Gajesh Bhat

Summary

Senior Software Engineer passionate about working with complex systems and enhancing software delivery. I specialize in designing and implementing scalable CI/CD pipelines, optimizing build, test, and release processes to accelerate development cycles, and partnering with cross-functional teams to ship high-quality software.

Experience

  1. Sept 2024 Present

    Software Engineer (DevOps)

    Motorola Solutions · Vancouver, BC

    • Streamline Build, Test, and release infrastructure workflows for the Avigilon Unity product line to improve engineering efficiency.
    • Distributed Systems Optimization: Re-architected container deployment logic for a distributed Camera Simulator System (NodeJS, Vue, Portainer), reducing error rates by 40% and enabling smooth multi-camera simulation workflows.
    • Infrastructure Automation: Automated AWS resource deployment and AMI image builds using Terraform and Packer, establishing scalable GitOps workflows. Migrated legacy Bash/PowerShell scripts to Ansible playbooks to improve maintainability.
    • Internal Tooling: Developed a Python-based CLI tool to automate license key generation and activation for Avigilon Unity, removing bottlenecks in nightly integration tests.
    • Knowledge Management: Led the standardization of internal documentation using the Diátaxis framework to improve onboarding and knowledge organization in the Tools and Infrastructure team.
  2. Aug 2023 Sept 2024

    Software Engineer (DevOps)

    Lumotive · Vancouver, BC

    • Established the DevOps function at Lumotive from the ground up, supporting the team that shipped the world’s first software-defined LiDAR.
    • Build System Architecture: Established the Development Enablement function from scratch. Architected automated pipelines for Yocto-based embedded OS images using Python and Bash.
    • Performance Engineering: Implemented an Icecream distributed compilation cluster with caching, reducing Yocto build times for reference hardware by 40%.
    • Scalable Infrastructure: Architected a build infrastructure using MicroK8s and Bitbucket Runner Autoscaler for on-demand scaling (authored a community article on this setup).
    • Quality & Compliance: Engineered Python automation to integrate Testflinger for hardware-in-the-loop testing triggered by nightly builds. Implemented pipelines supporting High-Integrity C++ and SEI Secure C (CERT C) standards.
  3. Apr 2021 Apr 2023

    Software Developer (DevOps)

    Fortinet · Vancouver, BC

    • Benchmarking Systems: Built a Performance Test System using Python and MySQL to automate AV Comparative benchmarking across x86 and ARM architectures (Ubuntu, RHEL, Windows Server).
    • System Reliability: Developed analytics features using Python and Shell for the Distributed AV Engine Verification System, which verifies signature updates sent to global customers every 30 minutes.
    • Legacy Maintenance: Diagnosed critical production crashes on RHEL servers caused by unmanaged logs and deployed logrotate policies to ensure continuous uptime.

Education

  • 2019 – 2021

    Master's degree, Computer Science

    Western University

  • 2015 – 2018

    Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

    Bangalore University