SagarGi - Overview

Hi, I'm Sagar Gurung 👋

Test Automation Engineer → DevOps

👨‍💻 About Me

• 🔧 Test Automation Engineer with 3+ years' experience, most of it building automation for large open-source projects like ownCloud and OpenProject Integration With Nextcloud.
• 🚀 Now moving into DevOps, with a focus on CI/CD pipelines and AWS cloud.
• 🎓 MSc in Software Engineering (University of West London) — dissertation: an empirical analysis on optimizing CI/CD build times in GitHub Actions using caching and parallelization.
• 🌱 Currently learning: AWS , Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform and Grafana/Prometheus.
• ✍️ I occasionally write technical blogs and maintain a small npm package.

🛠️ Tech Stack

CI/CD & DevOps

Currently Learning 🌱

Testing & QA

Languages & Web

🚀 Current Focus

Building an end-to-end project that takes a real application from automated testing → containerization → deployment on AWS, applying the CI/CD optimization work from my dissertation.

Roadmap

• Linux
• Scripting
• Networking Fundamentals
• CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)
• Containerization with Docker & docker-compose
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
• Ansible
• Grafana

✍️ Projects & Writing

• AWS + Ansible web app automated deployment
• Containerizing a web application with Docker Compose
• MSc Dissertation: Optimizing CI/CD build times in GitHub Actions
• sagar-text-image](https://www.npmjs.com/package/sagar-image-text) — an npm package for Vue
• Getting started with TestCafe

Open to DevOps, Test Automation, Cloud, CI/CD, and Build & Release roles in the UK.