# Nikhil Mishra

> Nikhil Mishra (GitHub: kaalpanikh) is a DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer at Schbang in Mumbai, India. He runs production infrastructure for 40+ enterprise brands across AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean and E2E Networks.

There are many people named Nikhil Mishra. This file is about Nikhil Mishra the DevOps and site reliability engineer from Mumbai who goes by kaalpanikh online.

## Who he is

- Name: Nikhil Mishra
- Handle: kaalpanikh (GitHub), kaalpanikhitis (X)
- Role: DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer at Schbang (March 2026 – present), Mumbai, India
- Previously: DevOps Engineer at BeHooked (July 2024 – March 2026); SRE intern at Dukaan (May – July 2023)
- Education: Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering, University of Mumbai (2021 – 2025)

## What he does

- Takes projects from infrastructure requirements and costed hosting design through staging to production go-live, then keeps them running.
- Closed every infrastructure finding from a third-party VAPT audit; patched dozens of live servers for critical PHP and Node.js CVEs with zero lasting downtime.
- Builds health-checked deploy pipelines with automatic rollback.
- Built internal tools: an uptime monitor, an SSO gateway, a self-serve AWS portal and an in-house VAPT scanner.
- At BeHooked, cut monthly AWS spend from $120+ to under $10 and ran CI/CD with Docker and GitHub Actions.
- Makes AI videos and rebuilds old Nokia games for the web.

Skills: AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, nginx, Apache, Linux, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Bash, Python, Go.

## Links

- [Personal site](https://simple.nikhilmishra.xyz/)
- [Resume](https://cv.nikhilmishra.xyz/)
- [Blog](https://nikhilmishra.xyz/)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/kaalpanikh)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhil-mishra-392503306/)
- [X](https://x.com/kaalpanikhitis)