DevOps Engineer Current
VrixaaLabs Pvt Ltd · Internship · Remote
— Present
Infrastructure, containerized deployments, and CI/CD pipelines with Docker, GitHub Actions, and Linux in production.
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- Linux
- CI/CD
Open to internships & freelance work
Ricky Kashyap — DevOps & Embedded Systems Engineer in Guwahati, India
I build embedded hardware and the infrastructure it runs on.
I'm Ricky Kashyap, a DevOps Engineer at Creativlok and a computer science student at Gauhati University. I write firmware for ESP32 and RP2040, then deploy, monitor, and automate everything around it, from the soldering iron to the production pipeline.
Currently
DevOps Engineer
VrixaaLabs · since Jun 2026
Based in
Guwahati, India
— IST
Studying
B.Tech, Computer Science
Gauhati University · 2023–27
On GitHub
8 public repos
@priencelucifer
01 — About
Where hardware meets infrastructure.
I'm a computer science student at Gauhati University and a DevOps engineer at VrixaaLabs. My projects start at the workbench with a microcontroller, a soldering iron, and a bad idea. They end up deployed, monitored, and version-controlled.
Right now I'm building CI/CD pipelines at work, leading hackathons on the side, and running a small datacenter's worth of self-hosted services out of my room in Guwahati.
Solder side
Firmware in C and C++ on ESP32 and RP2040: BLE keyboards, HID devices, field sensors, and security keys. Bare metal, no OS, every byte accounted for.
- C / C++
- ESP32
- RP2040
- BLE HID
- PlatformIO
Deploy side
Docker, Proxmox, pfSense, Cloudflare, and Grafana. These run the dashboards my devices report to, all self-hosted, tunneled, and redeployed on every git push.
- Docker
- Proxmox
- GitHub Actions
- Cloudflare
- Grafana
02 — Experience
Where I've worked.
Internships and leadership roles across infrastructure, product, and events. Newest first.
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Hackathon Lead
CYPHER Hackdays · Leadership · Guwahati
Led the CYPHER hackathon, from the event itself to the problem statements and the teams behind it.
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Project Intern
Innect Technologies Pvt. Ltd. · Internship · Assam · Hybrid
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Intern
Airports Authority of India · Guwahati Airport · On-site
03 — Projects
Things I've built.
Firmware, field hardware, and production deployments, from a $4 microcontroller to a live storefront.
Featured · Field-deployed
RoadSense
Crowd-sourced road-hazard intelligence for Indian cities.
ESP32 nodes on vehicles and a Kotlin Android app report potholes and speed breakers into a live Mapbox heatmap, processed at the edge on Cloudflare.
- ESP32
- Kotlin
- Mapbox GL
- Cloudflare D1
- Edge Functions
4
Corne BLE Keyboard
Hardware · Firmware
A handwired wireless split mechanical keyboard built from scratch. ESP32 BLE HID firmware with deep-sleep power management, an 18650 battery with TP4056 charging, and a 3D-printed case. No PCB.
- C++
- ESP32
- BLE HID
- PlatformIO
- 3D print
View on GitHub
Pico Web HID
Hardware · Wi-Fi
Turns a Raspberry Pi Pico into a browser-controlled keyboard, mouse, and macro device over local Wi-Fi. Any device on the network can send input to any machine, with no software to install.
- CircuitPython
- RP2040
- USB HID
- Wi-Fi
View on GitHub
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Agri IoT Sensors
IoT · Agriculture
A sensor node under ₹2000 that measures environmental and soil data for agriculture. Low-cost field telemetry built to make precision farming accessible.
- C++
- ESP32
- Soil / NPK
- Low-cost
View on GitHub
Pico Zero Security Key
Hardware · Security
A hardware security key built on the Raspberry Pi Pico, turning a $4 microcontroller into a CCID smart-card device with pico-keys-sdk.
- C
- RP2040
- CCID
- Security
View on GitHub
NotesHub
Web · Privacy
A peer-to-peer, privacy-first, account-free platform for sharing campus notes and past papers. Notes move between peers, not through someone else's server.
- TypeScript
- P2P
- Privacy
View on GitHub
Live
Guwahati Water Dept
Client · Internal tool
A private internal platform deployed for the Guwahati water department, which the team uses as a pin board and internal messaging tool. I handled deployment, hosting, and access setup.
- Internal tool
- Messaging
- Deployment
Private client project
Live
Creativlok
Client · E-commerce
An e-commerce storefront I took to production end to end: hosting provisioning, domain and DNS configuration, SSL certificates, the production build and go-live, plus post-launch updates.
- E-commerce
- Hosting
- DNS / SSL
- Production
Client project
04 — Skills
The toolkit.
What I reach for, from the first line of firmware to the last deploy.
Firmware & Hardware
Microcontrollers, buses, and HID
- C
- C++
- ESP32
- Raspberry Pi Pico
- Arduino
- PlatformIO
- BLE
- USB HID
Languages
Scripting, tooling, and the web
- Python
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Bash
- HTML5
- Node.js
Networking & Infra
Edges, tunnels, and firewalls
- Cloudflare
- NGINX
- WireGuard
- Tailscale
- pfSense
- Pi-hole
DevOps & Deployment
Containers, pipelines, and monitoring
- Docker
- Proxmox
- GitHub Actions
- Portainer
- Grafana
- Linux
- Git
05 — Homelab
Everything runs on my own metal.
Everything I build gets deployed on infrastructure I run myself. Push to git and the lab redeploys itself, with the same pipeline discipline as production at homelab scale.
- Proxmox hypervisor behind a pfSense gateway with segmented VLANs
- Cloudflare Tunnel for public ingress
- Docker workloads, with Grafana watching all of it
- Automatic redeploy on every git push
Internet
Cloudflare Tunnelpublic ingress
pfSense gatewayVLANs · firewall
Proxmox hypervisoralways on
DockerPortainer
Pi-holeDNS sinkhole
Grafanatelemetry
auto-deploy on git push
06 — Contact
Let's build something together.
I'm open to internships, freelance hardware or infrastructure work, and interesting problems that involve a soldering iron, a terminal, or both. Email is the fastest way to reach me.