Kishan Kushwaha
New Delhi
Summary
DevOps engineer with 5+ years building reliable CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes-based deployments, and cloud infrastructure on AWS. Strong focus on zero-downtime releases, observability (logs, metrics, APM), and cost optimization. Known for rapid incident response, proactive monitoring, and enforcing engineering standards (branch protection, CODEOWNERS, semantic versioning).
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DevOps Engineer - 2
WeWork India
09.2024 - Current
- Built end-to-end CI/CD with GitHub Actions to deploy containerized apps to Kubernetes (EKS), standardizing build, test, security checks, and progressive delivery.
- Designed zero-downtime deployment strategies , enabling safe and reversible releases.
- Set up centralized logging using Fluent Bit → OpenSearch, with structured logs, index lifecycle policies, and dashboards for rapid root-cause analysis.
- Deployed Prometheus + Grafana for metrics and alerting; added New Relic APM for deep app traces & error analytics.
- Reduced company cloud costs by 35% via right-sizing, environment schedules, storage lifecycle policies, and data-transfer optimizations.
- Accelerated builds using Docker BuildKit with cache mounts and multi-architecture images targeting ARM/AMD64.
- Enforced GitHub branch protection rules and CODEOWNERS to require reviews, status checks, and signed commits before merges.
- Designed AWS infrastructure (VPC, subnets, security groups, EKS/EC2, ECR, RDS, S3, ALB/NLB, Route 53, IAM, Secrets Manager) to improve scalability and resilience.
- Led production incident response—triaged, debugged, and resolved issues quickly to minimize risk and downtime.
- Analyzed system logs, metrics, and user reports to troubleshoot complex issues across services and dependencies.
Senior Software Engineer
Antino Labs
06.2023 - 09.2024
- Provisioned GKE, maintaining all the security measures for the microservices.
- Provisioned a 3-tier architecture via Terraform.
- Provisioned Prometheus and Grafana for the monitoring of the Kubernetes cluster, and EFK for the logging of the cluster.
- Declarative pipeline setup in Jenkins to automate the infrastructure.
- Deployment of the microservices on the Kubernetes cluster and autoscaling of the pods based on the defined metrics.
- Migrated the infrastructure for Guarented from AWS to Azure, and optimised the cost by 50%.
- Infra setup with high availability and zero downtime for the applications.
Senior Analyst - AWS & DevOps
GlobalXperts INC
05.2022 - 05.2023
- Working on different AWS services like EC2, S3, Load Balancer, IAM, VPC, Route 53 (DNS), RDS, CloudWatch, and Transit Gateway.
- Provisioned a 3-tier architecture via Terraform.
- To analyse the raised alarm from Datadog and the CloudWatch Dashboard and act on it to resolve the issue.
- Integrating the Datadog monitoring tools with the servers.
- Working on the provisioning of AWS resources via Terraform and writing Terraform code to build infrastructure in the AWS cloud.
- Working on Ansible for OS-level patching of the infrastructure, and also writing playbooks for the installation and removal of packages.
- Implemented a web server with the help of Jenkins and Ansible, and automated the environment by integrating GitHub with Jenkins.
- Created a Jenkins pipeline to build the Python application.
- Hosted a website on a container using GitHub, Jenkins, Ansible, and Docker.
Technical Associate (Cloud Ops)
Genpact PVT LTD.
03.2020 - 05.2022
- Working on High Availability solutions in AWS cloud infrastructure using Route 53, ELB's Service.
- Server related tasks like provisioning of EC2 instances, creating AMI's, Snapshots, changing instance type & creating new instance from AMI.
- Using ELB to distribute the traffic among various instances in ASG, enabling ELB access logs, creating alarms for the ELB & update the timeout for the ELB based on the application is working.
- Using ASG to create a highly available set up for a website or an application & updating the launch configuration or launch template with the latest patches, able to change the scaling policies based on the load and traffic on the ASG.
- Storage related tasks like disk addition, increase and decrease of existing disk using EBS, have worked on S3 bucket to store data and logs and enable versioning on the bucket and creating bucket lifecycle policies.
- Network related tasks like setup of VPC, subnet, route table, SG's, & Elastic IP.
- Monitoring related tasks like creating alarms in cloud watch with the help of AWS CLI & GUI.
Education
BTech - Computer Science & Engineering
Maharishi Dayanand University
Rohtak, Haryana06.2019
Skills
- Cloud: AWS, GCP & Azure
- Orchestration: Kubernetes, AKS, GKE, EKS
- CICD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions & ArgoCD
- Version Control System: Git & Github
- Containerization: Docker
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
- Sonarqube
- Linux
- Monitoring and Alerting: New Relic, Prometheus, and Grafana
- Logging: EFK and OpenSearch
- Scripting: Python & Shell Scripting
- Databases: MongoDB & PostgreSQL
- Redis, Kafka & RabbitMQ
Accomplishments
- 35% cloud cost reduction without service impact (rightsizing, lifecycle rules, traffic & egress review).
- Migration from GCP to AWS for WeWork India.
- Migration from AWS to Azure for Guarented and saved 50% cloud cost.
Certification
- AWS SAA C03 Certified
- Completed CCNA & DevOps training from Teqhub Institute, Dwarka Mor
Disclaimer
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Personal Information
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Single
- Gender: Male
- Date of Birth: 14/06/1996
Timeline
DevOps Engineer - 2
WeWork India
09.2024 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Antino Labs
06.2023 - 09.2024
Senior Analyst - AWS & DevOps
GlobalXperts INC
05.2022 - 05.2023
Technical Associate (Cloud Ops)
Genpact PVT LTD.
03.2020 - 05.2022
BTech - Computer Science & Engineering
Maharishi Dayanand University