Oct 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos · Berlin, Germany · Hybrid

• Designed and implemented a fault-tolerant container platform with a multi-EKS cluster architecture to ensure high availability and resilience, supporting multiple geographical locations, millions of customers, and over 1,000 applications by eliminating single points of failure.
• Automated infrastructure deployment using GitOps principles with GitHub Actions, Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm, ArgoCD , and Vault for EKS cluster creation and standardization, achieving production-ready clusters in approximately 90 minutes .

Aug 2021 – Aug 2023 · 2 yrs · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Build Kubernetes cluster on AWS using EKS, Istio, Helm, ELK and Prometheus - Grafana .
• Reduced more than 50% infrastructure cost by using spot instances for EKS cluster and running without any interruption.
• Integrated security tools like Cloudflare, and Pingsafe into cloud architecture solutions to prevent breaches and bugging.
• Maintained metrics visibility using ELK , NewRelic and Prometheus/Grafana to create useful dashboards and monitors.
• Automated ML models deployment lifecycle which helped dev team to deploy seamlessly across all the environments.
• Enabled GPU nodes for better performance and created dashboards for tracking GPU utilization for all ML services.
• Setup Kubernetes event-driven autoscaling (KEDA) to scale the application based on custom events during peak loads.
• Setup Apache Nifi and Apache Flink on Kubernetes for better flexibility and control and a more cost-effective solution for Data Engineering team.
• Hands-on experience in backup, recovery and maintenance of multiple databases like Aerospike, Click-House, MongoDB and PostgreSQL.
• Improved CIS AWS Foundation Benchmark v1.2.0 to 97% by implementing security best practices for AWS.
• Actively monitored Cost Utilization of cloud infrastructure across multiple organization units using open-source Kubecost tool and setting up AWS tagging across all the resources.
• Used AWS Systems Manager for System Builds, Server Builds, upgrades Patches of servers.
• Led team of 5 people and mentored them by sharing skills and expertise, encouraged each member to bring forward their ideas
• and suggestions for improvement.

Jul 2019 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka

• Set up highly available CI/CD pipeline across prod and non-prod environments using Ansible/Jenkins .
• Managing and maintaining AWS Cloud Infrastructure .
• Responsible for release management and product deployment .
• Created CI/CD Jenkins multi-branch pipeline using shared Libraries for Java, NodeJS and Golang Applications for ECS and EKS Deployments with helm charts.
• Used Terraform to automate AWS Infra Provisioning.
• Integrated the system with security scan tools like Git-leaks and Owasp .
• Worked with various features of the Version Control System ( Bitbucket & GitHub).
• Setting and Managing Artifact Repository using Nexus for Node, Python, Golang applications. Storing, and managing private dependencies for faster build times.
• Configuration management through Ansible roles and playbook .
• Involved in design and development of a multitude of cloud services on AWS stack such as EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, Route53, VPC, ELB, RedShift, ECS, ECR, EKS, SQS, SNS, CloudFront, lambda, WAF while focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance and auto-scaling .
• Integrated AWS Secrets Manager with ECS and EKS in our applications to protect sensitive data.
• Worked on various Monitoring tools ( Prometheus with Grafana, Datadog and Newrelic ).
• Worked with SumoLogic for easily searching, analyzing and visualizing logs generated from any source.
• Worked on tools like Spotinst for cost optimization and slashed the usage cost by 35% in AWS.

Aug 2015 – Jul 2019 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Responsible for handling deployment of applications in AWS and in Verizon Cloud and automated the same using Chef, Ansible.
• Set up complete CI/CD Pipeline with tool stack comprising of Git, Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus and CodeDeploy .
• Configured VPC, Subnets, NAT Gateway, Route Table, ACL, Security Groups, IAM Roles & Policies, Load Balancer, Autoscaling Group, Route53 and migrated the applications from Verizon Cloud to AWS Cloud Infrastructure using Terraform .
• Built and deployed Docker Containers to break up Monolithic App into Microservices , improving developer workflow and increasing scalability and optimizing speed.
• Developed Bash and Python Scripts to automate tedious manual process, increase system efficiency and performance time.
• Took initiative to document the CI/ CD Pipeline and provided KT to the Developers and QA Engineers within the team.