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Harshit
Maann

I keep infrastructure secure, automated, and boring in the best way. Linux to Kubernetes, pipelines to production. Azure & GCP certified.

📍 Toronto, ON 🇨🇦 · Lakehead University, BSc CS '26
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Hi, I'm Harshit Maann

An IT Operations and DevOps professional with 2+ years of experience supporting production systems, automating infrastructure, and resolving incidents in 24/7 environments. Currently a Consultant at FDM Group, building enterprise IT operations expertise.

I'm a Computer Science graduate from Lakehead University (First-Class Standing, Class of 2026), Azure and GCP certified, and happiest at the intersection of automation, security, and reliability: making infrastructure that deploys itself, heals itself, and doesn't page anyone at 3 a.m.

My journey started in New Delhi, took a sharp turn into a Thunder Bay winter, and now runs through Toronto. Along the way I led student governance, ran operations for a TEDx conference, and mentored first-year students. Good engineering, like good community, is about showing up consistently.

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📍 Toronto, ON 🎓 BSc CS, Feb 2026 ☁️ Azure & GCP certified 🗣️ EN · HI · PA · FR ❄️ minus 45°C certified
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BSc, Computer Science

Lakehead University logo Lakehead University · Thunder Bay, ON · Jan 2023 - Feb 2026
🎓 First-Class Standing 📈 3.7 GPA ⭐ Dean's List (multiple terms)
coursework

💻 Core Computer Science

Programming I (C) Programming II (C++) Object Oriented Programming (Java) Data Structures & Algorithms Software Engineering Operating Systems Computer Architecture Assembly Language & OS Programming Languages Theory of Computing Database Management Systems

☁️ Systems, Cloud & Security

Cloud Computing Big Data Computer Networks & Distributed Systems Cryptography & Network Security Mobile Computing Technology

📐 Mathematics

Calculus I Linear Algebra I Discrete Mathematics Logic, Set Theory & Proofs Elementary Probability & Statistics

🔭 Beyond the Terminal

Astronomy I & II Environmental Biology Crust of the Earth Music Appreciation Intro to Media & Film Production Academic & Professional Writing Technology, Society & Indigenous Peoples in Canada
certifications
Cloud Computing Fundamentals ↗ Infrastructure in Google Cloud ↗ Networking & Security in Google Cloud ↗ Developing a Google SRE Culture ↗ Develop Generative AI Apps in Azure ↗ Develop AI Information Extraction Solutions in Azure ↗ Build a Generative AI Chat App ↗
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Experience

FDM Group logo

Consultant, IT Operations

FDM Group
Apr 2026 - Present · Toronto, ON
  • Agile IT Service Management with ITIL processes in ServiceNow: change requests, incident resolution, knowledge management.
  • Azure administration across VMs, networking, storage, identity and monitoring.
  • Linux administration and container operations, with Bash and Python automation, including interfacing with AI through LLM API calls.
  • Built DevOps automation workflows with Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes, using Jenkins for CI/CD to support repeatable deployments.
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Financial Systems Analyst

HPG Property Development
Aug 2024 - Jul 2025 · Thunder Bay, ON
  • Automated financial reporting workflows with Python and Excel VBA, cutting manual processing time by 40%.
  • Supported SQL Server operations: queries, stored procedures, schema updates, and connectivity troubleshooting.
  • Delivered KPI dashboards and documented recurring processes to keep systems reliable for the operations team.
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Supervisor

Gateway Casinos & Entertainment
Jun 2023 - May 2026 · Thunder Bay, ON
  • Supervised front-line operations in a high-volume 24/7 environment: staffing, escalations, and real-time problem solving.
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Operations Manager

TEDxLakeheadU
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
  • Directed end-to-end operations for a multi-speaker TEDx conference: logistics, budgets, vendors, and volunteer teams.
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Member, Board of Directors

Lakehead University Student Union (LUSU)
May 2024 - Apr 2025
  • Board-level governance: budgets, motions, policy oversight, and representing student interests.

Earlier: Peer Mentor at Lakehead University · Student Counselor at Amity International School, New Delhi (2018-2021) · Student Mentor at a Toyota road-safety hackathon, IIT Delhi · Team Leader, F1 in Schools.

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Skills

☁️ Cloud Platforms

Azure Google Cloud AWS

⚙️ DevOps & CI/CD

Docker Kubernetes GitHub Actions GitLab Git Jenkins Ansible Terraform Prometheus Grafana

🖥️ Systems & Networking

Linux Bash Windows Admin Networking

💻 Programming

Python C C++ Java JavaScript HTML5 SQL PostgreSQL FastAPI Pandas

🤖 AI & RAG

RAG Pipelines Ollama pgvector Sentence Transformers LLM APIs

🛡️ ITSM & Practices

ITIL ServiceNow Agile / Scrum Incident Management Security-first

🗣️ Languages

AEnglish अHindi ੳPunjabi ÇFrench (limited working)
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deployments

Projects

ContractIQ · AI Document Intelligence

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Full-stack RAG platform: upload PDFs and ask questions in natural language, with answers grounded in the document. PDF extraction, chunking, embeddings, pgvector semantic search, and local Llama 3.2 inference via Ollama.

React FastAPI PostgreSQL + pgvector Ollama · Llama 3.2 Docker

Cloud Chaos Lab

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Chaos engineering and observability lab: simulates service failures, validates recovery behavior, and visualizes system health with Prometheus metrics and Grafana dashboards.

Python Prometheus Grafana Docker

Casino AppSupport

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Production-style application support lab: simulated upstream dependency failures, structured logs, health checks, smoke tests, and CI validation to practice incident triage and recovery.

FastAPI Python Prometheus GitHub Actions

Platform Architecture Lab

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Architecture-first platform design covering applications, data, integration, infrastructure, security, observability, and operations, documented with system boundaries, platform layers, and technical trade-offs.

Platform Design Architecture Docs Security Observability

Cloud Data Pipeline · Taxi Analytics

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Python data pipeline for taxi analytics: ingestion, transformation, and reporting in a cloud-style ETL workflow producing analytics-ready outputs.

Python Pandas ETL Workflow Reporting

→ more on github.com/harshitmaann

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Awards & Achievements

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Featured in Maclean's Magazine ↗

Profiled as a voice representing the international student community across Canada.

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Convocation Student Speaker 2026 ↗

Delivered the Voices from the Class address at Lakehead University's Spring Convocation. Watch the speech.

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Lakehead Leaders Award 2024-25 ↗

Innovation and Sustainability category, for campus leadership.

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First-Class Standing ↗

BSc Computer Science, February 2026.
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Cloud Certified: Google ×4 + Azure ×3

Google Cloud: Cloud Computing Fundamentals, Infrastructure, Networking & Security, Developing a Google SRE Culture · Azure: Generative AI Apps, AI Information Extraction, Generative AI Chat App.

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Dean's List

Multiple terms, for academic excellence.

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Let's connect

Cloud engineering, DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or a good conversation about infrastructure done right. My inbox is open.

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