DevOps engineer → AI & app developer

Praveendhra Rajkumar

I build AI developer tools and apps, and ship them to production.

DevOps Engineer at Bright Horizons, building MCP servers, GitHub Copilot agents and LLM tooling at work, and Flutter and web apps on my own time. Greater Boston, open to remote.

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5+years shipping production systems
99%+releases on schedule
30%faster incident recovery
3apps built end to end

Open to AI & software roles

Projects

Apps I've built

Built, deployed and run end to end. Try the live ones.

Live

Momentum

A self-improvement tracker for workouts, habits, skills and mood, with a GitHub-style progress graph. Supabase auth and Postgres, deployed through GitHub Actions on a custom domain.

JavaScript
Supabase
PostgreSQL
GitHub Actions

Open live app Source

Live · iOS in progress

Task Tracker: Step by Step

A Flutter task app for breaking work into steps and tracking progress across devices. Pushes to the source repo build the app and publish it to a second repo on GitHub Pages.

Flutter
Dart
GitHub Pages
GitHub Actions

Open live app Source

Under construction

Cadence: Interval Alarm

A Flutter alarm app that rings at set intervals between a start and end time, with pre-ring reminders, custom audio import and preloaded tunes I synthesized in code. Testing on TestFlight ahead of the App Store.

Flutter
Dart
iOS
Local notifications

App Store: coming soon Source

AI tooling I've built at work

Internal to Bright Horizons, so no public links. Happy to walk through any of them.

MCP servers

One SSO-authenticated path into GitHub, Azure DevOps and Dynatrace for every engineer.

AI cherry-pick agent

Comment on a PR and the Copilot coding agent prepares the cherry-pick.

Copilot metrics

Adoption tooling on Azure and PostgreSQL, plus custom developer agents.

LLM fine-tuning study

Scoped tuning an open-weight model on runbooks and incidents on Azure GPU VMs.

Earlier projects

Intelligent Heart Disease Prediction — Random Forest model with 96% accuracy; published research. Read the paper
Meeting App — Flask and PostgreSQL church management tool with Stripe payments and Document AI OCR (UMass Boston).
Inventory Comparison Service — Java tool comparing primary and DR inventories before failover drills (Zoho).
ANPR Parking System — OpenCV number-plate recognition for automated parking entry and exit.
Arduino Driveway Lights — motion and ambient-light sensors that switch lights on only when needed.

About

I build the systems that let teams ship with confidence.

Then I automate the parts nobody wants to do. I'm a DevOps engineer at Bright Horizons, and most of what I build now is software: AI developer tools and automation services at work, and mobile and web apps on my own time.

I started on Zoho's in-house cloud management console (Java, Struts), did platform work at UMass Boston while finishing my MS in Computer Science, and today run CI/CD, Azure infrastructure and release engineering for business-critical .NET apps.

Being able to build a tool and run it in production is the edge I bring to AI and app teams.

Experience

Where I've shipped

DevOps Engineer

Bright Horizons · Newton, MA (Hybrid)

Jun 2024 – Present
- Built production MCP servers (TypeScript) giving engineers one SSO-authenticated path into GitHub, Azure DevOps and Dynatrace, with Azure AD OAuth On-Behalf-Of and API Management; in use org-wide.
- Built an AI cherry-pick workflow: a /ai-cherry-pick PR comment assigns the GitHub Copilot coding agent to prepare the change.
- Deployed Copilot metrics tooling on Azure and PostgreSQL and built custom agents that drove Copilot adoption.
- Leading the Azure DevOps → GitHub migration: 7 Python migration scripts plus GitHub Actions automation and org-wide rulesets.
- 99%+ of bi-weekly releases on schedule; MTTR down 30%; configuration drift down 45% with Terraform.
- TypeScript
- Python
- MCP
- GitHub Copilot
- Azure
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
Platform Engineer (part-time)

UMass Boston, IT Services · Boston, MA

Sep 2022 – May 2024
- Jenkins pipelines for 15+ internal tools; deploys went from days to under 15 minutes.
- Python and Bash automation for 200+ ticket workflows, cutting manual resolution time 35%.
- Prometheus and Grafana alerting that cut incident detection time 40%; zero-downtime 500 GB+ migration with Ansible.
- Python
- Docker
- Azure
- Jenkins
- Ansible
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Zoho Corporation · Chennai, India

Dec 2019 – Sep 2022
- Fixed high-priority bugs and shipped improvements in Zoho's in-house cloud management console (Java, Struts, JavaScript).
- Designed a configuration-comparison system that flags drift between production and DR before a failover exposes it.
- Ran Kafka pipelines, NGINX/F5 routing, VMware ESXi and quarterly DR switchovers.
- Java
- Struts
- MySQL
- Kafka
- VMware
Software Engineer Intern

Zoho Corporation · Chennai, India

Jun – Jul 2019
- Built an internal full-stack tool in Java, JavaScript and MySQL for the infrastructure team.

Skills

What I work with

AI & LLM

MCP servers
GitHub Copilot agents
LLM applications
Prompt engineering
Azure AI Foundry
Fine-tuning

Languages

Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Java
Dart
PowerShell
Bash
SQL

Apps & APIs

Flutter
Node.js
REST
GraphQL
OAuth / SSO
Supabase
Struts

Cloud & DevOps

Azure
AWS
GCP
Kubernetes
Docker
Terraform
GitHub Actions
Azure DevOps

Data

PostgreSQL
SQL Server
MySQL
Kafka

Observability

Dynatrace
App Insights
Prometheus
Grafana

Certifications

HashiCorp Terraform Associate (004)Aug 2026
Microsoft Azure AI FundamentalsAug 2026
AWS DevOps on AWS SpecializationMar 2025
AWS Containerized Applications on AWSMar 2025

Education

M.S. Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Boston2022 – 2024
B.E. Computer Science, St. Joseph's College of Engineering (Anna University)2016 – 2020

Contact

Building AI tools or apps?

I'd like to hear about it. Message me and I'll walk you through what I've built.

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