Kubernetes Engineer with 6 years of experience in designing, deploying, and managing containerized applications in production environments. Hands-on expertise in Kubernetes administration, Docker, Helm, CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, cloud platforms, monitoring, logging, and production support. Experienced in building highly available Kubernetes clusters, automating deployments, optimizing application performance, and implementing security best practices.

Expertise & skills

Containerization

KubernetesDockerHelmKustomize

Cloud Platforms

AWS (EKSEC2IAMVPCS3)Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Infrastructure as Code

TerraformAnsible

CI/CD

JenkinsGitHub ActionsGitLab CIArgo CD

Monitoring & Logging

PrometheusGrafanaELK StackAlertmanager

Networking

NGINX Ingress ControllerIstio Service MeshCoreDNSLoad Balancers

Scripting

BashPython

Operating Systems

Linux (UbuntuCentOSRHEL)

Version Control

GitGitHubBitbucket

Selected projects

Enterprise Kubernetes Platform Modernization

Migrated more than 100 applications from virtual machines to Kubernetes.
Developed reusable Helm charts for application deployment.
Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform.
Configured Horizontal Pod Autoscaler for production workloads.
Optimized resource utilization by tuning CPU and memory limits.
Improved deployment consistency using GitOps practices.

Production Kubernetes Cluster Administration

Managed multiple production Kubernetes clusters.
Performed cluster upgrades with minimal downtime.
Configured monitoring dashboards using Grafana.
Implemented alerting using Prometheus Alertmanager.
Managed namespaces, RBAC, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and Network Policies.
Resolved production incidents and performance bottlenecks.

CI/CD Automation Platform

Designed automated CI/CD pipelines for microservices.
Automated Docker image creation and deployment.
Integrated vulnerability scanning into build pipelines.
Reduced deployment time significantly through automation.
Implemented rollback strategies for production releases.

Kubernetes Security Implementation

Implemented Kubernetes RBAC policies.
Configured Pod Security Standards.
Secured cluster communication using Istio.
Managed Secrets securely within Kubernetes.
Enforced network segmentation using Network Policies.

Monitoring & Logging Platform

Built centralized monitoring dashboards.
Configured log aggregation across Kubernetes clusters.
Automated alert notifications.
Improved infrastructure visibility.
Reduced Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR).

Certifications

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (Information Technology)
Savitribai Phule Pune University

Achievements

Successfully managed Kubernetes environments hosting 150+ microservices.
Reduced deployment time by 70% through CI/CD automation.
Improved infrastructure availability to 99.95%.
Reduced cloud infrastructure cost by 25% through Kubernetes resource optimization.
Implemented GitOps deployment strategy using Argo CD.
Standardized Kubernetes deployments using reusable Helm charts.
Improved production monitoring and alerting, reducing incident response time by 40%.