Paras Thakur

Cloud Engineer

Pune, Maharashtra, India10 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in AWS and GCP cloud infrastructure.
Certified Kubernetes Administrator with hands-on experience.
Proven track record in optimizing highly available systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer specializing in AWS and GCP solutions.

Contact

parast75@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Google Cloud Platform (gcp)AwsSystems Administration

Other Skills

TerraformElastic Load BalancingAmazon S3cLinuxAmazon EKSAWS Auto ScalingAWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM)Amazon EBSAmazon EC2SREAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS)DockerAWS CloudFormationKubernetes

About

To collaborate, please email: parast75@gmail.com Experienced Cloud Engineer specializing in AWS and GCP cloud infrastructure (EC2, EBS, Compute Engine). Skilled in Kubernetes orchestration across both platforms and actively expanding knowledge of Terraform for infrastructure automation. Proven track record in building, maintaining, and optimizing highly available systems. Passionate about continuous improvement and delivering exceptional user experiences. Skills: Anthos | GKE | IAM | Kubernetes | GCP | Docker | Linux | EC2 | EBS | Autoscaling | Load Balancer | Route 53 | Virtualization | Lightsail | Systems Manager | Compute Engine Certification achieved 1) Certified Kubernetes Administrator 2) AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate 3) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate 4) GCP Certified Associate Cloud Engineer 5) GCP Certified Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Experience

10 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Google

3 roles

Technical Solutions Engineer III

Nov 2025 – Present · 5 mos · Pune District, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

Technical Solutions Engineer

Jun 2025 – Nov 2025 · 5 mos · Pune District, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

Technical Solutions Specialist

Jun 2022 – May 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Pune District, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

Serve as a trusted technical advisor to enterprise customers, providing expert guidance on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) solutions and best practices for building reliable, scalable systems.
Collaborate closely with Google Cloud engineers and product teams to troubleshoot complex customer issues and drive product improvements.
Author technical documentation and whitepapers on GCP solutions and best practices, contributing to the broader technical community.
Build strong relationships with key stakeholders across customer organizations, establishing trust and credibility as a technical expert.
Consistently exceed customer satisfaction targets, driving adoption of Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Terraform

Youtube

Content Creator

Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

Amazon web services (aws)

Cloud Support Engineer (Linux)

Dec 2019 – Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Provide support to worldwide customer via chat, call and email in solving their issues related to AWS services meeting their expectations along with highest level of customer satisfaction.
This troubleshooting includes analyzing, fixing issues related to Linux performance issues, networking issues application issues combined with various AWS services like EC2 Linux, Lightsail, EBS, EFS, SSM, VM I/E etc
Handling Escalations and High priority cases for fast resolution where multiple teams needs to be involved.
Helping customer in designing/migrating fault tolerant, scalable infrastructure on cloud.
Working closely with Technical Account Managers for customer solutions for collecting
customer feedbacks about the products and feature request working / following with service
Helping customers with and best practices to meet the goal of AWS well Architecture framework.
Mentoring the team members for handling complex cases in order to demonstrate deep-dive
and deliver results.

Elastic Load BalancingAmazon S3AWS

Dev information technology limited

Systems Administrator

Jun 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Perform day-to-day Technical Support- Analyzing, Troubleshooting and Resolving Technical Problems related to Dedicated Servers, VMs and Firewall Devices
Technical support assistance to clients remotely through RightNow (Oracle) Ticket System.
Monitoring Critical Servers through ScienceLogic Application.
Patching failure issues of Linux server.
Monitoring, Manage & Troubleshoot the issues of Firewalls (Cisco, Juniper).
Analyzing Backup issues on R1Soft and Commvault.
Managing the Environment through vCenter(VmWare).
Manage & Troubleshoot the issues of SSL, VPN, Webserver etc.

cLinuxSystems Administration

Everdata

Linux Systems Administrator

Jun 2015 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Jaipur Area, India

Perform day-to-day Technical Support- Analyzing, Troubleshooting and Resolving Technical Problems related to Servers.
Technical support assistance to clients through Kayako Ticket Systems.
Experience of working with Parallel Plesk Panel, WHM Panel, Centos Web Panel.
MySQL database/user creation, dump/restoration.
Perform Server Backups and Restores.
Scheduling jobs using CRONTAB.
Configuration and managing the syslog server.
Monitoring the servers using Cacti.
HA Proxy Installation and Configuration.
Experience of working with Servers: FTP, Web Server, Mail Servers.