Tinku Shyam K M
Senior Cloudops Engineer
Bangalore
Summary
Experienced DevOps Engineer with 6 years of expertise in designing and optimizing scalable cloud infrastructures in the AWS ecosystem. Skilled in infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipeline configuration, and implementing cost reduction strategies to increase system reliability by up to 15%. Proficient in using tools like Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and ArgoCD for efficient configuration management, monitoring, and adherence to DevOps best practices. Demonstrated leadership abilities by effectively leading technical teams, offering mentorship, and driving continuous improvement initiatives in cloud-native environments.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Senior DevOps Engineer
Nference Labs
09.2023 - 02.2025
- Designed and deployed scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure on AWS, supporting AI healthcare devices in a microservices-based architecture.
- Led infrastructure monitoring and alerting solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Cortex, and Loki, contributing to an alert reduction initiative that improved response times and reduced noise.
- Migrated legacy applications from VMs to Docker containers, then orchestrated with Kubernetes, improving resource utilization and deployment scalability.
- Implemented ArgoCD for continuous deployment workflows, and managed application configurations using Helm charts, resulting in faster, repeatable deployments.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, building modular, reusable configurations for EC2, S3, RDS, and VPC, enabling consistent, version-controlled deployments.
- Applied IAM best practices, creating secure, role-based access policies, and integrating with third-party identity providers to enforce least-privilege access.
- Developed and managed CI/CD pipelines, achieving a 40% reduction in deployment time, and a 20% boost in release frequency.
- Managed system configurations using Ansible, and implemented monitoring and logging stacks across environments using Fluentd, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail.
- Optimized cloud resource usage by analyzing cost metrics and making recommendations for more efficient configurations.
- Maintained systems that monitored applications and infrastructure.
Devops- Noc Engineer
OLA Cabs (Ani technologies Pvt ltd)
09.2021 - 09.2023
- Deploying, managing, provisioning, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS.
- Hands-on experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS) provisioning and AWS services like EC2, S3, Glacier, Route 53, Load Balancer, VPC, IAM, CloudTrail, SNS, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, CloudFront, etc.
- Experience in creating, troubleshooting, tuning, and monitoring Docker applications running in Apache Mesos/Marathon clusters.
- Works with Dev Teams to onboard and troubleshoot applications during deployments.
- Managing over 3,500 EC2 instances in AWS and monitoring them using monitoring services and applications with different monitoring tools, such as Grafana, New Relic, and PagerDuty.
- Big data: basic hands-on knowledge of the Hadoop Ambari Cluster and YARN jobs.
- Handled release events: setting up CDN, ALB, upscaling, and monitoring traffic and health.
- Helping developers onboard applications, e.g., setting up instance configs, adding pipelines, deploying in stage and prod environments, creating endpoints, etc.
- Troubleshooting common errors and identifying whether the issue is with infrastructure or code.
- Setting up dashboards in Grafana and New Relic as per requirements.
System Engineer
Innovature Software labs
06.2018 - 09.2021
- Worked on the AWS Cloud Platform and its features, which include EC2, RDS, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudWatch, VPC, AWS CloudFormation, and load balancing.
- Installation and configuration of the server monitoring tool (Zabbix).
- Linux System Administration (User management, Package management, Disk management).
- Linux Server Administration.
- Proactively monitoring servers using Zabbix.
- Writing shell scripts where possible automations are required.
- Proven experience in continuous build and deployments to multiple environments, such as Dev, QA, Performance, and UAT.
- Responsible for creating and maintaining builds, administering Jenkins, and being involved in deployment-related activities.
- Worked on Docker, including Docker installation, creating images, and containers.
- Resolved issues and escalated problems with knowledgeable support and quality service.
- Resolved complex technical issues through effective problem-solving techniques and root cause analysis.
Education
BTech - Electronics and Communication Engineering
College of Engineering Adoor
Kerala 01.2010 - 01.2014
Skills
AWS
GCP
Terraform
Git
GitHub
Jenkins
ArgoCD
Ansible
Docker
Kubernetes
Helm
Shell Scripting
Python
Prometheus
Grafana
Newrelic
Zabbix
ELK
ServiceNow
Infrastructure automation
Monitoring and logging
Scripting languages
Configuration management
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the above furnished information is true to the best of my knowledge.
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 07/16/92
Timeline
Senior DevOps Engineer
Nference Labs
09.2023 - 02.2025
Devops- Noc Engineer
OLA Cabs (Ani technologies Pvt ltd)
09.2021 - 09.2023
System Engineer
Innovature Software labs
06.2018 - 09.2021
BTech - Electronics and Communication Engineering
College of Engineering Adoor
01.2010 - 01.2014