Kunal Shah

DevOps Engineer

Dubai, United Arab Emirates9 yrs 11 mos experience
AI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • 10+ years of experience in Cloud and AI domains.
  • Expert in multi-cloud architecture and security.
  • Proven track record in reducing cloud costs significantly.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud and AI specialist with extensive experience in enterprise solutions.

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Core Skills

Cloud ArchitectureGenerative AiDevopsInfrastructure Management

Other Skills

Solution ArchitectureBlockchainTechnology TrendsWeb TechnologiesService-Oriented Architecture (SOA)OptimizationInfrastructure TechnologiesSecurity AutomationCloud-Native ArchitectureProject PlansArtificial Intelligence (AI)OpenShiftManaged ServicesStakeholder ManagementInfrastructure Automation

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โ˜๏ธ ๐€๐ˆ | ๐‚๐ฅ๐จ๐ฎ๐ | ๐ƒ๐š๐ญ๐š | ๐’๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐“๐ž๐œ๐ก๐ง๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ ๐„๐ง๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž๐ซ โ˜๏ธ #Efficiency #Efficacy #Expertise #Effective #Enabler AWS and Azure certified professional solutions architect with 10+ ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ž๐œ๐ก๐ง๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž in Cloud, Data, AI Domain. Customer & Projects ranging from Finance IT enterprise, EdTech, Ecommerce, Health Care, AI Imaging, Public Safety, Govt Cloud environment & on premise Infrastructure. โ€ข Develop, Delivered and managed ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข ๐œ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐š๐ซ๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž that are secure, cost-efficient, automated, scalable & reliable. โ€ข ๐“๐ž๐œ๐ก๐ง๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ for managed services enterprise customer for Identifying and executing infrastructure automation use cases, maintain health, Troubleshoot, Security of entire ๐€๐ณ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐€๐–๐’ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐œ๐ค within agreed SLAs. โ€ข Engaged as a ๐“๐ž๐œ๐ก๐ง๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ ๐€๐๐ฏ๐จ๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ 100+ ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ around Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Security and DevOps platforms. โ€ข Architected and deployed ๐†๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐€๐ˆ-๐›๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ณ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง systems using Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock, Lambda, API Gateway & Foundation LLM Models. โ€ข Designed, deployed and Implemented ๐€๐ณ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐Œ๐ข๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ญ ๐๐ž๐Ÿ๐ž๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ, ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ๐š (๐‚๐’๐๐Œ & ๐‚๐–๐๐) for 10+ customers, resolving 85% of security vulnerabilities. โ€ข Led 10+ ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฏ๐Ž๐ฉ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ using CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and best practices. โ€ข ๐’๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐จ๐ซ of Cloud ecosystem, Compute, Containers, Databases, Storage, AI/ML, Analytics, Multi-Cloud, Networking, Security, Serverless, Monitoring. โ€ข Proficient and experienced Azure and AWS ๐ˆ๐€๐€๐’, ๐๐€๐€๐’, ๐’๐€๐€๐’ services. โ€ข Reduced cloud costs by 20-30% using ๐‚๐ฅ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐Ž๐ฉ๐ฌ best practices. โ€ข Implementing Agile & SDLC methodologies, DevOps, Kubernetes (๐„๐Š๐’, ๐€๐Š๐’, ๐†๐Š๐„, ๐Ž๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐’๐ก๐ข๐Ÿ๐ญ), Docker, Cloud Native, Cloud networking, Cloud security, Operations, Infrastructure, FinOps, Gen AI & ML. Self-starter who is excited about learning new technologies. Forging Ideas into reality ! โ˜๏ธ๐Ÿง  My characteristics are excellent Interpersonal skills, flexible and professional attitude, perseverance in finding optimal solutions and a structured & efficient way of working. Strong information technology professional with a Bachelor's Degree focused in Information Technology Engineering from Sinhgad Institute of Technology, Pune

Experience

9 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 11 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Department of government enablement

