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Rahul
Mehta
Senior
DevOps
Engineer
Building
resilient
,
scalable
cloud
infrastructure
and
automating
everything
that
moves
.
rahul
.
mehta
@
email
.
com
+1 (415) 867-5309
San
Francisco
,
CA
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PROFESSIONAL
SUMMARY
Senior
DevOps
Engineer
with
8+
years
of
experience
designing
,
implementing
,
and
managing
cloud
-
native
infrastructure
across
AWS
,
GCP
,
and
Azure
.
Expert
in
Kubernetes
orchestration
,
CI
/
CD
pipeline
automation
,
infrastructure
-
as
-
code
(
Terraform
,
Pulumi
),
and
observability
at
scale
.
Led
migration
of
monolith
to
microservices
architecture
serving
50
M
+
daily
requests
.
Passionate
about
reducing
toil
through
automation
and
building
self
-
healing
systems
.
CORE
COMPETENCIES
CLOUD
&
INFRASTRUCTURE
AWS
(
EC
2,
EKS
,
RDS
,
Lambda
,
CloudFront
,
IAM
),
GCP
(
GKE
,
Cloud
Run
,
BigQuery
),
Azure
(
AKS
,
DevOps
),
Terraform
,
Pulumi
,
CloudFormation
CONTAINER
&
ORCHESTRATION
Kubernetes
,
Docker
,
Helm
,
Istio
,
Linkerd
,
ArgoCD
,
Kustomize
,
containerd
CI
/
CD
&
AUTOMATION
GitHub
Actions
,
GitLab
CI
,
Jenkins
,
CircleCI
,
Spinnaker
,
Argo
Workflows
,
Ansible
,
Packer
OBSERVABILITY
&
MONITORING
Prometheus
,
Grafana
,
OpenTelemetry
,
Datadog
,
New
Relic
,
ELK
Stack
,
Loki
,
Tempo
,
PagerDuty
SCRIPTING
&
LANGUAGES
Python
,
Go
,
Bash
,
TypeScript
(
CDK
),
HCL
,
YAML
/
JSON
,
Ruby
(
Chef
)
SECURITY
&
COMPLIANCE
HashiCorp
Vault
,
SOPS
,
OPA
/
Gatekeeper
,
Falco
,
Trivy
,
SonarQube
,
PCI
-
DSS
,
SOC
2
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Driftwood
Analytics
Jan
2022 –
Present
Senior
DevOps
Engineer
San
Francisco
,
CA
(
Remote
)
Architected
and
manages
multi
-
cluster
Kubernetes
infrastructure
across
AWS
(
EKS
)
and
GCP
(
GKE
)
serving
50
M
+
daily
API
requests
with
99.99%
uptime
.
—
Reduced
deployment
time
from
45
minutes
to
under
4
minutes
by
redesigning
CI
/
CD
pipelines
with
GitHub
Actions
,
ArgoCD
,
and
blue
-
green
deployments
.
—
Led
migration
of
200+
microservices
from
a
monolithic
deployment
model
to
Kubernetes
-
native
deployments
with
Istio
service
mesh
,
reducing
p
99
latency
by
38%.
—
Built
comprehensive
observability
stack
using
Prometheus
,
Grafana
,
Loki
,
and
Tempo
,
enabling
real
-
time
root
cause
analysis
and
reducing
MTTR
from
90
minutes
to
12
minutes
.
—
Implemented
policy
-
as
-
code
with
OPA
/
Gatekeeper
,
automating
compliance
enforcement
across
15+
development
teams
.
—
Reduced
cloud
infrastructure
costs
by
34% (
$
2.1
M
annualized
)
through
right
-
sizing
,
spot
instance
adoption
,
and
Kubernetes
cluster
autoscaling
optimization
.
