Abhishek Gupta, Developer in Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Abhishek Gupta

DevOps Engineer Developer

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Toptal member since March 4, 2020

Bio

Abhishek is a certified Kubernetes Administrator and AWS Solution Architect with 14+ years of experience. He excels in cloud orchestration, configuration management, build and release, deployment, and system administration. He has worked as a senior DevOps engineer with top Fortune 100 companies (FIS) and startup companies (Axim Global and FPComplete), with exposure to banking, finance, telecommunications, product development, crypto, blockchain, gaming, and the services consulting domain.

Portfolio

Carrier Global
Amazon EKS, Amazon Route 53, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon MSK, Cloud
Loco
Kubernetes, Python, Shell Scripting, Amazon Web Services (AWS), DevOps...
ShibaInu
AWS IoT, Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, Helm, Pixel, Streaming, Grafana...

Experience

  • Jenkins - 10 years
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 8 years
  • Python - 7 years
  • Kubernetes - 6 years
  • Microservices - 6 years
  • Docker - 6 years
  • Terraform - 5 years
  • Amazon EKS - 1 year

Preferred Environment

Automation, SaaS Monitoring, Microservices, Amazon Web Services (AWS), DevOps, Kubernetes, Python, Jenkins, ELK (Elastic Stack), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Claude

The most amazing...

...project I've built is a Kubernetes-managed product with SSO login and RBAC-enabled roles for Grafana, Prometheus, and a Kubernetes dashboard.

Work Experience

Senior DevOps Lead

2025 - 2026
Carrier Global
  • Architected and led the migration to a full GitOps delivery model using ArgoCD and Crossplane, eliminating manual deployment steps and cutting release cycle time by 30%.
  • Standardized infrastructure as code using Terraform across dev, stage, and pre-prod environments, enabling consistent, repeatable provisioning across multiple environments/accounts.
  • Established a PlatformOps-as-a-service model, giving 50+ engineering teams self-service infrastructure access and reducing provisioning turnaround to a few hours.
  • Implemented SRE best practices using Prometheus, Grafana, and Fluentbit, improving incident detection across production services.
  • Led cloud cost optimization initiatives, reducing monthly infrastructure spend by 20-30% using savings and best practices.
  • Introduced just-in-time (JIT) access provisioning for cloud resources, cutting standing privileged access and strengthening compliance with least-privilege security principles.
Technologies: Amazon EKS, Amazon Route 53, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon MSK, Cloud

DevOps Engineer

2025 - 2025
Loco
  • Worked on moving from Amazon Prometheus to self-managed Prometheus, reducing costs from $18,000 to $4,000 monthly. This involved looking into metrics cardinality, dropping and relabeling labels, and reducing scrape intervals.
  • Set up the secret manager workflow to remove secrets from GitHub and move them to AWS Secrets Manager. I also implemented a process to rotate JSON Web Tokens (JWT) secrets monthly.
  • Oversaw the deployment of applications using Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaler (KEDA) and Karpenter to reduce costs on stage clusters.
Technologies: Kubernetes, Python, Shell Scripting, Amazon Web Services (AWS), DevOps, Amazon CloudFront, DNS Configuration, PostgreSQL, Git, Lambda Functions, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), REST APIs, NGINX, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon OpenSearch, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), AWS Cloud Security, Observability, Deployment, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), GCP DevOps, GitHub, DevSecOps, AWS ECS Fargate, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloudflare, Vulnerability Management, Vulnerability Scanning, API Integration, Reverse Proxy, Systems Engineering, Compliance, Okta, Google Workspace, MacOS, Scripting, Microsoft 365

