi-stage builds. Replaced long-lived AWS keys with OIDC, moved production access to Teleport, and built cross-account observability with CloudWatch Observability Access Manager and Grafana. Lead incidents through to written post-mortems and mentor intern and trainee engineers.
July 2024 - Present
DevOps Engineer at GeoNadir
Remote, part-time
Client work through NAXA with GeoNadir's DevOps and development team on their Australian drone and satellite imagery platform. Maintained AWS infrastructure (ECS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3), worked on GPU worker autoscaling driven by RabbitMQ queue depth, and deployed containerised CUDA workloads with Docker and Celery.
September 2025 - October 2026DevOps Intern at NAXA
Baluwatar, Kathmandu
Three months of learning fast and hands-on, which led to a full-time role. Helped maintain CI/CD pipelines and Git workflows, learned AWS and Linux administration, and documented deployment workflows so the next person would not have to guess.
April 2024 - June 2024Get In Touch
Please contact me directly at [email protected] or through this form.