Austin, TX · AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate · MS Computer Science, Indiana University Bloomington
2 years of production NOC operations supporting Tier-1 carrier infrastructure
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I build and validate AWS infrastructure around deployment control, measurable reliability, access boundaries, and cost-aware lifecycle management. That approach comes from two years of SLA-driven production NOC operations at Tata Communications, where incident prioritization, restoration commitments, and customer communication were daily responsibilities.
Two operating principles shape the work in these repositories:
Measure what users experience. Reliability indicators are scoped to user-facing routes and exclude health, metrics, and load-generation traffic.
State what the evidence does not prove. Controlled validation runs publish their limitations alongside their results rather than presenting short tests as production-scale evidence.
Focus: Terraform-provisioned AWS foundations · Kubernetes delivery on EKS with Helm and Argo CD · Python automation · Prometheus and CloudWatch observability · incident response · failure and rollback validation
EKS Reliability Platform cloudops-sre-platform
An EKS reliability-operations platform for service health, deployment history, incident timelines, MTTR, and request-based SLIs, modeled after workflows used in production support.
- Provisioned a 59-resource AWS foundation with Terraform, including a three-tier VPC, managed EKS, RDS PostgreSQL, ECR, Secrets Manager, IRSA, ALB ingress, and CloudWatch monitoring
- Implemented 6 Prometheus recording rules and multi-window burn-rate alerts against a 99.9% SLO; verified behavior through 5 promtool cases and 12 assertions
- Load-tested the Python/FastAPI backend with k6: HPA scaled 2 → 6 replicas across 18,819 requests with zero failed requests or pod restarts, then returned to baseline
- Published SHA-256-attested validation evidence and verified teardown across 14 service checks, explicitly recording one inconclusive tagging check rather than reporting it as passed
Tech: AWS · EKS · Terraform · Helm · Python/FastAPI · Prometheus · RDS PostgreSQL · ECR · IRSA · ALB · CloudWatch · k6 · GitHub Actions · Checkov · kubeconform
Evidence: Repository · Validation Run · SLI Rules · Burn-Rate Runbook · Architecture
GitOps Delivery Platform cloudops-gitops-platform
An EKS delivery platform that keeps Git as the source of truth for promotion, drift correction, and rollback.
- Composed the AWS foundation as 15 reusable Terraform modules for VPC, EKS, ECR, and IAM, with a $25 monthly AWS Budget guardrail for the validation environment
- Reconciled 4 Argo CD Applications across dev, staging, prod, and observability namespaces with scoped RBAC, ResourceQuotas, and Network Policies
- Secured promotion through a four-gate GitHub Actions workflow that validates Git and ECR provenance, authenticates through branch-scoped OIDC without stored AWS credentials, and delivers changes through pull requests
- Validated drift self-healing and Git-revert recovery after an injected readiness failure on a live EKS cluster
Tech: AWS · EKS · Argo CD · Terraform · Helm · GitHub Actions · OIDC · ECR · Docker · Prometheus · Grafana · AWS Budgets · Kubernetes RBAC
Evidence: Repository · AWS Validation · Promotion Workflow · Rollback Demo · Drift Detection
Serverless Uptime Monitor cloudops-uptime-monitor — live
A deployed Python/Lambda availability monitor with scheduled checks, state history, state-change alerting, and a CloudFront-hosted dashboard.
- Deployed a 53-resource serverless stack with Lambda, EventBridge, DynamoDB, API Gateway, SNS/SQS, S3, CloudFront, KMS, CloudWatch, X-Ray, and Terraform
- Modeled a latest-status access pattern that reads 10 current rows instead of scanning 86,400 retained records in the reference workload, holding dashboard-read cost constant as history grows
- Hardened target handling against SSRF and redirect-based time-of-check/time-of-use bypasses; added API throttling, KMS encryption, dead-letter queues, and point-in-time recovery
- Published 9 application-level CloudWatch metrics and validated stateful alerting through an outage drill with 1-second detection, 26-second dashboard visibility, and zero duplicate DOWN alerts
Tech: AWS · Python · Lambda · DynamoDB · API Gateway · EventBridge · SNS/SQS · S3 · CloudFront · KMS · X-Ray · CloudWatch · Terraform · GitHub Actions · Bandit · Checkov
Evidence: Live Dashboard · Repository · Failure Drill · Design Tradeoffs · Security Notes
An event-driven incident-response workflow in which CloudWatch and SNS invoke a Python Lambda that assigns deterministic severity, generates remediation-focused summaries through Bedrock, and falls back to structured notifications when model output is unavailable. Terraform provisions the workflow; GitHub Actions runs Python unit tests, Bandit, Checkov, and IaC validation.
| Area | Tools |
|---|---|
| AWS | EC2, VPC, EKS, ECR, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, KMS, Secrets Manager, IAM, ALB, NAT Gateway, CloudWatch, X-Ray, Budgets |
| IaC & Delivery | Terraform modules and lifecycle, Helm, Kubernetes, Docker, Argo CD, GitOps, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, AWS CLI, Checkov, kubeconform |
| Security & Access | IAM roles and policies, IRSA, OIDC federation, RBAC, Pod Security, Network Policies, KMS encryption, secrets management, SSRF input validation |
| Observability | Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch Logs/Alarms/Dashboards, recording rules, SLIs/SLOs, burn-rate alerting, HPA, X-Ray, k6 |
| Systems & Networking | Linux, TCP/IP, HTTP/S, DNS, BGP, MPLS, DWDM, subnetting, routing, load balancing, firewalls |
| Languages & Data | Python, Bash, SQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, FastAPI, Git |
July 2022 – July 2024 · Pune, India
- Led five-engineer shifts in a 24/7 carrier NOC, coordinating triage for 40+ daily incidents across 25–30 Tier-1 clients and prioritizing concurrent P1/P2 outages against 99.9% availability and four-hour restoration commitments
- Diagnosed BGP/MPLS routing failures, TCP/IP faults, DWDM impairments, and hardware failures across Juniper, Huawei, Ciena, and Alcatel infrastructure
- Directed incident restoration through ServiceNow, coordinating vendor TAC escalation, field dispatch, customer-premises testing, and client communication
- Produced post-incident RCAs and cross-shift handoffs that preserved diagnostic context and supported recurrence prevention; earned a Certificate of Excellence for resolving an escalated customer incident
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate — Amazon Web Services, July 2026
- MS, Computer Science — Indiana University Bloomington, May 2026
- B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering — SRM Institute of Science and Technology, 2022
