AVAILABLE FOR OPPORTUNITIES · Mangalore, India
Rakshith K V
Automating the cloud, one pipeline at a time. AWS Certified engineer building secure, highly-available cloud infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes, and automated CI/CD across production environments.
Years of Experience
Deployment Time Reduced
Cloud Cost Optimized
Production Uptime
$ kubectl get infrastructure --status
- AWSonline
- Kubernetesonline
- Terraformonline
- CI/CDonline
uptime: 99.9% · region: ap-south-1 · cost: optimized
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About Me
A quick brief before you dig into the timeline and terminal.
AWS Certified Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience designing, automating, and managing secure, highly available cloud infrastructure across AWS and DigitalOcean, with working knowledge of Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Experienced in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep), Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD automation, Linux administration, cloud networking, production monitoring, cloud security, and DevSecOps practices. Proven ability to reduce deployment time by 60%, optimize cloud costs by 25%, and maintain 99.9% production uptime through automation, infrastructure optimization, and proactive monitoring.
Based in
Mangalore, India
Education
2018 – 2021
Focus
AWS · DevOps
Diploma in Computer Science Engineering
Key Achievements
- Reduced infrastructure provisioning time by 60% through Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
- Achieved 99.9% uptime across critical production environments.
- Reduced AWS cloud expenditure by 25% through infrastructure optimization.
- Implemented centralized secrets management using HashiCorp Vault.
- Built fully automated CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment time from hours to minutes.
- Improved cloud infrastructure reliability through automation, monitoring, and security best practices.
// git log --experience
Experience Timeline
Two roles, one company, a steady climb from infrastructure support to cloud ownership.
Cloud Engineer
currentServer Pundits · Mangalore, India
May 2023 – Present
- Designed, deployed, and managed scalable AWS and DigitalOcean cloud infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible, reducing manual provisioning effort by 60%.
- Built reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules to standardize development, staging, and production environments.
- Designed and managed Kubernetes (Amazon EKS and self-managed clusters) hosting containerized production workloads using Docker and Helm.
- Configured NGINX reverse proxy and load balancing to improve application performance, scalability, and availability.
- Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins, automating build, testing, and deployment for more than 10 production applications.
- Implemented HashiCorp Vault for centralized secrets management, eliminating hardcoded credentials and improving organizational security.
- Configured secure site-to-site VPN connectivity using strongSwan and Cloudflared between on-premises infrastructure and AWS cloud environments.
- Administered PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB production databases, including backup automation, replication, disaster recovery planning, and performance tuning.
- Implemented AWS IAM policies, security groups, VPC networking, firewall rules, and least-privilege access controls to strengthen cloud security.
- Configured proactive monitoring, alerting, and observability using Amazon CloudWatch, New Relic, and Zabbix, maintaining 99.9% production uptime.
- Optimized AWS cloud infrastructure using Reserved Instances, Auto Scaling strategies, and right-sizing techniques, reducing monthly cloud expenditure by approximately 25%.
- Collaborated closely with development, QA, and infrastructure teams to improve deployment reliability, application performance, and release efficiency.
System Administrator
Server Pundits · Mangalore, India
May 2022 – May 2023
- Installed, configured, and administered Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS) and Windows Server environments supporting more than 30 production servers.
- Managed Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, IIS, and Group Policy administration across enterprise environments.
- Performed operating system patching, server hardening, vulnerability remediation, and routine maintenance activities.
- Diagnosed and resolved Linux, Windows, networking, firewall, and routing issues, reducing Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR) by 40%.
- Managed user accounts, permissions, access policies, and authentication while ensuring compliance with organizational security standards.
- Developed infrastructure documentation, SOPs, and operational runbooks that improved onboarding efficiency and knowledge sharing.
// kubectl get skills -A
Skills Dashboard
Every namespace running healthy — cloud, containers, IaC, security, and networking.
Cloud Platforms
AWS Services
IaC & Automation
Containers & Orchestration
CI/CD & DevOps
Monitoring & Logging
Scripting
Databases
Security
Networking
Operating Systems
Collaboration Tools
// watch --interval=1 pipeline-status
DevOps in Motion
A live look at the day-to-day toolchain: rolling Kubernetes deployments, Terraform applies, Docker builds, and Helm releases.
$ kubectl get pods -n production
// ls -la ./projects
Project Showcase
Infrastructure work that shipped measurable results in production.
AWS Infrastructure Automation
-60% deployment timeReusable Terraform modules that provision full AWS environments on demand.
- Built reusable Terraform modules for provisioning AWS infrastructure (EC2, VPC, IAM, Security Groups, Load Balancers, RDS).
- Reduced infrastructure deployment time by 60%.
Kubernetes Production Platform
99.9% uptimeProduction-grade Kubernetes clusters running containerized workloads with high availability.
- Managed production Kubernetes clusters using Docker and Helm.
- Configured ingress, load balancing, rolling deployments, and high availability — achieving 99.9% uptime.
CI/CD Automation
Hours → minutesEnd-to-end delivery pipelines that turned multi-hour releases into minutes.
- Designed end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
- Automated application build, testing, and deployment — reducing release cycles from hours to minutes.
Cloud Cost Optimization
-25% monthly spendSystematic right-sizing and capacity planning across production AWS accounts.
- Optimized AWS infrastructure through Reserved Instances, Auto Scaling, and resource right-sizing.
- Reduced monthly AWS expenditure by approximately 25%.
// aws sts get-caller-identity
Certifications
Verified credentials backing the hands-on experience.
Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
Microsoft
// ssh guest@rakshithkv
Interactive Terminal
A real shell wired to this resume — type a command, or tap one below.
// curl -X POST /contact
Get In Touch
Open to Cloud & DevOps roles, freelance infrastructure work, and interesting problems.