KANISHK THAKUR

DevOps & Cloud Engineer
Hyderabad, IN.

About

Highly accomplished DevOps & Cloud Engineer with over 4 years of experience specializing in designing, automating, and securing robust cloud-native infrastructure across AWS and GCP environments. Expert in leveraging Kubernetes, Terraform, and advanced CI/CD pipelines to drive significant improvements in deployment efficiency, system stability, and operational excellence. Proven ability to implement scalable container orchestration, optimize database performance, and enforce stringent cloud security best practices in high-scale production environments.

Work

Deloitte
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DevOps & Cloud Consultant

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Summary

As a DevOps & Cloud Consultant at Deloitte, Kanishk engineered and deployed secure, high-performance cloud solutions and CI/CD pipelines for enterprise clients, significantly improving delivery cycles and infrastructure stability.

Highlights

Engineered and deployed a secure chatbot solution for an agriculture enterprise by provisioning isolated AWS EC2 environments and building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, resulting in 40% faster delivery cycles and improved infrastructure stability.

Optimized GCP-based infrastructure for a high-availability database center by configuring multi-environment support and implementing CI/CD pipelines for containerized Python and React microservices using Google Cloud Run, increasing deployment efficiency by 60%.

Automated Helm value management and ArgoCD sync/rollback pipelines, improving release reliability and reducing downtime by 99.9%.

Implemented real-time notification workflows via Microsoft Teams, Slack, and email for post-deployment validation, reducing mean time to detect (MTTD) by 50%.

Enforced infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform and Ansible, resulting in standardized provisioning and 25% fewer configuration drift incidents.

Architected a Jenkins-based multi-repo CI/CD pipeline supporting various environments, significantly reducing build failure rates and accelerating software releases.

Integrated quality and security gates using SonarQube, Checkmarx (SAST), SCA, and JUnit, enhancing code quality and reducing production vulnerabilities.

Altruista Health
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DevOps Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Summary

As a DevOps Engineer at Altruista Health, Kanishk managed CI/CD pipelines, automated operational tasks, and ensured system stability across multi-platform environments.

Highlights

Built automation scripts for patching, server provisioning, and daily health checks, reducing manual effort by 50%.

Managed critical incident response, root cause analysis, and recovery processes, ensuring high system availability and maintaining strict SLA compliance.

Standardized diverse environments by integrating Puppet for configuration management, enhancing consistency and reliability.

Managed CI/CD pipelines using TeamCity and PowerShell across multi-platform environments (Windows, Linux), streamlining software delivery processes.

L&T Technology Services
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Associate Software Engineer

Mysore, Karnataka, India

Summary

As an Associate Software Engineer at L&T Technology Services, Kanishk focused on automation development and foundational software engineering practices.

Highlights

Developed automation scripts using Selenium with Python and C# to streamline testing processes.

Completed comprehensive training in essential enterprise tools and methodologies, including Office 365, Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Jira, GitHub, and SDLC.

Education

SRM Institute of Science and Technology
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

B.Tech

Computer Science Engineering

Certificates

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Issued By

Amazon Web Services

Google Cloud Digital Leader

Issued By

Google

AWS Cloud Practitioner

Issued By

Amazon Web Services

Database Management Systems

Issued By

NPTEL

Skills

Cloud Platforms

AWS (EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, CodePipeline), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), GKE, Cloud SQL, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, Cloud Build, Google Artifact Registry, GCR, Azure (Basic).

Containerization & Orchestration

Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, EKS, AKS.

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, ARM Templates.

CI/CD Tools

Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps.

Scripting & Automation

Python, Bash, YAML, Perl (basic), SQL.

Monitoring & Logging

Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK Stack, CloudWatch.

Version Control & GitOps

Git, GitHub, GitLab, ArgoCD.

Databases & Services

MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ.

Networking & Security

VPC, load balancing, NAT, TLS/SSL, DNS, VPN, Firewalls, Subnetting, IAM Policies, secrets management.

Operating Systems

Windows Server, Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu), Active Directory (basic).

Virtualization

VMware, vCenter (basic), Hypervisor (familiar).

Processes & Methodologies

Agile, Scrum, DevSecOps, ITIL.

Other Tools

NGINX, Apache, Postman, JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow.