GOKUL A.P — DevOps Engineer

I am a DevOps & Security Engineer passionate about automation, cloud security, and ethical hacking. With hands-on experience in Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and infrastructure security, I focus on building secure, scalable systems while automating workflows and improving reliability. Currently, I work as a DevOps Engineer at Moveworks (a ServiceNow company), where I focus on improving infrastructure security, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and strengthening cloud-native systems. Previously, I worked as an SRE at ShopUp, where I implemented security controls, enhanced operational efficiency, and improved infrastructure reliability. My work combines DevOps engineering with security research, allowing me to design systems that are both scalable and secure. 🔧 Core Expertise Cloud & DevOps • Kubernetes, Docker, Helm • CI/CD Pipelines & Infrastructure Automation • Git, Terraform, Cloud Infrastructure Security & DevSecOps • Vulnerability Assessments & Penetration Testing • Infrastructure Hardening & Cloud Security • Bug Bounty Research Automation & Development • Python Automation • Bash Scripting • Security & Infrastructure Tooling 🏆 Achievements • Google Hall of Fame – Recognized for responsibly reporting a critical security vulnerability • Bug Bounty – Earned ₹20 Lakhs+ in rewards through responsible disclosure • Built Reconator – an automated reconnaissance platform for security researchers • Implemented secure DevOps practices and infrastructure improvements at ShopUp I enjoy solving complex infrastructure and security challenges, building automation tools, and improving system reliability. 📩 Feel free to connect if you'd like to discuss DevOps, security, or automation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Security and DevOps specialist with a focus on automation and infrastructure reliability.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 2 yrs 11 mos

Skills

Cloud & Devops
Infrastructure Security
Ci/cd Pipelines
Security & Devsecops
Infrastructure Reliability

Career Highlights

Google Hall of Fame for reporting critical security vulnerability
Earned ₹20 Lakhs+ in bug bounty rewards
Built an automated reconnaissance platform for security researchers

Work Experience

Moveworks

Senior Software Engineer, DevOps (2 mos)

Software Engineer, DevOps (1 yr 7 mos)

DevOps CTF

Founder (3 mos)

ShopUp

Site Reliability Engineer 1 (1 yr 2 mos)

Site Reliability Engineer Intern (6 mos)

HackerOne

Security Researcher (2 yrs 5 mos)

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Thiagarajar College of Engineering

at VHN Higher Secondary School

at Maruthu Rukmani Matriculation School - India

GOKUL A.P

DevOps Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India2 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Google Hall of Fame for reporting critical security vulnerability
Earned ₹20 Lakhs+ in bug bounty rewards
Built an automated reconnaissance platform for security researchers

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Security and DevOps specialist with a focus on automation and infrastructure reliability.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud & DevopsInfrastructure SecurityCi/cd PipelinesSecurity & DevsecopsInfrastructure Reliability

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)KubecostArgoWorkflowsGitHubKubernetesGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Continuous Integration (CI)ArgoCDCloud CustodianAutomationDevSecOpsdockerAPI GatewaysGoogle BigQueryPub/Sub

About

Experience

2 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 5 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 9 mos

Current Experience

Moveworks

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer, DevOps

Promoted

Mar 2026 – Present · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

➤ Led Kubernetes resource rightsizing across production and gov environments, optimizing CPU and memory allocations using Kubecost insights to improve infrastructure efficiency.
➤ Implemented automated utilization monitoring workflows that alert service owners when resource utilization drops below thresholds, enabling proactive infrastructure optimization.
➤ Designed Grafana dashboards to identify underutilized and overutilized workloads, enabling data-driven capacity planning across hundreds of services.
➤ Introduced highly available instance families for Spot node groups across non-production clusters to reduce Spot interruptions and improve workload stability.
➤ Built internal workflows and dashboards to track Kubernetes pod startup latency and cluster performance metrics for faster debugging and platform visibility.
➤ Improved CI validation pipelines for Kubernetes manifests and ArgoCD applications, ensuring deployment safety and preventing misconfigurations.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)KubecostCloud & DevOpsInfrastructure Security

Software Engineer, DevOps

Aug 2024 – Mar 2026 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

➤ Built and maintained deployment automation using Argo Workflows by developing reusable workflow utilities, input validation modules, and CI dry-run checks for Kubernetes manifests, improving deployment reliability across multi-region and multi-environment clusters.
➤ Led a large-scale AWS RDS PostgreSQL upgrade from version 12 to 16 across ~480 database instances spanning 5 regions and 11 environments.
➤ Built end-to-end deployment dry-run pipelines integrated with CI to validate workflow templates and deployment manifests before production releases.
➤ Migrated infrastructure workflows and automation from Jenkins to Argo Workflows, standardizing deployment pipelines and improving maintainability.
➤ Led Kubernetes manifest restructuring and large-scale migration from Kustomize to Helm charts across multiple infrastructure and platform services.
➤ Implemented automated cloud governance policies using Cloud Custodian with Slack alerts to clean up unused AMIs, EBS volumes, and other cloud resources.
➤ Built internal automation scripts and workflows for infrastructure operations such as service scaling, Kafka connector restarts, and ArgoCD resource management.
➤ Designed infrastructure utilities for deployment validation, workflow input sanitization, and environment configuration management to prevent CI/CD failures.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)ArgoWorkflowsCloud & DevOpsCI/CD Pipelines

Devops ctf

Founder

Feb 2026 – Present · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Built a Hands-on DevOps CTF Platform with real-time production issues and challenges to improve debugging skills

GitHubKubernetesCloud & DevOps

Shopup

2 roles

Site Reliability Engineer 1

Jun 2023 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

➤ Strengthened Kubernetes security by migrating all application pods to run as non-root users, improving cluster security posture and enforcing best practices.
➤ Implemented GCP Workload Identity authentication for Kubernetes workloads and GitHub Actions, eliminating service account keys and enabling secure keyless access.
➤ Built automated vulnerability scanning pipelines using Trivy for Docker images and developed scripts to auto-generate pull requests for remediation.
➤ Designed CI/CD pipelines using Helm charts to automate application deployments across Kubernetes clusters.
➤ Deployed and managed multiple open-source platform tools including SonarQube, OpenMetadata, and Apache Flink.
➤ Conducted vulnerability assessments and security testing on internal systems to identify and mitigate potential attack surfaces.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Continuous Integration (CI)Security & DevSecOpsInfrastructure Reliability

Site Reliability Engineer Intern

Dec 2022 – Jun 2023 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

➤ Implemented centralized infrastructure access management using Teleport for Kubernetes, MySQL, and PostgreSQL with GitHub Teams integration.
➤ Automated security testing pipelines including URL fuzzing to continuously identify vulnerabilities in web applications.
➤ Improved internal API security by strengthening CORS configurations and HTTP security headers.
➤ Assisted in vulnerability remediation for issues identified through internal and third-party security assessments.
➤ Contributed to infrastructure automation scripts and operational tooling used by the SRE team

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)KubernetesSecurity & DevSecOps