Teikametrics — Senior DevOps Engineer (Remote)

Nov 2022 – Present

DATABASE ENGINEERING

• Led migration POC from RDS to Aurora PostgreSQL, designing parallel infra to benchmark cost and performance
• Engineered Aurora cluster topologies including provisioned and serverless writers/readers
• Implemented blue-green deployments for database downsizing ensuring zero downtime
• Tuned PostgreSQL parameters and implemented RDS Proxy to fix high concurrency issues
• Led major PostgreSQL version upgrades and resolved Flyway compatibility issues

CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE & NETWORKING

• Architected staging OpenVPN infra and managed lifecycle including security patching
• Resolved intermittent VPN connectivity issues for secure access to private subnets
• Migrated traffic from Convox LB to centralized Nginx Ingress
• Implemented VPC peering, Route53 DNS, DMARC/DKIM, and security groups
• Implemented Terraform-based rate limiting on ingress

KUBERNETES & GITOPS

• Upgraded EKS clusters from v1.24 to v1.33 ensuring addon compatibility
• Implemented HA for ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, and Cluster Autoscaler
• Optimized Argo Workflows reliability and safely decommissioned legacy clusters

DATA ENGINEERING & STREAMING

• Migrated Databricks infra to Terraform with full state management
• Implemented service principals and Unity Catalog credentials
• Managed Kafka ecosystem including retention tuning and ACL governance
• Built Kafka lag monitoring in Datadog

CI/CD & DEVOPS TOOLING

• Built secure CI tunnels for integration tests to access private infra
• Fixed Java OOM pipeline failures via resource optimization
• Built Python CLIs tm-ctl and tf_bootstrap to standardize Terraform bootstrapping
• Enhanced TerraformCD tooling with safety controls and drift detection

CACHING & RELIABILITY

• Led Redis to Valkey migration with zero data loss
• Scaled Elasticache clusters for Prime Day traffic and tuned eviction policies

FINOPS & COST OPTIMIZATION

• Migrated RDS fleets to Graviton and GP3 for cost-performance gains
• Implemented aggressive S3 lifecycle rules to reduce storage costs
• Investigated AWS budget overruns and removed unused resources

OBSERVABILITY & INCIDENT RESPONSE

• Implemented Datadog monitoring for RDS, Kafka lag, and services
• Managed OpenSearch upgrades and Vector log pipelines
• Integrated alerts with Squadcast and PagerDuty for Sev1 automation

SECURITY & ACCESS MANAGEMENT

• Migrated secrets to AWS SSM Parameter Store
• Led emergency credential rotations for OpenSearch and Aiven
• Re-architected IAM and Databricks permissions with least-privilege model

Infosys — Specialist Programmer, DevOps Lead (Bengaluru)

Jun 2020 – Nov 2022

DEVOPS & CI/CD

• Developed CI/CD pipeline using GitLab CI for payment solutions
• Established DevOps processes and conducted team awareness programs
• Managed and coordinated with a team of 4 engineers, increasing team performance by 50%
• Spearheaded client delivery scripts and implementation support with Ansible and Bash

SECURITY & COMPLIANCE

• Devised licensing code and integrated it to internal license provider
• Supervised FOSS scan for licensing checks; developed component for automated FOSS scan on GitLab CI
• Enhanced efficiency by 250% with customized FOSS scan integration artifact with Black Duck
• Integrated Seeker Scan in K8s to do dynamic code scan (Interactive App Security Scan - IAST)
• Applied Security Vulnerability fixes in code to the process

KUBERNETES & INFRASTRUCTURE

• Organized infrastructure components like Redis, RabbitMQ, InfluxDB as well as Grafana on VM and as pods on K8s
• Utilized multiple environments for Kubernetes/Istio, DevOps and Test activities on On-Premise, AWS and GCP environment
• Created Bash/Linux utility to reset, refresh k8s area and image tagging utility to tag stable, latest build of apps
• Implemented Login-Logout Architecture design, and associated with JWT, OAuth 2.0
• Used Grafana SSO integration with in-house IDP and applied Grafana startup configuration and deployment

PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION

• Performed System Performance Testing with JMeter, Oracle/PG db, Redis and Redis Sentinel
• Maximized app performance using tools like JMeter, Grafana & Flame-Graph to achieve 3x TPS increase

Infosys — System Engineer Specialist, Java Spring-Boot Developer (Bengaluru)

May 2019 – Jun 2020

• Created Spring Boot app to implement business logic using Kafka and Postgres DB
• Independently developed Kafka POC in initial phase of project to implement Kafka library
• Implemented logging and log masking
• Proficiently developed Apigee integrations
• Developed Authorization Architecture with Open Policy Agent and Kubernetes
• Participated in internal hackathon

B.Tech in Computer Science

2015 – 2019