ASWIN KUMAR

Cloud & DevOps Engineer
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About Me

Results-driven Cloud & DevOps Engineer with over 7 years of experience in Network Operations, Infrastructure Management and Automations. Transitioning from a strong background in network engineering to cloud automation and orchestration. Proficient in AWS & GCP, utilizing Terraform for IaC and Ansible for config management. Skilled in Kubernetes administration and Helm charting for efficient application delivery.

Technical Ecosystem

Cloud Infrastructure

  • AWS (EC2, VPC, S3, IAM)
  • GCP (Compute, GKE)

Orchestration & Containers

  • Kubernetes (K8s)
  • Helm Charts
  • Docker

IaC & Config Mgmt

  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Packer
  • CloudFormation

CI/CD & Automation

  • Jenkins
  • GitHub Actions
  • ArgoCD (GitOps)
  • SonarQube

Observability & Logging

  • Prometheus & Grafana
  • ELK Stack (Elastic, Kibana)
  • Splunk & CloudWatch

Cloud Net & Security

  • Route53, VPC, VPN
  • AWS WAF, Security Groups
  • Nginx (Ingress/LB)
  • SSL/TLS

Databases & Data

  • RDS (SQL) & DynamoDB
  • S3 Object Storage
  • Kafka (Messaging)
  • RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS
Python
Bash
HCL
SQL
YAML

Key Projects

Monolith to Cloud Migration (IaC)
CloudFormationNode.js/PM2RDS (MySQL)
  • Provisioned full AWS Stack (VPC, ALB, EC2, RDS) using CloudFormation.
  • Automated bootstrapping (Node.js, PM2, systemd) via UserData scripts.
  • Implemented real-time EC2 metadata dashboard for instance tracking.
Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
AWSGCPTerraform
  • Designed multi-cloud environment orchestrating worker nodes on AWS & GCP.
  • Developed modular Terraform scripts for VPCs, Subnets, and S3 backends.
  • Automated "bootstrap" phase using Ansible playbooks.
Automated Container Deployment
DockerAnsiblePython
  • Containerized Python Flask apps using Docker to eliminate OS mismatch.
  • Automated deployment pipelines using Ansible server provisioning.
  • Configured production-grade WSGI (Gunicorn) for high availability.
Microservices Orchestration
K8sHelmSplunk
  • Architected unified Helm Charts for hybrid workloads (Nginx, Kafka, Splunk).
  • Implemented auto-scaling (HPA) for Nginx pods based on traffic metrics.
  • Engineered stateful storage using StatefulSets and PVCs for Kafka.

Certifications

CCNA – Network & Switching

Juniper Technologies

Penetration Testing

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Computer Forensics

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