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Hi, I'm Ankit Patel

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Senior Platform / DevOps Engineer with 6+ years of experience across AWS and GCP. CKA certified. I've been the sole DevOps engineer on 20+ production platforms, working with Kubernetes, Terraform, and DevSecOps.

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Ankit Patel

Cloud & DevOps Engineer

Noida, India · Open to Remote

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6+ years of experience as a Senior Platform / DevOps Engineer across AWS and GCP.

Specializing in Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and DevSecOps practices.

CKA & RHCSA certified. Sole DevOps owner for 20+ production platforms.

Ankit Patel
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  • 6+ Years Experience
  • 2 Cloud Certifications
  • 20+ Production Platforms
  • 40% Avg. Cost Reduction
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About Me

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EC2 to ECS Fargate, 20+ services -40% cost

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Prometheus + Grafana + New Relic stack -35% MTTR

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MLflow + Kubeflow pipelines to prod

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security incident streak 0 in 5yr

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CKA certification passed

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I'm a Platform/DevOps Engineer based in Noida, India, with 6+ years managing production infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes. I currently work as a DevOps Engineer at a platform engineering company, where I'm the sole DevOps owner for 20+ client platforms.

My background is B.Sc (PCM), not a traditional engineering degree. I built my infrastructure skills hands-on, in production, and backed them with CKA and RHCSA certifications rather than a CS degree. If a role lists a B.Tech requirement, I'd still like to talk.

Day to day, that means migrating monolithic deployments into microservice architectures, debugging load balancer and networking issues under production traffic, running cost comparisons across cloud providers to cut client infra spend, and building the CI/CD and observability stack that keeps 20+ platforms stable without a dedicated ops team behind me.

Currently deepening my DevSecOps skills alongside day-to-day platform work.

LocationNoida, India
Open toRemote / Hybrid / Bangalore
Tech Stack

Core Technical Skills

Tools and platforms I use day to day

Cloud & Infrastructure as Code

AWSGCPE2E NetworksTerraform

Containers & Orchestration

KubernetesK3sEKSDockerCiliumMetalLB

CI/CD & DevOps

GitHub ActionsECS FargateDrone CI

Observability & Security

PrometheusGrafanaFail2BanWAFSecrets Manager

Databases, Networking & Scripting

PostgreSQLRedisNginxPythonBash
Career

Professional Experience

DevOps Engineer

W3Villa Technology

07/2021 - Present Noida, India
  • Only DevOps engineer for 20+ production platforms, including real-time gaming, e-commerce, and enterprise SaaS. No dedicated ops team.
  • Migrated 20+ microservices from EC2 to ECS Fargate using Terraform and blue-green deployments. Cut infrastructure costs ~40% and got deployments ~85% faster.
  • Built an observability stack with Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, and CloudWatch with SLO-based alerting. MTTR dropped ~35%.
  • Wrote reusable Terraform modules covering 20+ AWS and GCP resource types, cutting environment provisioning time by ~80%.
  • Set up MLOps workflows: MLflow experiment tracking, containerized training jobs, FastAPI inference APIs on Kubernetes.
  • Added security scanning to CI/CD pipelines. No production security incidents in 5 years. 99.9% uptime SLA maintained across all platforms.

Linux System Administrator

Aspirify Enterprises Pvt. Ltd.

08/2020 - 01/2021 Delhi, India
  • Kept 99.8% uptime across 50+ Linux production servers (RHEL, Ubuntu).
  • Automated server provisioning, patching, and security hardening with Bash. Cut manual work by ~60%.
  • Tuned Apache, Nginx, MySQL, and PostgreSQL for production performance.

Linux Server Administrator

Cost2Action

06/2019 - 08/2020 Noida, India
  • Managed multi-server Linux infrastructure for high-traffic applications. Improved reliability ~70% through automation and monitoring.
  • Set up HAProxy load balancing, DNS/DHCP configuration, and monitoring scripts.
Community

Open Source

Tools I build and maintain in the open

Linux · macOS · Windows · MIT · v1.3.0

K8sConsole: one desktop console for Kubernetes and Amazon ECS

An agent-free desktop app for Linux, macOS and Windows for running production workloads. For Kubernetes it gives live resources and YAML, cluster maps, monitoring, logs, pod shells, Helm, a security scan and RBAC tools. For Amazon ECS it covers services, tasks, task definitions, CloudWatch logs and metrics, and a service map, all from your existing kubeconfig and AWS profiles.

  • AWS connections are read-only by default, enforced below the UI on every SDK call
  • Sandboxed Electron UI with no network access; credentials never leave the main process
  • An optional AI assistant that investigates with read-only tools and proposes fixes for review
  • Secure supply chain: CodeQL, dependency review, fuzz tests, a CycloneDX SBOM and signed SLSA provenance for every release
TypeScriptElectronReactKubernetesAmazon ECSAWS SDKGitHub ActionsSLSACodeQL

Contributions welcome: read the contributing guide, or pick an issue labelled good first issue.