—
1 / 3
Nextera
Technologies
Mar
2019 –
Dec
2021
DevOps
Engineer
Austin
,
TX
Praxis
Health
Jun
2016 –
Feb
2019
Systems
Engineer
/
DevOps
Chicago
,
IL
EDUCATION
University
of
Illinois
at
Urbana
-
Champaign
2012 – 2016
Bachelor
of
Science
in
Computer
Science
Minor
in
Mathematics
·
GPA
: 3.8/4.0 ·
Dean
'
s
List
Coursera
/
DeepLearning
.
AI
2020
Machine
Learning
Engineering
for
Production
(
MLOps
)
Certification
— 6-
course
specialization
CERTIFICATIONS
AWS
—
Solutions
Architect
Professional
(2023)
AWS
—
DevOps
Engineer
Professional
(2022)
CNCF
—
Certified
Kubernetes
Administrator
(
CKA
)
HashiCorp
—
Terraform
Associate
(2023)
Google
Cloud
—
Professional
Cloud
Architect
(2021)
ISC
2
—
Certified
Cloud
Security
Professional
(
CCSP
)
KEY
PROJECTS
Self
-
Healing
Infrastructure
Platform
Terraform
·
Kubernetes
·
Prometheus
·
Python
·
Argo
Workflows
Multi
-
Cloud
Cost
Optimization
Engine
Python
·
AWS
Lambda
·
GCP
Cloud
Functions
·
Terraform
·
InfluxDB
Designed
and
implemented
Terraform
-
based
infrastructure
-
as
-
code
for
80+
AWS
accounts
,
enabling
self
-
service
environment
provisioning
in
under
10
minutes
.
—
Built
CI
/
CD
pipelines
for
40+
microservices
using
Jenkins
and
Spinnaker
,
achieving
15+
daily
deployments
with
zero
-
downtime
release
strategy
.
—
Migrated
legacy
on
-
premises
CI
infrastructure
to
GitHub
Actions
and
ephemeral
runners
on
AWS
,
reducing
build
queue
times
by
85%
and
monthly
infrastructure
costs
by
$
12
K
.
—
Implemented
HashiCorp
Vault
for
secrets
management
across
120+
applications
,
achieving
SOC
2
compliance
with
automated
audit
logging
.
—
Containerized
30+
legacy
Java
and
Python
applications
using
Docker
and
custom
base
images
,
cutting
deployment
failures
by
72%.
—
Managed
production
infrastructure
for
HIPAA
-
compliant
healthcare
platform
serving
4
M
+
patients
across
AWS
and
on
-
premises
hybrid
environment
.
—
Automated
server
provisioning
and
configuration
management
using
Ansible
and
Packer
,
reducing
new
environment
setup
from
2
weeks
to
3
hours
.
—
Designed
and
implemented
centralized
logging
and
monitoring
with
ELK
Stack
and
Prometheus
,
providing
real
-
time
visibility
across
200+
servers
.
—
Introduced
Docker
and
Kubernetes
(
kops
)
to
the
organization
,
migrating
60%
of
workloads
into
containers
within
6
months
.
—
Built
an
automated
remediation
system
that
detects
common
failure
patterns
(
node
pressure
,
pod
crash
loops
,
TLS
certificate
expiry
)
and
triggers
corrective
actions
via
Argo
Workflows
,
reducing
pager
fatigue
by
60%.
—
Developed
an
automated
cost
analysis
tool
that
ingests
cloud
billing
data
,
identifies
waste
(
unattached
volumes
,
idle
instances
,
over
-
provisioned
resources
),
and
generates
optimized
—
2 / 3
GitOps
-
Based
Platform
Engineering
Toolkit
ArgoCD
·
Crossplane
·
Backstage
·
GitHub
Actions
·
OPA
```
Terraform
plans
—
saving
$
180
K
annually
.
Designed
an
internal
developer
platform
enabling
self
-
service
provisioning
of
Kubernetes
namespaces
,
databases
,
and
DNS
records
via
Pull
Requests
,
reducing
platform
team
tickets
by
80%.
—
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