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - AI, Cloud and Security

Jul 2025 โ€“ Present ยท 9 mos ยท Dubai, United Arab Emirates ยท On-site

Huco

Technology Lead - AWS | Azure | Data | AI | ML | Dev | Ops | Security

Jul 2023 โ€“ Jul 2025 ยท 2 yrs ยท Dubai, United Arab Emirates ยท On-site

  • Develop, Delivered and managed multi cloud architecture that are secure, cost-efficient, automated, scalable & reliable.
  • Collaborated with pre-sales teams to create 15+ tailored cloud solutions, addressing the needs of global enterprise customers.
  • Technical lead for managed services enterprise customer for Identifying and executing infrastructure automation use cases, maintain health, Troubleshoot, Security of entire Azure and AWS stack within agreed SLAs.
  • Design and integrated 10+ public/private cloud-based architectures that span multi-cloud infrastructure, platforms & cloud native services.
  • Designed, deployed and Implemented Azure Microsoft defender, Prisma (CSPM & CWPP) for 10+ customers, resolving 85% of security vulnerabilities.
  • Architected and deployed GenAI-based chat and summarization systems using AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, RAG & Foundation Models.
  • Proficient and experienced Azure and AWS IAAS, PAAS, SAAS services.
  • System Integrator of Cloud AZURE, AWS ecosystem, Gen AI, ML, Compute, Containers, Databases, Storage, Multi-Cloud, Networking, Security, Serverless.
  • Multiple POCs delivered for microservices applications (AKS, EKS and OpenShift) to technical teams, CX-executives and Leadership teams.
  • Landing Zone design and Implementations through AWS Control Tower.
  • Experienced in assessing existing IAM landscape, infrastructure & applications while identifying gaps and devising strategy for Zero Trust and Defense in depth framework.
  • Engaged as a Technology Advocate for 100+ customer queries around Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Security and DevOps platforms.
  • Implemented and reviewed existing architectures defined in Well architecture frameworks.
  • Delivered 7+ Greenfield deployments in AWS and Azure for compute, containers, databases, storage, networking, security, AI/ML, and serverless services.
  • Reduced cloud costs by 30-40% using Cloud finOps best practices.
Generative AISolution ArchitectureBlockchainTechnology TrendsWeb TechnologiesService-Oriented Architecture (SOA)+50

Accenture

AWS Cloud & DevOps Team Lead - Specialist

Sep 2021 โ€“ Jun 2023 ยท 1 yr 9 mos ยท Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • ๐ˆ๐๐’๐ - ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐๐ฎ๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐œ ๐’๐š๐Ÿ๐ž๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ
  • AWS Marketplace Solution
  • ETL - Data Analytics Platform built on AWS using AWS Cloud Native technologies.
  • Responsible for overall Technology Strategy and Implementation including DevOps, Infrastructure, and Security.
  • Successfully deployed K8 cluster and launched Airflow on AWS EKS platform and integrating with Prometheus, Grafana, AWS RDS with dynamic EFS volume mounting.
  • One Click application deployment from Infrastructure as a code using CloudFormation.
  • Designed & Implemented CI/CD Pipeline on Jenkins integrated with SonarQube.
  • Deployment through Jenkins Pipeline in multiple AWS environments covering pytest & sonar.
  • Troubleshoot on various errors/issues related to OS, utilization, access issues, ports, networking & security.
  • Streamlining & redesigning AWS Infrastructure from security & availability point.
  • Leading a team of 20+ engineers which includes developers, testers & Infra security engineers.
  • Single point of contact for all Infrastructure, DevOps & AWS related solutions, queries & troubleshooting.
  • Experienced in managing Infra Scaling in terms of Horizontal and vertical scaling of micro service architecture on AWS.
  • Remediating Cloud & System Vulnerabilities for compliance & security.
  • Experience of FinOps to save cloud cost.
  • Technical Documentation of Solution & deployment guides for clients.
  • Design Data Workflow architecture of Application & DevOps architecture.
  • Integrating of various services on application dashboard along with performance testing.
  • Frontend & Backend deployments in multiple accounts.
  • Multiple POCs completed as per client requirements.
  • Designed & Proposed Disaster Recovery solution consisting of various AWS Services.
  • ๐“๐ž๐œ๐ก ๐’๐ญ๐š๐œ๐ค: AWS, EKS, Managed Airflow, Glue, OpenSearch, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, Athena, SageMaker for AI/ML, Python, Jenkins, DynamoDB, Cognito, Textract, SonarQube, SQS, VPN, Transfer Family, QuickSight
BlockchainTechnology TrendsWeb TechnologiesService-Oriented Architecture (SOA)OptimizationInfrastructure Technologies+61

