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Jaival Saija

Working Student / Junior DevOps & Cloud Engineer · AWS · GitHub Actions · Docker · Linux

Kaiserslautern, Germanysaijajaival@gmail.comgithub.com/Jaivallinkedin.com/in/jaivalsaijaStudent residence permit (§16b AufenthG), eligible for working student jobs (20 h/week)
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Projects

2026–

Job-Hunt Agent · automated job search with Claude Code

Claude CodeMCP (Gmail, Indeed)Pythongithub.com/Jaival/jobhunt-agent
  • Scheduled Claude Code routine that pulls job ads from APIs, an Indeed connector and Gmail alerts, scores them against my CV and drafts applications for my review; Python tools keep a job ledger and block drafts with placeholders. Nothing is sent automatically.
2026–

mdgloss · markdown reader for highlighting and commenting (pre-alpha)

Tauri 2ReactTypeScriptRustgithub.com/Jaival/mdgloss
  • Annotations are stored next to the files, which never change; CI checks the frontend and Rust code, and a release workflow builds Windows and macOS binaries.
2026–

Kubernetes Lab · self-built learning lab on a local cluster (in progress)

kindHelmPrometheusGrafanagithub.com/Jaival/kubernetes-learning-lab
  • Multi-node kind cluster running; adding Helm charts and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, then a CI-deployed capstone.
2026

NextGleis · Android departure board for German buses and trains

ExpoReact NativeTypeScriptNode.js on Vercelgithub.com/Jaival/NextGleis
  • Live departures through a serverless proxy that turns transport-API XML into JSON and keeps the keys off the device; CI runs type checks, tests and npm audit; APK on GitHub.
2026–

Invoicely · invoicing app for freelancers (in development)

Next.jsPostgres (Neon)DrizzleBetter Authinvoicely-roan.vercel.app
  • Google sign-in, email verification and organizations; CI runs lint, type checks, tests and Playwright end-to-end tests.
2026

NextToBinge · one search for movies, dramas and anime

Next.jsSupabaseDrizzleClerknexttobinge.vercel.app
  • Trending lists and watchlists for every title; CI checks lint, types, tests and the build.

Experience

Master's preparation and move to Germany · 2022 – 2023

2021–22

Maven Infosoft Pvt. Ltd. · Ahmedabad, India

Junior DevOps Engineer

June 2021 – March 2022

  • Resolved 50+ production incidents in my first six months as the first contact for infrastructure alerts on my shift, tracing them through logs and fixing the networking faults behind most of them.
  • Automated testing, UAT and dev deployments for 3 products by building their GitHub Actions pipelines.
  • Secured Dev, Stage and Production on AWS (EC2, S3, VPC) for a .NET CMS product and its 7-person team by writing least-privilege IAM policies and segmenting the VPC.
  • Caught 8–10 CPU and memory problems before customers noticed with AWS CloudWatch alarms; added Python uptime checks run as cron jobs on Linux.
  • Cut new-developer onboarding time by 30% and maintenance time by 20% by writing the deployment runbooks from scratch and rewriting the update SOPs; led monthly post-mortems with developers, each covering 4–6 incidents.
  • Trained 7 teammates in Docker as the team began moving its deployment pipeline to containers.
2020

Apexa Information System Pvt. Ltd. · Ahmedabad, India

Junior Developer (Intern)

January 2020 – June 2020

  • Shipped a cross-platform task manager for iOS and Android by building it end to end in Flutter with a Firebase backend that syncs data in real time.
  • Designed the app's data model and took it live on Firebase Hosting, fixing the 5–6 bugs and UI issues raised in senior developers' code reviews.
  • Later rebuilt it as the open-source app Taskly (github.com/Jaival/taskly-flutter) with Riverpod, offline support, and GitHub Actions CI that tests it and builds releases for 4 platforms.
2019

Ganpat University · Ahmedabad, India

Mobile App Developer (In-house)

May 2019 – June 2019

  • Replaced long email chains for booking meetings by building a scheduling app, from the interface to a test phase with professors and my 4-person student team.

Education

2023–27

RPTU Kaiserslautern · Kaiserslautern, Germany

M.Sc. Computer Science

2023 – 2027 (expected)

  • Focus: Distributed Systems and Network Security.
2017–21

Ganpat University · Ahmedabad, India

B.Tech CSE (Cloud-Based Applications)

August 2017 – May 2021

  • CGPA: 8.67 / 10.0 (top 10% of class)
  • Specialized in cloud applications early: serverless functions and cloud networking.

Certifications

  • AWS Cloud Quest: Generative AI Practitioner
  • AWS Academy Cloud Foundations
  • Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals
  • Cisco CCNA R&S: Introduction to Networks (course)

Skills

Cloud

AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch)Firebase

CI/CD & IaC

GitHub ActionsTerraform (basics)Git

Containers

Docker

Linux & Scripting

Linux administrationBashPythoncron

Networking & Security

VPC segmentationleast-privilege IAMsubnetting and routing (CCNA ITN course)

Code & Data

PythonJavaScriptFlutter (Dart)PostgreSQLMySQLFirestore

AI-assisted engineering

Claude CodeMCP connectorsscheduled agent workflows

Learning

KubernetesHelmPrometheusGrafana

Languages

English

Business fluent (C1), used daily at work and university

German

A1, actively learning

Hindi/Gujarati

Native

Leadership

Placement Coordinator

Ganpat University (2021). Connected classmates with recruiters and organized campus tech events with companies.