Kubernetes Engineer with 4 years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms using VMware Tanzu and upstream Kubernetes. Skilled in KEDA, Kyverno, External Secrets Operator, Crossplane, Jenkins, Docker, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, and production platform engineering.

Expertise & skills

Core Skills

KubernetesVMware TanzuDockerHelmKEDAKyvernoExternal Secrets OperatorCrossplaneTerraformJenkinsGitHub ActionsPrometheusGrafanaLokiFalcoTrivyLinuxBashYAMLGitPlatform EngineeringKubernetes SecurityAutoscaling with KEDAPolicy Management with KyvernoSecrets ManagementInfrastructure AutomationCluster Performance TuningProduction Incident Management

Selected projects

Telecom Platform Modernization

VMware TanzuKubernetesHelm

Managed Tanzu clusters supporting telecom workloads.
Standardized application deployments with Helm.
Performed cluster upgrades and capacity planning.
Implemented namespace isolation and RBAC.
Achievements:
Improved platform stability and reduced operational overhead by 30%.

Event-Driven Autoscaling

KEDAKubernetes

Configured event-driven autoscaling for APIs.
Optimized resource utilization.
Validated scaling policies under production load.
Achievements:
Reduced compute cost by 22%.

Kubernetes Security Hardening

KyvernoFalcoTrivy

Implemented admission policies with Kyverno.
Integrated runtime security monitoring using Falco.
Automated container image scanning.
Achievements:
Improved security compliance across all clusters.

Secrets & Infrastructure Automation

External Secrets OperatorCrossplane

Integrated external secret management.
Provisioned cloud resources using Crossplane.
Automated environment provisioning.
Achievements:
Reduced manual infrastructure tasks by 55%.

Observability Platform

PrometheusGrafanaLoki

Built dashboards and alert rules.
Centralized application and cluster logs.
Performed proactive performance monitoring.
Achievements:
Reduced production incident response time by 40%.

Core competencies

Platform EngineeringKubernetes SecurityAutoscaling with KEDAPolicy Management with KyvernoSecrets ManagementInfrastructure AutomationCluster Performance TuningProduction Incident ManagementCloud-native architectureExcellent analytical skillsStrong troubleshooting abilityAutomation-first mindsetEffective communication