About
GGundBits is a collection of hands‑on cloud engineering guides — the kind of write‑ups I wish existed when you are on a deadline and need something that actually works.
I’m Gaurav Gundal, a DevOps / cloud engineer with 17+ years in software and infrastructure, currently working at Amazon Web Services. Most of my work has been building and operating enterprise cloud solutions — taking complex, regulated environments and making them reliable, automatable, and observable.
On GGundBits I focus on enterprise solutions, not toy examples:
- Cloud foundations and migrations: AWS Landing Zones, account vending, and large‑scale application moves where hundreds of workloads have to land safely.
- Platform and CI/CD engineering: Reusable pipelines, CDK/Terraform patterns, and automation that cuts deployments from hours to minutes.
- Enterprise integrations: ServiceNow, VMware, and other platforms that need to plug cleanly into modern cloud architectures.
- MLOps on AWS: Practical patterns for Glue, EMR on EKS, Bedrock, and ML‑focused CI/CD that treat data and models like first‑class deployable assets.
Every post is backed by a public GitHub repository so you can:
- See the full implementation, not just snippets.
- Fork and adapt the patterns to your environment.
- Reproduce the architecture from scratch when you come back months later.
You can also find some of my writing on the official AWS blogs:
- Simplify and optimize Python package management for AWS Glue PySpark jobs with AWS CodeArtifact — aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/simplify-and-optimize-python-package-management-for-aws-glue-pyspark-jobs-with-aws-codeartifact/
- Run and debug Apache Spark applications on AWS with Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS — aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/run-and-debug-apache-spark-applications-on-aws-with-amazon-emr-on-amazon-eks/
- Streamline container image signatures with Amazon ECR managed signing — aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/streamline-container-image-signatures-with-amazon-ecr-managed-signing/
- Expanding container security and choice with Amazon ECR Public — aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/expanding-container-security-and-choice-with-amazon-ecr-public/
If you’d like to connect, you can:
- Follow the code on GitHub: github.com/ggund
- Connect on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/gauravgundal
Future posts will cover more AWS identity patterns, multi‑account topologies, MLOps, and practical reliability work — with an emphasis on demos that are safe to run in a personal or sandbox account.