Mohan Kumar Chinthapanti
Chennai
Summary
AWS DevOps Engineer with over 6.9 years of experience in automating cloud infrastructure using AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Successfully designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and CodePipeline, resulting in increased deployment frequency and reduced release times. Proficient in integrating serverless architectures with AWS Lambda and skilled in monitoring solutions using CloudWatch, Elasticsearch, and Prometheus. Expertise in infrastructure as code with Terraform and version control with GitHub and Bitbucket, leading successful server migration projects to AWS.
Overview
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Certification
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years of professional experience
Work History
DevOps Engineer
LTM | Fiserv-VisionNext AUS
Chennai, India
06.2026 - Current
- Designed and implemented end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Harbor, Helm, Argo CD, and Kubernetes, automating application delivery from source-code commit through deployment.
- Developed and maintained GitLab CI pipeline configurations (.gitlab-ci.yml) to automate application build, validation, Docker image creation, tagging, and publishing to Harbor Container Registry.
- Implemented GitOps-based Continuous Delivery using Argo CD, integrating GitLab CI with GitOps repositories and Kubernetes to achieve automated, declarative, and version-controlled application deployments.
- Created production-ready Dockerfiles to containerize applications, implementing optimized image build practices and integrating container image creation and publishing into GitLab CI pipelines.
- Developed reusable Helm charts and umbrella charts to package and manage Kubernetes application deployments, enabling centralized configuration and consistent deployment of multiple application components.
- Designed Helm umbrella chart structures to orchestrate multiple dependent application charts and manage environment-specific deployment configurations through centralized values and chart dependencies.
- Integrated Helm-based Kubernetes deployments with Argo CD, enabling Git-driven application releases and automated reconciliation of the desired state within Kubernetes clusters.
- Implemented the complete CI/CD workflow: GitLab → Docker Build → Harbor → GitOps Repository → Argo CD → Kubernetes, establishing a standardized automated deployment process.
- Managed Kubernetes deployment configurations using Helm and GitOps practices, ensuring application manifests, configuration changes, and release versions remain fully version-controlled and auditable.
- Implemented automated image versioning and deployment promotion mechanisms, connecting CI-generated container image versions with Helm values and GitOps configurations consumed by Argo CD.
- Troubleshot and resolved end-to-end pipeline and deployment issues across GitLab CI, Docker builds, Harbor image pulls, Helm releases, Argo CD synchronization, and Kubernetes workloads.
- Established reusable CI/CD and Helm patterns to standardize application onboarding and reduce repetitive manual configuration across Kubernetes-based deployments.
- Implemented declarative deployment practices using Helm, Git, and Argo CD, minimizing manual kubectl-based deployments and reducing configuration drift across Kubernetes environments.
- Collaborated with development teams to onboard applications into the standardized CI/CD framework, creating the required Dockerfiles, GitLab CI configurations, Helm charts, and GitOps deployment configurations.
DevOps Engineer
Hcl Tech | Bank of Ireland
Chennai, India
02.2023 - 06.2026
- Cloud Platforms: AWS (CloudFormation, IAM, SCP, VPC, EKS, ECS, ECR, EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, SQS, SNS, Route 53).
- DevOps Tools: CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CloudFormation.
- Programming and scripting: JSON, YAML .
- Automation: Jenkins, Git, AWS Lambda.
- Monitoring and Logging: CloudWatch, New Relic One, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- Managed AWS services, focusing on containerised applications using EKS and ECS, as well as managing EC2, RDS, S3, and VPC.
- Hands-on experience provisioning AWS cloud-native services like AWS X-Ray, AWS Lambda (YAML), AWS Glue, and AWS database services; built understanding of different services using S3 security groups for secure API gateways.
- Extensive hands-on experience in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation templates, and tools/services to provision and set up.
- Deployed microservices in Kubernetes environments suitable for different write orchestrations.
- Implemented observability leveraging CloudWatch, Dynatrace, and Splunk (monitoring tools) to deliver clear communication across new technology projects.
- Hands-on setting up AWS infrastructure with Landing Zones, AWS services using IaC (GitHub), and auto-provisioning AWS environments.
- Specialised in troubleshooting services and applications.
- Integrated AWS services with serverless Lambda functions for event-driven architectures.
- Developed monitoring and alerting solutions using CloudWatch and Elasticsearch, reducing downtime.
- Collaborated on projects involving Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring containerised applications are scalable, resilient, and efficient.
- Implemented end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with CodePipeline and Jenkins, by integrating code repositories with build, test, and deployment stages. Followed agile methodology on the sprint model release life cycle, utilising change requests and user stories with the Jira ticketing tool.
- Possessing extensive expertise in infrastructure as code (IaC) utilising HashiCorp Terraform and deploying applications on cloud-based platforms such as AWS.
- Developed and automated cloud serverless functions for event-driven applications on Cloud Functions and Lambda.
- Enhanced security through the implementation of IAM roles, monitoring systems, and encryption measures, while maintaining industry compliance standards.
- Responsible for the maintenance and administration of GIT and Bitbucket version control tools.
AWS DevOps Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services | Hp Inc
Chennai, India
01.2020 - 02.2023
- Led DevOps initiatives to automate infrastructure management using Terraform and CloudFormation.
- Worked on integrating DevOps tools and best practices with AWS services, facilitating seamless operations, and enhancing development speed.
- Played a key role in the design and implementation of comprehensive continuous integration, distribution, and delivery systems for Agile projects. Highly skilled in UNIX/Linux, Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Responsible for setting up and managing Jenkins Master-Slave architecture, ensuring smooth build and deployment processes.
- Implemented effective measures for secure access control and data protection by enforcing security best practices such as IAM roles, policies, and MFA.
- I was highly skilled in AWS services and implemented many services to create the infrastructure for the application.
- Good understanding of technical hotfixes, as well as functional DevOps and Prod Support.
- Utilised Git for version control and followed Git workflows to collaborate, and track versions.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define infrastructure requirements, ensure smooth deployments, and maintained detailed documentation of architecture in Confluence and troubleshooting guides.
- Also configured multiple dashboards for application monitoring and alerts using New Relic and Splunk.
- Worked with automation scripts using YAML/JSON.
Education
B.Tech - EEE
Audisankara college of Engineering & Technology
Guduru, AP2019
Skills
- AWS (Cloud infrastructure)
- Docker
- Kubernetes (Container orchestration)
- Terraform (Infrastructure as code)
- Jenkins
- ArgoCD
- GitLab
- GitOps
- GIT
- GitHub
- Bitbucket
- JSON/YAML Scripting
- New Relic
- Splunk
- Dynatrace
- CI/CD pipelines
Certification
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer-Professional
- HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate
EDUCATION
other
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
LTM | Fiserv-VisionNext AUS
06.2026 - Current
DevOps Engineer
Hcl Tech | Bank of Ireland
02.2023 - 06.2026
AWS DevOps Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services | Hp Inc
01.2020 - 02.2023
B.Tech - EEE
Audisankara college of Engineering & Technology