Navin Prasad Kumar
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Toptal member since May 1, 2023
Navin is a Cloud FinOps and DevOps engineer with 9+ years of experience across AWS and Azure. He helps enterprises optimise cloud costs through automation, CI/CD expertise, and strong engineering collaboration. At Adobe, he has delivered $5M+ in verified cloud savings by converting deep technical insights into measurable business impact. He brings deep hands-on experience in building CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes platforms, and cloud governance at enterprise scale.
Portfolio
Experience
- Azure - 7 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 7 years
- Docker - 7 years
- Continuous Delivery (CD) - 5 years
- Continuous Integration (CI) - 5 years
- Terraform - 4 years
- Kubernetes - 4 years
- FinOps - 4 years
Work Experience
Cloud FinOps Engineer
Adobe
- Achieved $600,000 in savings by optimizing AWS EC2 on-demand and dedicated hosts, along with snapshot cleanup.
- Implemented Azure VM right-sizing and unused resource cleanup strategies, saving around $300,000.
- Applied lifecycle policies to Azure storage blobs, leading to $400,000 in savings.
- Reduced storage costs by $400,000 by migrating data from on-premises storage to AWS FSx using DataSync jobs.
- Saved $200,000 by replacing AWS NAT Gateway with VPC peering for Artifactory.
- Designed and evaluated Azure Cost Anomaly Detection POCs, helping define future automation strategy for FinOps at scale.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Amadeus
- Migrated Jenkins service from an on-premise virtual machine (VM) to Azure Kubernetes cluster.
- Implemented a rate limit feature using NGINX for a JFrog Artifactory service. It prevents DDoS attacks.
- Built an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline in Jenkins to facilitate the deployment of a Node.js web application while leveraging Terraform to assist with infrastructure provisioning.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Wipro
- Wrote an Ansible playbook to automate software installation, reducing lead time by 70%.
- Set up and managed 30+ Debian and CentOS-based VMs in AWS and Azure.
- Cut AWS cloud costs by around $400, i.e., 20%, by selecting appropriate infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) workloads and eliminating unnecessary and underutilized VMs.
- Slimmed down Jenkins Docker image size by 20%, reducing build time.
Project History
Jenkins Migration
Education
Nano Degree in CyberSecurity
Udacity - Online
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering
Anna University | K.S.R College of Engineering - Tiruchengode, India
Certifications
FinOps Certified FOCUS Analyst
FinOps Foundation
FinOps Certified Engineer
FinOps Foundation
Terraform Associate (003)
Hashicorp
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
The Linux Foundation
Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
Microsoft
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft
Skills
Tools
Ansible, Jenkins, Tableau Desktop, Helm, NGINX, Terraform, Artifactory, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Tableau
Platforms
Docker, Azure IaaS, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, OpenShift
Paradigms
Continuous Integration (CI), Azure DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CD)
Languages
Python
Other
Electronics, Cloud FinOps, AWS FinOps, Cloud Cost Management, FinOps, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Cloud, Security, Cybersecurity Operations, Agentic AI
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