Blazeclan technologies

Senior Cloud Engineer

Sep 2019 โ€“ Sep 2021 ยท 2 yrs ยท Pune, Maharashtra

  • Banking Domain Client: Bajaj Housing Finance Limited, India
  • AWS Cloud Solutioning + Services Implementation + Operational Support + System Architect & Administrations
  • Managing entire AWS Infra for Finance Industry Customer having 100+ Servers.
  • (Windows, RHEL, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux) Plan, Design, Implement, Deploy,
  • Monitor in 24X7 production environment.
  • Installed the application on AWS EC2 AMI, Red hat, Ubuntu Instances.
  • Installed Patches on Windows Servers and YUM/RPM packages on Linux Servers.
  • Implementing & Troubleshooting AWS services VPC, EC2, Security Groups, NACL, VPN,IGW, VGW, VPC Peering, IAM roles, IAM Policies, Route53, Direct Connect,
  • CloudWatch, Athena, Trusted Advisor, Security Hub, S3 lifecycle etc.
  • Implemented load balancers (ELB) with Autoscaling and used Route53 with
  • failover and latency options for high availability and fault tolerance.
  • Configuring and Managing Security group for EC2 Window and Linux instances through CloudFormation.
  • RDS: Provision & monitor RDS & Creating and restoring snapshots in multiple accounts.
  • S3: Creating buckets, Permissions, Life Cycle Management.
  • Route53: Create and manage hosted zones, Records, Routing policies.
  • Creating environments using IAAC. (CloudFormation, Terraform)
  • Utilizing Lambda Functions for cost optimization & automation.
  • IAM: Create User, groups, Policies, Roles using secuirty best practices.
  • VPN: Site-to-Site Tunnel Creation through Console & CloudFormation stack along with troubleshooting VPN issues on call with Clients & ISP partners.
  • Implementing - SES, SNS, LEX, 3-Tier Web Architecture.
  • Modifying EBS backed volume storage capacity when the root volume is full
  • using AWS EBS Volume feature.
  • Webservers (Tomcat/nginx): Installation, Configuration, Monitoring and
  • Troubleshooting.
  • Performance Monitoring of Infra & optimizing resources through CloudWatch.
  • Mentoring freshers for L1, L2 level tickets.
BlockchainTechnology TrendsWeb TechnologiesService-Oriented Architecture (SOA)OptimizationInfrastructure Technologies+46

Sungard availability services, india

3 roles

Senior Cloud & Network Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2019 โ€“ Sep 2019 ยท 6 mos

  • Promoted to Sr. Engineer (Mar - 2019)
BlockchainTechnology TrendsWeb TechnologiesService-Oriented Architecture (SOA)OptimizationInfrastructure Technologies+25

Network Engineer

Mar 2017 โ€“ Feb 2019 ยท 1 yr 11 mos

  • Promoted to Engineer - March 2017
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Associate Network Engineer

Oct 2015 โ€“ Feb 2017 ยท 1 yr 4 mos

Web TechnologiesInfrastructure TechnologiesProject PlansStakeholder ManagementCommunication

Appin technology lab

Trainee

Mar 2015 โ€“ Aug 2015 ยท 5 mos ยท Pune Area, India

Communication

Education

Sinhgad Institute of Technology and Science Pune

Bachelor's Degree โ€” Information Technology

Jan 2011 โ€“ Jan 2015

Marathwada Mitra Mandals College of Jnr Science

High School โ€” General Science (IT)

Jan 2009 โ€“ Jan 2011

Lions Convent Higher Secondary School, Sendhwa, ( M.P )

10th CBSE Board

Jan 1996 โ€“ Jan 2009

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