K8sConsole Amazon ECS service map: load balancer, target group, services, tasks and task definitions, coloured by health
Featured Work

Key Projects

A few projects I'm proud of

Case Study · Cloud Migration

Migrating a SaaS Platform from Docker Compose to ECS Fargate

Re-architected a two-instance Docker Compose monolith into an 8-microservice architecture on ECS Fargate: Secrets Manager for scoped config, TLS-enforced ElastiCache Redis, an NLB path for RTMP streaming traffic, and SES for transactional email.

Impact: Went from 2 monolithic EC2 instances to 8 independently deployable services, with secrets no longer stored in plaintext anywhere in the stack.

ECS FargateElastiCache RedisSecrets ManagerSESNLB
Read the full case study →
Case Study · Infrastructure as Code

Cutting Infrastructure Costs with a Multi-Cloud Comparison

Provisioned a full 10-resource production architecture (VPC, managed Postgres/Redis, autoscaling API and worker tiers, CDN, load balancer), then benchmarked equivalent specs across an Indian cloud provider, AWS, and GCP to give the client real INR pricing instead of USD list prices.

Impact: Cost report found the Indian cloud provider 50-70% cheaper than AWS/GCP at equivalent specs, giving the client a concrete number to base the infrastructure decision on.

E2E NetworksTerraformAutoscalingCloudflare
Read the full case study →
Cloud Migration

Enterprise Gaming Platform Migration

Migrated a real-time multiplayer gaming platform (20+ containerized microservices) from EC2 to Amazon ECS Fargate with zero downtime. Blue-green and rolling-update deployments, automated CI/CD with Drone CI, standardized infra with Terraform.

Impact: Delivered 85% faster releases and 40% infrastructure cost savings with zero downtime during migration.

ECSEC2TerraformBlue-Green DeploymentsDrone CI
MLOps Platform

Production MLOps Pipeline on AWS

Built an end-to-end MLOps platform: S3 data lake versioned with DVC, Kubeflow training pipelines with MLflow tracking, FastAPI inference via KServe, Evidently AI drift monitoring, and GitHub Actions CI/CD with automated model quality gates.

Impact: Enabled experiment-to-production in under 2 hours, with drift alerts firing within 5 minutes of distribution shift.

MLflowDVCKubeflowKServeEvidently AI
LLMOps / DevSecOps

Production RAG Chatbot on Secured Kubernetes

Built a production RAG chatbot: PDF ingestion, Qdrant vector database, Ollama LLM serving, FastAPI streaming API on k3s with MetalLB. Security layer: OPA/Gatekeeper, Cosign image signing, Gitleaks and Trivy scanning.

Impact: p99 query latency under 800ms with zero secrets committed to the repo.

LangChainQdrantOllamak3sOPA/GatekeeperCosign
DevSecOps / CI/CD

Secure DevSecOps CI/CD Pipeline

Production-grade DevSecOps pipeline: SAST (Semgrep), SCA (Snyk), Trivy container scanning, SBOM generation (Syft), Cosign signing, Gitleaks, OWASP ZAP DAST, and OPA/Gatekeeper policy enforcement. Blocks merge on any HIGH/CRITICAL finding.

Impact: Zero HIGH/CRITICAL findings reached production, with a full audit trail for every build.

SemgrepSnykTrivySyftCosignOWASP ZAP
Infrastructure as Code

Multi-Environment Cloud Infrastructure Platform

Designed and maintained a reusable Terraform module library covering 20+ AWS and GCP resource types (VPC, ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, GKE, Cloud Run), standardizing dev, staging, and production across 15+ projects.

Impact: Provisioning time cut ~80%, from days to under 2 hours, with zero configuration drift.

TerraformAWSGCPTerraform CloudAnsible
Cloud Migration

Azure to GCP Migration (Ruby on Rails)

Migrated a multi-tier Ruby on Rails application from Azure VMs to Google Cloud Run: containerized deployments, private VPC networking, Cloud SQL, Workload Identity Federation for keyless auth, and IAP for zero-trust access.

Impact: Zero-downtime migration with 30% lower monthly cloud spend and static keys eliminated entirely.

Cloud RunCloud SQLIAPWorkload Identity Federation
Credentials

Certifications & Education

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

Covers Kubernetes cluster administration, workload management, networking, storage, and security. I use this daily.

Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)

Red Hat

Linux administration at an enterprise level, where I started before moving into DevOps.

Production-Grade MLOps Training

MLflow · DVC · Kubernetes · AWS

Hands-on training in running ML pipelines in production.

Bachelor of Science (Mathematics)

Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly

2015 - 2018

Available for new opportunities

Let's Talk

Hiring for a platform or DevOps role, or need a hand with infrastructure? Send me an email or message me on LinkedIn.

6+Years Experience
20+Projects Delivered
40%Cost Reduction
99.9%Uptime Achieved
a.ankitpatel01@gmail.com · +91 96908 72353 · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India