Leading security-first DevOps initiatives for an AI/QA platform, hardening cloud infrastructure and embedding security gates across the entire SDLC.

• •Integrated Trivy, SonarQube, and OWASP ZAP into GitLab CI pipelines, reducing critical vulnerabilities by 70% before production deployment
• •Architected high-availability Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS EKS across dev/staging/prod with 99.95% uptime and automated failover
• •Deployed HashiCorp Vault for secrets management and rotated credentials across 50+ services with zero downtime
• •Built Infrastructure as Code foundation using Terraform and Ansible, cutting environment provisioning time from days to minutes
• •Established Prometheus + Grafana + Loki observability stack, reducing mean time to detect (MTTD) incidents by 60%
• •Mentored 2 junior engineers on Kubernetes security best practices and GitOps workflows with ArgoCD

Full-stack DevOps ownership for microservices platforms, delivering automated pipelines and production-grade containerization for client projects.

• •Developed and maintained 15+ GitLab CI pipelines automating build, test, and deployment processes for microservices applications
• •Orchestrated containerized deployments on Kubernetes clusters with auto-scaling, service mesh, and ingress load balancing
• •Reduced Docker image sizes by up to 90% and deployment time by 60% through multi-stage builds and layer caching strategies
• •Implemented ELK stack for centralized logging and Grafana dashboards for application performance monitoring
• •Collaborated with a 6-person engineering squad to deliver 4 major client releases on schedule