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

2024 - 2025
ShibaInu
  • Architected and deployed gaming servers on EKS using Matchmaking, Agones, and AWS Global Accelerator on multi-region clusters.
  • Set up the Pixel Gaming servers using high GPU-based instances on EKS, with GPU operators installed and ingress configurations to manage session-based games.
  • Established Jenkins builds and pipelines to allow game servers to be built on Windows and Linux instances.
  • Set up a new L2 chain on both testnet and mainnet to allow DApps to be built on top of the chain.
  • Established the complete blockchain infrastructure, including backups and disaster recovery.
  • Optimized costs on AWS for blockchain infrastructure.
  • Migrated the entire AWS infrastructure to GCP to make the startup credits available.
Technologies: AWS IoT, Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, Helm, Pixel, Streaming, Grafana, Amazon CloudWatch, Databases, CI/CD Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Games, Cloud, DevOps, CircleCI, Amazon CloudFront, DNS Configuration, PostgreSQL, Git, Lambda Functions, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), REST APIs, TypeScript, Web3, SOC 2, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), NGINX, Amazon DynamoDB, GPU Computing, NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU, Video Gaming, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon OpenSearch, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), AWS Cloud Security, Observability, Deployment, GCP DevOps, GitHub, DevSecOps, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Zero Trust, Cloudflare, Vulnerability Management, Vulnerability Scanning, Cryptocurrency, API Integration, Reverse Proxy, MDM, Claude, Systems Engineering, Compliance, Okta, Google Workspace, MacOS, Scripting, Microsoft 365

Senior DevOps Engineer

2020 - 2024
Varda
  • Set up the project from scratch using Terraform for infrastructure deployment and Helm file for application deployment.
  • Migrated Kubernetes Clusters from 1.16 to 1.18, along with Helm migration from Helm 2 to Helm 3.
  • Set up Instana for monitoring and Elasticsearch for logging solutions with proper HA and indices for faster query time.
  • Improved the current release pipeline with a Clair scanner to check vulnerabilities, proper slack alerting for build failures, etc.
  • Worked on AWS Network from scratch using Terraform. It included VPC, subnets, VPN connections, DHCP options, route tables, and more.
  • Hosted applications on Tyk and AWS API gateway to rate limit, control access using policies, and restrict access to certain APIs based on user-based scenarios.
  • Improved the security aspect of the AWS environments by enabling the best DevSecOps practice using AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Security Hub, and many other tools.
Technologies: Amazon EKS, Helm, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Instana, AWS DevOps, APIs, Node.js, Security, Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, ELK (Elastic Stack), Grafana, Argo CD, CI/CD Pipelines, Crossplane, GitOps, Streaming, API Gateways, DevSecOps, Cloud, DevOps, CircleCI, Amazon CloudFront, DNS Configuration, PostgreSQL, Git, Lambda Functions, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), REST APIs, TypeScript, SOC 2, NGINX, Amazon DynamoDB, MySQL, Datadog, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon OpenSearch, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), AWS Cloud Security, Observability, Deployment, GCP DevOps, GitHub, AWS ECS Fargate, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloudflare, Vulnerability Management, Vulnerability Scanning, API Integration, Reverse Proxy, Systems Engineering, Compliance, Okta, Google Workspace, MacOS, Scripting, Microsoft 365

Senior DevOps Engineer

2020 - 2021
FP Complete
  • Automated and integrated the entire EKS with Istio, Federated Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus Operator using Terraform.
  • Developed an SSO to integrate all internal services such as Kiali, Kubernetes dashboard, Minio, and ArgoCD under one dashboard with Dex and SAML Google ID integration.
  • Secured an entire Kubernetes cluster with an Istio service mesh to ensure recommended practices were followed and hosted applications on Istio Gateway.
  • Set up an HA scalable Kubernetes cluster and helped customers build a robust cluster with monitoring and logging enabled.
  • Integrated Loki, Promtail, Grafana, Slack, Cassandra, and Prometheus both on Windows and Linux Node.js groups.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Python 3, OpenID Connect (OIDC), Python, Bash Script, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Istio, Terraform, Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, AWS DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, APIs, Node.js, Security, Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, ELK (Elastic Stack), Grafana, Bash, Cloud, DevOps, Amazon CloudFront, DNS Configuration, PostgreSQL, Lambda Functions, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), REST APIs, NGINX, Amazon API Gateway, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), AWS Cloud Security, Observability, GitHub, DevSecOps, AWS ECS Fargate, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Vulnerability Management, Vulnerability Scanning, API Integration, Reverse Proxy, Compliance, Okta, Google Workspace, MacOS, Scripting, Microsoft 365

