name: Shivam Kumar
role: DevOps Engineer II
company: Kimbal Technologies
experience: 2+ Years
location: Delhi, India 🇮🇳
tenure: Jan 2024 - Present
expertise:
- DevOps Engineer
- Cloud-Native Architecture
- GitOps & Kubernetes
- Infrastructure Automation
- Disaster Recovery & High Availability
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Building secure, scalable, and automated infrastructure
that powers mission-critical systems at scale.🔹 Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Developing Terraform modules for cloud provisioning, enhancing reusability and consistency
🔹 Container Orchestration: Managing production Kubernetes clusters with Helm and ArgoCD for GitOps-driven deployments
🔹 CI/CD Excellence: Building and maintaining automated pipelines for 10+ microservices using GitHub Actions
🔹 AWS Cloud Expertise: Working with EKS, EC2, S3, VPC, WAF, Inspector, Lambda, EventBridge, SNS, and CloudWatch
🔹 Monitoring & Alerting: Implementing multi-level alerting with Zabbix, integrated with Teams, PagerDuty, and email
🔹 Security & Compliance: Deploying Wazuh for security monitoring, SonarQube for code quality, and Vault for secrets management
🔹 Automation at Scale: Automated 50-100+ tasks ranging from system maintenance to cloud provisioning
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DevOps Engineer II (Jun 2025 - Present)
DevOps Engineer (Jun 2024 - Jun 2025)
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🔄 Automation
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☸️ Kubernetes & GitOps
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🛡️ Reliability & DR
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🔧 DevOps & Automation
Infrastructure Automation:
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions (10+ microservices pipelines), ArgoCD, CodePipeline
- IaC: Terraform (custom modules), Ansible (configuration management)
- Scripting: Bash, PowerShell for 50-100+ automation tasks
- GitOps: ArgoCD for declarative Kubernetes deployments
Key Technologies:
- AWS Lambda + EventBridge for event-driven automation
- Ansible playbooks for EMQX, OpenVPN, PostgreSQL configuration
- Terraform for cloud resource provisioning and management
☁️ Cloud & Infrastructure
| Area | Technologies | Expertise |
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| AWS Services | EKS, EC2, S3, VPC, WAF, Inspector, Lambda, EventBridge, SNS, CloudWatch | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Container Orchestration | Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, ArgoCD | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Networking | VPC, DNS Management, Hybrid Infrastructure, OpenVPN | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Disaster Recovery | 30+ DC-DR & DR-DC drills, Backup strategies | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
📊 Monitoring & Observability
- Monitoring: Zabbix (integrated with internal systems for real-time visibility)
- Alerting: Multi-level alerts via Email, Microsoft Teams, and PagerDuty
- Cloud Monitoring: AWS CloudWatch with full logging and metrics tracking
- Security Monitoring: Wazuh deployed across 10+ environments
- Code Quality: SonarQube for automated code quality analysis
🔐 Security & Secrets Management
- Secrets Management: HashiCorp Vault for secure credential handling
- Security Monitoring: Wazuh for threat detection and compliance
- Code Security: SonarQube for vulnerability scanning
- AWS Security: WAF, Inspector, Security Groups configuration
- Network Security: OpenVPN setup and management
🗄️ Database & Storage
- Relational: PostgreSQL (production clusters with pgBackRest backups), MSSQL
- NoSQL: Cassandra, Neo4j
- Backup Strategy: Automated PostgreSQL backups to S3 using pgBackRest with Ansible
- Performance: Database optimization, high availability configurations
📦 Artifact & Repository Management
- Nexus Repository: Managing and distributing build artifacts and Docker images
- Container Registries: Docker image lifecycle management
- Version Control: Git, GitHub for source code and GitOps workflows
- EMQX Messaging: 3-node production cluster with auto-discovery and MQTT
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Complete home lab infrastructure setup for learning and experimenting with DevOps tools and practices. Features containerization, orchestration, and monitoring solutions.
Intelligent bot that automatically summarizes WhatsApp conversations using AI/ML techniques. Built with automation and natural language processing capabilities.
Performance profiling and visualization tool for analyzing system bottlenecks and optimizing application performance. Essential for DevOps troubleshooting.
- 🔧 Infrastructure Automation: Terraform modules for AWS infrastructure provisioning and management
- 🐳 GitOps with ArgoCD: Declarative Kubernetes deployments for 10+ microservices
- 📊 Multi-Level Monitoring: Zabbix integration with PagerDuty, Teams, and email alerting
- 🔐 Security Pipeline: Wazuh deployment across 10+ environments with SonarQube integration
- ☁️ Cloud Migration: Successfully executed 30+ disaster recovery drills for utility clients
- 🤖 Event-Driven Automation: AWS Lambda functions triggered by EventBridge for operational tasks
- 💾 Database Automation: pgBackRest-based PostgreSQL backup automation to S3
- 📡 EMQX Cluster: Production-ready 3-node MQTT messaging cluster with auto-discovery
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║ "DevOps Engineering is about building systems ║
║ that are reliable, scalable, and maintainable." ║
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💡 Passionate About:
- 🚀 Building secure, scalable, and automated infrastructure
- 📖 Open source contributions and continuous learning
- 🧠 Solving infrastructure challenges at scale
- 🔄 GitOps practices and cloud-native deployments
- 🎯 Disaster recovery planning and execution
- 📊 Teaching CS fundamentals to aspiring engineers
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role: "DevOps Engineer II @ Kimbal Technologies",
learning: ["Advanced Kubernetes Patterns", "GitOps Best Practices", "AWS Solutions Architecture"],
working_on: [
"AWS Lambda automation with EventBridge",
"Multi-level alerting systems",
"PostgreSQL backup automation",
"Infrastructure optimization"
],
exploring: ["FinOps", "Platform Engineering", "Service Mesh"],
hobbies: ["Golf 🏌️♂️", "Traveling ✈️", "Teaching 📖"],
motto: "Automate everything, monitor everything, secure everything!",
fun_fact: "Successfully conducted 30+ DR drills without breaking a sweat! 💪"
};open_for:
- DevOps Consulting
- Cloud Infrastructure Reviews
- Technical Mentorship
- Open Source Collaborations
- Speaking Opportunities
specialties:
- Kubernetes & GitOps Implementation
- AWS Infrastructure Automation
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- CI/CD Pipeline Design
- Security & Compliance
reach_me_at: shivam.sk2003@gmail.com
response_time: < 24 hours ⚡🔹 Infrastructure Setup & Migration
🔹 Kubernetes & ArgoCD Implementation
🔹 CI/CD Pipeline Design & Optimization
🔹 Cloud Cost Optimization & FinOps
🔹 Disaster Recovery Strategy & Execution
I've automated so many tasks that my colleagues think I have a twin! 🤖
Infrastructure as Code? More like Infrastructure as Coffee! ☕
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