name: Vivek C Raj
role: Aspiring Software / Cloud & DevOps Engineer
education: MCA Final Year
location: Bengaluru, India
focus:
- Cloud Engineering
- DevOps & CI/CD
- Backend Development
- Linux & Automation
- Generative AI
currently_learning:
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Jenkins
- Terraform
- Spring Boot
- AI/LLM ApplicationsI'm an MCA Final Year student focused on building practical software, cloud, and DevOps projects.
I enjoy taking applications from source code → automation → infrastructure → deployment, while continuously improving my understanding of Linux, cloud platforms, containers, CI/CD, backend systems, and AI.
Software Engineering · Backend Development · Cloud Engineering · DevOps · SRE · System Engineering · GenAI
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│ GitHub │
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│ Jenkins │
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│ Docker │
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│ AWS │
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│ Nginx │
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│ Application │
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LLMs · Prompt Engineering · RAG · Vector Databases · AI APIs · AI Evaluation · Human-in-the-Loop
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Java · Spring Boot · MySQL · AWS EC2 REST API backend deployed on AWS.
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Bash · Linux · CLI Automation Lightweight Linux monitoring utility.
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AWS S3 · HTML · CSS Cloud-hosted static website demonstrating:
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Django · Python · MySQL Full-stack flower shopping platform.
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Python · YOLOv8 · OpenCV · Flask · NumPy
Computer vision application that detects and classifies waste from images.
Image
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Preprocessing
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YOLOv8
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Object Detection
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Classification
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Confidence + Bounding Boxes
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Waste Category
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Segregation Recommendation
Categories:
Plastic Paper Metal Glass Organic E-Waste Others
LLM Evaluation · Prompt Engineering · Data Quality · HITL
Practical AI operations projects covering:
- AI response evaluation
- Correctness
- Clarity
- Completeness
- Grammar
- Safety
- Hallucination detection
- Data annotation quality
- Human-in-the-loop workflows
- Evaluation SOPs
| Project | Technologies |
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| EC2 + Nginx Deployment | AWS EC2 · Ubuntu · Nginx · Security Groups |
| EFS Shared Storage | AWS EFS · EC2 · NFS |
| CI/CD Pipeline | AWS CodePipeline · Elastic Beanstalk · GitHub |
| Static Website | AWS S3 · HTML · CSS |
| Infrastructure as Code | Terraform · AWS |
| Backend Deployment | Spring Boot · Maven · EC2 |
- AWS Solutions Architect — MicroDegree
- DevOps Engineer — MicroDegree
- AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials — AWS Skill Builder
- Linux Fundamentals
- Cisco Networking Basics — Cisco Networking Academy
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Generative AI Engineer — MicroDegree
LLMs·Prompt Engineering·RAG·Vector Databases·AI API Integration
CLOUD
├── AWS
│ ├── EC2
│ ├── S3
│ ├── IAM
│ ├── VPC
│ ├── EFS
│ └── Elastic Beanstalk
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DEVOPS
├── Git & GitHub
├── Jenkins
├── Docker
├── Kubernetes
├── Terraform
└── CI/CD
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BACKEND
├── Java
├── Spring Boot
├── REST APIs
├── MySQL
└── Microservices Fundamentals
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AI
├── LLMs
├── RAG
├── Prompt Engineering
├── Vector Databases
└── AI Agents
- 🚀 Build production-oriented cloud projects
- ☁️ Deepen AWS architecture knowledge
- 🔄 Build end-to-end CI/CD pipelines
- 🐳 Strengthen Docker & Kubernetes
- 🏗️ Automate infrastructure using Terraform
- 🐧 Improve Linux administration & troubleshooting
- ☕ Build stronger backend engineering skills
- 🤖 Explore LLM applications and AI agents
- 💼 Start my professional journey in Software / Cloud / DevOps
I believe the strongest way to learn engineering is to build real systems, troubleshoot real problems, understand how the pieces connect, and continuously improve.