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

2017 - 2019
Axim Global
  • Took ownership of migrating all on-premise applications from Docker to a Kubernetes platform using kOps and to Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS.
  • Served as an SRE for Axim to maintain and deploy all customers' products to the Axim environment, from development to production, using an automated pipeline.
  • Set up logging, alerting, and monitoring systems using Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Promtail, and Elasticsearch on all environments to ensure proper logs and alerts related to disk and CPU memory. The application uses Slack and Microsoft Teams.
  • Worked intensively with Python to set up crawlers for data scraping for one of the customer products and also used the Boto3 AWS Lambda for project reporting.
  • Set up an entire AWS infrastructure from scratch for development, staging, production, and DR with Terraform using the best security measure by hosting all services in private subnets and enabling relevant ports on SG as required by the products.
  • Utilized AWS ECS, both EC2 and Fargate, including task definition, autoscaling, load balancers, and namespaces for services to talk to each other using the microservice architecture deployment.
  • Worked on RDS tuning comparing with PostgreSQL on-premise and Docker. Used database migration tools to import a large amount of data to and from AWS.
  • Set up AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline, and GitLab CI/CD using spec.yaml.
  • Set up highly available systems using the Kubernetes platform and deploying all open-source tools related to Cluster Autoscaler and Metrics Server.
Technologies: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), AWS Data Pipeline Service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Lambda, Python, Microservices, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, AWS DevOps, Node.js, Security, Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, Grafana, CI/CD Pipelines, Bash, Cloud, DevOps, Amazon CloudFront, DNS Configuration, PostgreSQL, Git, Lambda Functions, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), SOC 2, NGINX, Amazon DynamoDB, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), AWS Cloud Security, Observability, GitHub, Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Vulnerability Management, Reverse Proxy

Senior DevOps Engineer

2015 - 2017
Avaya India Pvt, Ltd.
  • Migrated VMware applications to AWS and deployed the product as a service.
  • Set up a CI/CD pipeline. Integrated automating test cases in the build and deployed pipeline.
  • Set up a high-alerting system to send out alerts using Nagios.
  • Established a release management process with Jira and Python to create and update tickets at runtime.
  • Worked on Jenkins and Bamboo to setup up multiple builds using groovy scripting.
Technologies: Jenkins Pipeline, Jenkins, Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware, AWS Lambda, Python, Microservices, Docker, AWS DevOps, Node.js, Grafana, CI/CD Pipelines, Bash, Cloud, DevOps, Amazon CloudFront, DNS Configuration, PostgreSQL, Cloud Infrastructure

Automation Engineer

2012 - 2015
SunGard (FIS)
  • Designed and developed modules and script using Unix Shell scripting.
  • Automated manual tasks using Unix to schedule jobs via AutoSys.
  • Provided L3 support for automation failures and made root cause analysis (RCA) available to customers.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Python, Bash, CI/CD Pipelines, DevOps, DNS Configuration, PostgreSQL

Build Release Engineer

2009 - 2012
Tech Mahindra
  • Involved in the Unix platform migration (HP UX to Linux) and RAC implementation for WebLogic.
  • Resolved issues related to development, testing, and E2E.
  • Oversaw the configuration and maintenance of the WebLogic application server for deployment.
Technologies: Jenkins, CI/CD Pipelines, Bash, DevOps, DNS Configuration

Experience

Migrating Snackr App to Amazon ECS

Deployed a food delivery app during live events. I worked as a DevOps engineer to set up the complete infrastructure using Terraform. It involved migrating Amazon EC2 apps to Docker images and deploying the pipeline via AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodeCommit.

With every change committed to GitHub, the release pipeline is triggered, pushing the updated change to development, staging, and production (via manual approval).

AWS ECS has two containers running via blue-green deployment with load balancers for each app. It was deployed securely on private subnets using proper rule setup in security groups.

Overall, the infrastructure used Terraform code to deploy VPCs, subnets, AWS ECS, task definition, Amazon Route 53, AWS CodePipeline, and more.

AWS Compliance Reporting

Set up a reporting workflow using AWS Lambda and AWS CloudWatch that runs daily on all AWS accounts added to AWS organizations to check for missing tags on all resources.

The main objective of this project was to replace the costly AWS Config. The project setup benefited the company as it became 100% reliable with zero downtime, and the execution cost was reduced to a few dollars a day.

Terraform was used to automate deployment and create all the AWS internal resources to simplify the upgrade process for software development.

AWS Security Group Recovery During Disaster Recovery

Currently, there is no tool on the market to ensure that a security group is replicated across and region or any AWS account. During migration or disaster recovery, the security group must be created manually by comparing it to existing AWS EC2 instances or AWS services.

