Soni Palariya

• Led the end-to-end design and development of a serverless central deployment engine (API Gateway, EventBridge, CodeBuild, Lambda) enabling secure, large-scale multi-account plugin deployments through the self-service portal.
• Automated the AWS deployment ecosystem using Terraform, Python, Docker, and GitHub Actions and implemented repo skeleton templates for Terraform, Helm, and Shell plugins via Backstage.
• Designed and developed multiple AWS REST API endpoints (install/uninstall, logs, onboarding/offboarding, secrets validation, dry run) to streamline integration with platform services and improve developer experience.
• Implemented observability and monitoring with Datadog (dashboards, logs, build notifications), improving visibility, performance tracking across the platform and automated refined build notification to Mattermost.
• Built a testing framework with AWS Step Functions, reducing API-driven test execution time by ~70% and drove critical infra migration initiatives (state/IP migration, Velero-based K8s workload migration, multi-region deployments Functionality).
• Strengthened platform security and compliance by developing a custom validation engine for Terraform and Helm, enforcing configuration standards, detecting vulnerabilities and integrating TFsec, KICS and Checkov into the pipeline.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams (frontend/UI, platform creators) to define feature requirements, document architecture decisions, set project roadmaps, and lead sprint planning in PI planning sessions. Also contributed to hiring processes and supported AI-based documentation chatbot initiatives.

Tech Stack: AWS Serverless (API Gateway, EventBridge, CodeBuild, Lambda, Step Functions, S3, IAM, Secrets Manager, KMS, VPC, EC2, ECR, SNS, CloudWatch), Terraform, Helm, TFsec, KICS, Checkov, Python, GitHub Actions, Docker, Backstage, Datadog, Jira, Confluence

• Automated and managed AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters using Terraform, CloudFormation, Python (Boto3), Helm, and GitLab CI/CD, improving scalability and reducing provisioning time.
• Deployed and managed microservices and containerized applications across multi-environment setups with Helm and CI/CD pipelines.
• Implemented cost optimization by automating cleanup of unused EBS volumes and Elastic IPs with Lambda.
• Built serverless architectures (Lambda, EFS, Athena federated queries) for operational automation and data processing.
• Designed and build observability and incident management using Dynatrace, MONACO (monitoring as code) and PagerDuty integrations.

Tech Stack: AWS (EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, SNS, ALB, EBS, EFS, Lightsail, Athena), Terraform, CloudFormation, Python (Boto3), Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, GitLab CI/CD, EFK, Dynatrace, MONACO, PagerDuty, Linux, Jira, Confluence.

• Automated application deployments, configuration management, and infra operations using Ansible, Ansible Tower and Jenkins pipelines (Groovy, Maven, Nexus, Git).
• Designed and managed CI/CD pipelines supporting weekly and out-of-cycle releases, improving release efficiency and reducing manual effort.
• Supported AWS cloud infrastructure (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Route53, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFront, Systems Manager) for enterprise workloads.
• Automated AWS provisioning and operations using Python (Boto3) and Infrastructure as Code, accelerating environment setup.
• Enhanced monitoring, logging and troubleshooting with CloudWatch/CloudTrail.

Tech Stack: AWS, Ansible, Ansible Tower, Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket, SVN, Maven, Docker, Nexus, Python (Boto3), Shell, Linux, Windows IIS, MySQL, Jira, ServiceNow, Confluence.