PRAKHAR TIWARI

GKS & OKE :

• Streamlined Kubernetes cluster creation and management by developing GKS, a unified platform allowing users to configure and deploy clusters across AWS and OCI through a single interface using CI/CD pipelines
• Leveraged Terraform for infrastructure-as-code, ensuring consistency and compliance .
• Played a critical role in the product's initial phases, leveraging expertise from EKS to onboard in-house customers .
• Introduced Bastion in our product to securely expose the environment to the internet .
• Developed numerous OKE-specific features and led cluster upgrade processes for key customers, ensuring streamlined updates .
• Solely responsible for Production releases of features developed in the lower environments
• Contributed to backend development for the product, delivering key features aligned with customer's and product owner's requirements
• Successfully reduced AWS costs by over 60% through optimization strategies, resource allocation, and implementing a reporting system to track and optimize resource usage.

• Underwent extensive training in AWS, Linux, and Terraform, gaining hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure and automation .
• Gradually took on additional responsibilities, including minor development tasks in an EKS-based project, enhancing automation and operational efficiency .
• Assumed responsibility for identifying and cleaning up redundant resource, thereby contributing to cost optimization and enhancing the security posture