available for thesis & internship roles

Ridham Pansara
builds secure
cloud-native infrastructure.

Master’s student in Computer Engineering for IoT Systems focused on cloud computing, DevOps automation, containerization, cloud security, and scalable infrastructure.

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01 about

I'm a master's student in Computer Engineering for IoT Systems at Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences, Germany, with a strong focus on cloud computing, DevOps, and cloud security.

My work spans cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, along with containers and Infrastructure as Code tools including Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform. I also have hands-on experience with CI/CD automation, cloud infrastructure, and building scalable backend solutions.

I'm currently looking for a master's thesis or internship opportunity in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or cloud security, where I can apply my technical skills, learn from experienced professionals, and contribute to building secure, reliable, and production-ready cloud solutions.

📍 LOCATION
Karlsruhe, Germany
☁️ FOCUS
Cloud Computing & DevOps
🌍 LANGUAGES
English fluent, German A2–B1
🎯 LOOKING FOR
Thesis / Internship — Cloud Infra
02 technical stack
☁️ Cloud Platforms
80%
☁️ AWS 🔷 Azure 🌐 GCP
🟧 AWS Services
78%
🖥️ EC2 🪣 S3 🌍 CloudFront 🧭 Route 53 🔑 IAM 🕸️ VPC 📊 CloudWatch λ Lambda
🏗️ Infrastructure as Code
72%
🏗️ Terraform 📄 YAML { } JSON ⚙️ Infrastructure Automation
🐧 Linux & Networking
84%
🐧 Linux ⌨️ Bash 🔐 SSH 🌐 DNS 🔒 HTTP/HTTPS 📡 TCP/IP ⚖️ Load Balancing
🔐 Cloud Security
74%
🔑 IAM/RBAC 🔒 Encryption 🛡️ TLS/HTTPS 🚧 Security Groups 🤫 Secrets Management
📊 Monitoring & Observability
70%
📊 CloudWatch 🔥 Prometheus 📈 Grafana 📝 Logging 📏 Metrics 🚨 Alerts
💻 Programming & Scripting
78%
🐍 Python ⌨️ Bash ☕ Java 🟢 Node.js ⚡ C/C++
🤝 Professional Skills
86%
💬 Communication 🤝 Teamwork 📝 Documentation 🧩 Problem Solving
📚

Currently Learning

Building deeper cloud-native and DevOps skills step by step.

☸️ Advanced Kubernetes 🔐 Cloud Security 📦 Helm Charts 📊 Observability with Grafana 🏗️ Terraform Modules
03 projects
● deployed

🦊 GitLab CI/CD Build–Test–Deploy Pipeline

Hands-on GitLab CI/CD learning project focused on DevOps workflows, automated testing, build artifacts, Docker-based CI environments, quality checks, environment variables, and deployment practice with Netlify, AWS S3, EC2, SSH, and SCP.

186 commits 1 environment Build/test/deploy
GitLab CI/CD Node.js Vite Vitest ESLint AWS CLI Netlify
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What I built

A GitLab pipeline that installs dependencies, builds the app, runs tests, checks quality, saves artifacts, and practices deployment flows.

Problem solved

Moved from manual project checks to repeatable CI jobs with artifacts, linting, unit tests, secrets, and deployment variables.

Result

Practical CI/CD knowledge covering runners, Docker images in CI, merge requests, Netlify deploys, AWS S3, EC2, SSH, and SCP.

Install Build Test Lint Artifacts Deploy
● published

🐳 Docker Essentials — Containerized App Workflow

Containerized a Python hello-world application and published the latest image to Docker Hub. The image targets linux/amd64, includes the app file in the image layer, and runs the container with python app.py.

Docker Hub image linux/amd64 37.59 MB compressed
Docker Python Dockerfile Image Layers Container Workflow
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What I built

A small Python app packaged into a Docker image and published under the python-hello-world latest tag.

What I practiced

Docker image publishing, image layers, base image usage, app file copying, and container command execution.

Result

A shareable Docker Hub image that demonstrates a basic containerized application workflow.

App Dockerfile Image Docker Hub Run Container
● completed

📡 IoT Sensor STM32 + LoRa + BME680

Microcontroller-based IoT prototype for smart environmental sensing and long-range wireless data communication using STM32 NUCLEO-G071RB, BME680 sensor, SX1262 LoRa HAT, UART, and PuTTY-based CLI commands.

STM32 firmware BME680 readings LoRa transmission
STM32 LoRa BME680 UART I2C SPI PuTTY CLI
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What I built

An STM32-based sensing prototype that reads temperature, humidity, pressure, and gas resistance from BME680.

How it works

Sensor data is accessed through CLI commands such as TEMP, HUM, PRESS, GAS, ALL, and transmitted using LoRa commands.

Result

A final embedded implementation using I2C, SPI, UART CLI control, automatic/manual readout, and LoRa data transmission.

BME680 STM32 UART CLI LoRa Receiver
● completed

🐧 Network Performance Benchmarking eBPF/XDP

Network performance analysis project using eBPF/XDP concepts to benchmark router throughput and latency, collect measurements, and support automated analysis with Python and shell tooling as part of IT Systems Performance Analysis work.

59 commits Measurements repo Throughput + latency
eBPF XDP Linux Networking Python Shell
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What I worked on

Benchmarking network behavior with performance-focused Linux networking concepts and measurement data.

Focus area

Router throughput, latency, packet-processing performance, and repeatable measurement collection.

Result

A documented performance-analysis repository with measurement material for IT Systems Performance Analysis.

Traffic Router eBPF/XDP Measurements Analysis
04 education & certifications
2023 — present
M.Eng. in Computer Engineering for IoT Systems
Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences, Germany
2017 — 2022
B.Eng. in Computer Engineering
Gujarat Technical University, India

Let’s build reliable cloud infrastructure.

Open to master’s thesis and internship opportunities where I can contribute to cloud infrastructure, DevOps automation, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud security.

📍 Location Karlsruhe, Germany
🎯 Looking for Thesis / Internship
☁️ Focus Cloud, DevOps, Security