How Viney Khokar Builds Automation Pipelines That Shape Cloud-Ready Infrastructure

In the ongoing race between legacy operations and cloud-native agility, infrastructure bottlenecks often stifle innovation. While development teams accelerate their delivery cycles, traditional infrastructure practices struggle to keep up. Viney Khokar, a Silicon Valley-based cloud automation architect, has quietly emerged as one of the engineers reshaping that balance.
Khokar isn’t interested in buzzwords or hype. His focus lies in building automation systems that deliver real, measurable impact across global-scale environments. Over a 20+ year career, he has architected tools and pipelines that replace fragile, manual processes with reliable automation that scales, consistently and securely.

An Early Bet on Open Source
Khokar came of age as an engineer during a pivotal shift in enterprise computing. As companies moved away from proprietary Unix, he earned Red Hat certification in 2006 and in 2025 became one of the first 138 Red Hat Accelerators worldwide. That choice put him on the front lines of the Open-Source movement, where agility, scalability, and transparency are essential.

His early focus on Linux grew into a broader mission to make infrastructure more responsive, more reliable, and much faster to deploy. Engineers with deep skills across Linux, Veritas Storage, and high availability were rare at the time, and Mr. Khokar was one of the few with that combination.

Turning Pipelines into Platforms
In practice, Khokar’s automation frameworks are a fusion of industry-standard tools Terraform, Ansible, Python, Jenkins, HashiCorp Packer, and GitHub Actions, woven together to form highly resilient, self-validating systems.

For example, when new code is committed to a repository, it doesn’t wait in a queue. His pipelines automatically kick off image builds, spin up hardened VMs, provision cloud resources, and configure clustered applications in hours instead of days. These environments are often deployed with zero manual steps, using high-availability patterns typically reserved for mission-critical systems.

“Speed is important,” Khokar notes, “but predictability is even more critical. Automation is not just about saving time; it’s about enforcing consistency at scale.”

Beyond Scripts: Automation as Knowledge Transfer
What sets his approach apart isn’t just the tooling, it’s the underlying design philosophy. In Khokar’s world, automation isn’t a convenience layer. it’s a means of codifying hard-earned tribal knowledge. Kernel tuning, high-availability configurations, and even disaster recovery setups are embedded directly into playbooks, reducing risk and accelerating onboarding for new teams.

Colleagues familiar with his work say he brings structure to chaos, turning scattered documentation and isolated processes into unified, repeatable pipelines. The result is infrastructure that can be deployed across any region, in any cloud, with the same precision every time.

From Infrastructure as Code to Infrastructure as Data
While most automation architects continue to evolve their Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capabilities, Khokar is already operating in the next phase: Infrastructure as Data.

His most recent work includes systems that don’t just deploy, they observe. These platforms monitor infrastructure state in real-time, detect drift, and auto-correct without human intervention. In regulated environments where compliance and uptime are paramount, this approach doesn’t just reduce tickets, it virtually eliminates entire categories of risk.

“There’s a huge shift happening,” Khokar says. “We’re moving from reactive infrastructure to proactive systems that understand themselves.”

A Quiet Force Behind Resilient Cloud Systems
Despite the technical complexity of his work, Khokar maintains a pragmatic approach. He doesn’t chase trends, he builds foundations. Over the years, his automation frameworks have powered database platforms, protected high-availability clusters, and supported critical systems without fanfare.

As cloud platforms evolve and enterprises race toward zero-ops futures, engineers like Viney Khokar are quietly building the bridges to get there, one pipeline at a time.

“Automation isn’t about removing people,” he adds. “It’s about freeing them to focus on what actually moves the business forward.”