I worked as a freelancer on this project, which involved planning, architectural design, implementation, execution, and code deployment to AWS infrastructure.

The code was written in Python 3 using the Boto3 module, with proper error-handling checks. Each day, Lambda runs to collect information on the existing production and saves the information in an AWS S3 bucket. As the data is saved in AWS S3, it allows us to use it to restore any disaster recovery times system.

Using AWS CloudWatch, Cloud Monitoring, and CloudFormation, the execution and deployment of all the resources related to it, such as IAM roles and AWS S3 bucket policies for access, were configured.

I delivered all the components from development to production.

Audio Web App

TECHNICAL-STYLE SUMMARY
Design and implement AIOps solutions using AI/ML to automate monitoring, anomaly detection, and remediation across cloud-native environments. Integrate with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines to enable predictive insights, self-healing, and resilient operations.

EXECUTIVE-STYLE SUMMARY
Leverage AIOps to transform IT operations by reducing incidents, accelerating root cause analysis, and automating remediation. Drive operational efficiency, system reliability, and business continuity through intelligent monitoring and proactive operations.

Senior DevOps Engineer

https://loco.gg/
I worked as a DevOps Engineer on a 3-month project where I played a key role in architecting and implementing the infrastructure for a low-latency, real-time video-streaming platform. My primary focus was designing and optimizing a Kubernetes-based architecture that could support interactive streaming workloads with strict performance and latency requirements. This involved evaluating network paths, refining service communication patterns, and ensuring the platform’s components were tuned for sub-second responsiveness.

I collaborated closely with the existing DevOps and engineering teams to implement scalable cluster designs, optimize ingress and egress routing, and improve data flow for high-frequency video and event traffic. I introduced automation using Python/Bash to streamline provisioning, configuration, and deployment processes, ensuring consistent and reproducible environments across stages. Throughout the engagement, I also troubleshot networking bottlenecks, improved internal routing rules, and enhanced observability to track latency, packet flow, and real-time performance metrics.

I helped deliver a robust, scalable, and latency-optimized infrastructure foundation that significantly improved streaming reliability.

Education

2005 - 2009

Bachelor of Technology Degree in Electronics

Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology - Surat, Gujarat, India

Certifications

MARCH 2020 - MARCH 2023

AWS Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services

AUGUST 2019 - AUGUST 2022

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

CNCF

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Node.js, REST APIs, Jenkins Pipeline

Tools

Istio, Grafana, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS IAM, GitLab, Helm, Git, Terraform, Jenkins, Amazon EKS, AWS Fargate, CircleCI, Amazon CloudFront, GitHub, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Makefile, Make (formerly Integromat), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), GitLab CI/CD, NGINX, Amazon OpenSearch, VPN, Claude, Google Workspace, ELK (Elastic Stack), VMware, Instana, Logging

Languages

Bash, Bash Script, Python, Python 3, TypeScript

Paradigms

DevOps, Automation, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Development (CD), Continuous Delivery (CD), Serverless Architecture, DevSecOps, Microservices

Platforms

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, CentOS, AWS Lambda, Kubernetes, Docker, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS IoT, MacOS

Storage

Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Datadog, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Data Pipeline Service, Databases, MySQL

Frameworks

Crossplane

Other

Prometheus, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Deployment, SaaS Monitoring, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Serverless, Architecture, Autoscaling, Networking, AWS DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, Security, Cloud Monitoring, Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Cloud, DNS Configuration, Lambda Functions, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AWS Cloud Security, Observability, Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Vulnerability Management, Vulnerability Scanning, Okta, APIs, GitOps, Streaming, Web3, SOC 2, Amazon API Gateway, AWS VPN, GCP DevOps, AWS ECS Fargate, Zero Trust, Cloudflare, Cryptocurrency, API Integration, Reverse Proxy, Systems Engineering, Compliance, Scripting, Microsoft 365, OpenID Connect (OIDC), AWS CodePipeline, Amazon Route 53, Pixel, Games, API Gateways, Shell Scripting, Scalability, Video & Audio Processing, AIOps, Monitoring, Video Streaming, Low Latency, GPU Computing, NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU, Video Gaming, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, MDM, Amazon MSK

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