Open to relocation worldwide with visa sponsorship, or fully remoteNotice period: 90 days (negotiable)
Professional Summary
Senior DevOps / Platform / SRE engineer with 3+ years operating production infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and on-prem Kubernetes — including building an on-prem Kubernetes data center from bare metal at 99.9% uptime for 1000+ customers. Promoted intern → DevOps Lead in under two years; now lead a team of 5 under an ISO 27001:2022-certified practice. Founder of two live AI SaaS products (PrepAtlas, HumanifyCV) with paying users. Strong on Terraform, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, GitOps, and FinOps.
Professional Experience
Snovasys Software Solutions Ltd · London-based enterprise SaaS client · Remote
- Led enterprise migration to GitHub Enterprise with label-driven GitOps workflows — reduced release errors ~70%.
- Engineered PR-based ephemeral environments provisioning full AWS stacks (ECS, RDS, S3, SQS, SNS) via Terraform — cut setup time from days to minutes.
- Architected multi-region AWS deployment with Route 53 latency routing and active-active failover for global availability.
- Built DevSecOps guardrails with Trivy + Grype shift-left container scanning across 200+ CI/CD pipelines.
- Established observability and ChatOps (CloudWatch, Athena, Grafana, MS Teams) — reduced incident MTTR significantly.
- Integrated ServiceNow REST APIs to automate change-management — CRs open/close in lockstep with deployments, eliminating manual ticket toil.
Snovasys Software Solutions Ltd · Hyderabad, India · Hybrid
- Promoted to Lead Oct 2024; running concurrently with the AICPA engagement.
- Operate production on-prem Kubernetes cluster at 99.9% uptime — ~15 nodes, 100+ containers on Hyper-V at CtrlS Hyderabad data center.
- Lead a team of 5 DevOps engineers; own architecture decisions, sprint planning, and on-call rotation.
- Manage hybrid cloud workloads across AWS + Azure (AKS, VMSS, Blob Storage, Functions, Entra ID, Key Vault) with optimized backup and DR for SQL Server + PostgreSQL.
- Drove ~25% monthly cloud cost reduction through FinOps — right-sizing, Reserved Instances / Savings Plans, biweekly cost reviews, and weekend scale-to-zero automation that idles all non-prod every Friday and restores it Monday.
- Built an internal AI platform on the on-prem cluster — self-hosted open LLMs (Ollama: DeepSeek, Qwen), grounded RAG on pgvector, and an AI-in-SDLC auto-remediation pipeline (detect → diagnose → generate fix → PR → gated QA) that cut MTTR.
- Designed corporate network: dual-ISP + SD-WAN on FortiGate 60F (active-active failover) — 99.9% office network uptime.
Snovasys Software Solutions Ltd · Hyderabad, India · On-site
- Built production on-prem data center at CtrlS Hyderabad from bare metal — racked Dell PowerEdge servers, designed VLAN segmentation, configured FortiGate 200F with IPSec VPN and dual-ISP failover.
- Led platform transformation from monolithic IIS to Docker + Kubernetes — cut release cycle time ~60% with zero-downtime deployments.
- Implemented Cloudflare edge security (WAF, CDN, DNS, SSL/TLS) for production workloads.
- Migrated legacy CI/CD (TeamCity, Octopus Deploy) to Azure DevOps — 200+ pipelines across product lines.
- Built DR Validator — automated MS SQL backup + DR verification in C# / .NET with AWS S3 and PowerShell — eliminated silent backup failures.
- Deployed centralized observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) for logging, metrics, and alerting across the cluster.
Snovasys Software Solutions Ltd · Hyderabad, India · On-site
- Built REST APIs in C# / .NET for internal product features.
- Built HTML/CSS landing pages for product launches.
- Rotated through support engineering; selected for full-time conversion to DevOps Engineer based on infrastructure work during the rotation.
Products & Side Projects
AI-grounded exam prep platform for Indian students. Built end-to-end on Next.js 15 + Supabase + pgvector + Anthropic Claude. Hosted on a $35/month AWS stack with Bubblewrap-wrapped Android TWA. 20+ paying users in beta. Engineering writeup at prepatlas.in/engineering.
AI text humanization + resume optimization SaaS. Production-grade auth (NextAuth v5 with email verification, TOTP 2FA backed by AES-256-GCM-encrypted secrets, WebAuthn passkeys), Razorpay payments with discriminated-union typed event handling, Anthropic Claude Sonnet, AWS SES transactional email, Sentry, 31 Jest/Testing-Library tests. Hosted on AWS ECS. 30–40 paying users.
Technical Skills
- Cloud (AWS & Azure): AWS (ECS, RDS, Lambda, S3, Route 53, IAM, multi-region), Azure (AKS, VMs / VMSS, Blob Storage, Functions), Entra ID + Key Vault, Azure OpenAI + Azure Speech, On-prem (Hyper-V, bare-metal Kubernetes), GCP (fundamentals)
- Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes (production, on-prem + cloud), Docker, Helm, ArgoCD, Horizontal Pod Autoscaling, Ingress
- IaC: Terraform, AWS CDK, Ansible
- CI/CD & GitOps: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD, OPA (policy-as-code)
- AI Infrastructure: Ollama (self-hosted LLMs), DeepSeek / Qwen, RAG on pgvector, Anthropic Claude API, AI-in-SDLC auto-remediation
- Web & Caching: Nginx, Redis, AWS API Gateway, CloudFront
- Networking & Security: Linux, Cisco switches, FortiGate (firewall, VPN, SD-WAN), VLAN segmentation, Cloudflare WAF, OIDC / IAM, TLS, Trivy / Grype
- Databases: PostgreSQL, Supabase, MS SQL Server, MySQL, AWS RDS
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Sentry, Loki, OpenSearch, ELK
- Languages: TypeScript, Python, C# (.NET), Bash, PowerShell, SQL
Education
B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering
PBR Visvodaya Institute of Technology and Science, Andhra Pradesh, India
2019 – 2023 | CGPA: 8.3 / 10
Languages
English — C1 (Advanced Professional) · Telugu — Native · Hindi — Fluent
References
References available on request.