Shashank Sinha, Developer in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Shashank Sinha

Bio

Shashank is a senior DevOps, cloud, and security engineer with 13+ years of experience. He builds Kubernetes platforms at scale (AKS/EKS/GKE), Terraform IaC for multi-cloud environments, and DevSecOps pipelines integrating SAST, SCA, and compliance automation. Shashank has led SOC 2 compliance engineering, attack surface management at scale, and FinOps initiatives, reducing Azure spend by 37%.

Portfolio

Freelance Clients
Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware vCloud...
Al Tayer Group
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Grafana, Cloudflare...
StarzPlay
Mesos, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jenkins, Selenium, ELK (Elastic Stack)...

Experience

  • DevOps - 10 years
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 10 years
  • AWS Certified Solution Architect - 8 years
  • Docker - 8 years
  • Terraform - 8 years
  • Kubernetes - 7 years
  • Jenkins - 6 years
  • GitHub Actions - 2 years

Preferred Environment

Linux, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Docker, DevOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Python, Bash, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Amazon EKS

The most amazing...

...thing I've built is an AppSec automation pipeline (Chariot to Bugcrowd to Jira) that triaged 400+ findings across 24 teams, cutting manual effort by 80%.

Work Experience

Cloud Architect

2021 - PRESENT
Freelance Clients
  • Migrated and managed 50+ applications on AWS, GCP, and Azure.
  • Assisted large-scale enterprise and eCommerce companies in taking advantage of cloud, microservices, and agile migrations.
  • Helped implement and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation.
  • Contributed to developing scalable, reliable, secure, and supportable products.
  • Assisted clients in developing and setting up a DevOps toolchain as per the requirements.
  • Helped define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems.
  • Triaged 400+ attack surface findings across 24 engineering boards using Chariot; built automation pipeline (Tines, Bugcrowd, Slack, Jira), reducing manual triage effort by 80%.
  • Led SOC 2 compliance remediation across 40+ critical items, including auth bypass risks, hardcoded credential elimination, and container security hardening on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
  • Deployed full observability stack (OTEL Collector, Grafana, Tempo, Loki, Prometheus, Sentry) on Kubernetes; achieved 82% reduction in Sentry noise across microservices platform.
  • Reduced Azure cloud spend from $47,500 to under $30,000 per month through finops analysis, right-sizing, and reserved capacity planning.
Technologies: Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware vCloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Cloudflare, Terraform, Packer, Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, Ansible, Ansible Tower, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, AWS DevOps, Infrastructure, PostgreSQL, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, AWS Cloud Architecture, Containerization, Containers, AWS Cloud Computing Services, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), GitHub, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Cloud Security, Automation, Kubernetes Security, Cloud, Database Administration (DBA), IT Security, Infrastructure Automation, Self-hosted, On-premise, REST APIs, API Gateways, Continuous Delivery (CD), Cloud Infrastructure, Docker Compose, Scripting, LLM Integration

DevOps Lead

2018 - 2021
Al Tayer Group
  • Designed highly scalable AWS architecture for eCommerce websites, such as GAP and Mamas & Papas. Ensured infrastructure was PCI compliant and helped achieve and maintain other compliances.
  • Implemented AWS Spot Fleet with Kubernetes to make infrastructure more resilient. Helped manage AWS infrastructure for four major eCommerce websites in the Gulf region, including GAP, Nisnass, Ounass, and Mamas & Papas.
  • Helped teams find bottlenecks on websites by identifying slow third-party calls. Implemented Dynatrace, an APM solution for end-to-end user activity tracking. Wrote a shared library in Jenkins using Groovy DSL for CI/CD.
  • Collaborated with a project manager on a technical project plan with timelines. Migrated live websites across Kubernetes clusters. Reduced AWS costs by using optimal resources as per usage and improved Ansible playbooks for configuration management.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Grafana, Cloudflare, DevOps Engineer, DevOps, Helm, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Linux Server Administration, Bash, Cloud Services, System Administration, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Microservices, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Leadership, Amazon RDS, Datadog, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Identity & Access Management (IAM), Cloud Migration, Architecture, Cloud Architecture, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Security, Networking, Monitoring, Microservices Architecture, AWS DevOps, Infrastructure, PostgreSQL, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, Containerization, Containers, AWS Cloud Computing Services, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), GitHub, Platform Engineering, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Cloud Security, Automation, Kubernetes Security, Cloud, Database Administration (DBA), IT Security, Infrastructure Automation, API Gateways, Continuous Delivery (CD), Redis, Continuous Integration (CI), Cloud Infrastructure, Docker Compose, Scripting

DevOps Engineer

2017 - 2018
StarzPlay
  • Deployed and maintained Spring Boot microservice architecture on Apache Mesos clusters. Maintained infrastructure based on AWS, enabling and helping teams to adopt CI using Jenkins.
  • Automated Selenium testing using CI and log analysis using ELK. Implemented customized Grafana graphs to visualize metrics using Prometheus and InfluxDB.
  • Acted as a chef for configuration management and deployment using Terraform. Used Docker containers for microservices.
Technologies: Mesos, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jenkins, Selenium, ELK (Elastic Stack), Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB, Chef, Terraform, Docker, DevOps Engineer, Linux Server Administration, Bash, Cloud Services, Ansible, System Administration, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Microservices, Spring Cloud, Amazon RDS, Datadog, CircleCI, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Identity & Access Management (IAM), Architecture, Cloud Architecture, AWS Cloud Architecture, Networking, Monitoring, Microservices Architecture, AWS DevOps, Infrastructure, PostgreSQL, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, Jenkins Job DSL, Amazon EC2, Containerization, Containers, AWS Cloud Computing Services, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), GitHub, AWS Cloud Security, Automation, Cloud, Database Administration (DBA), IT Security, Infrastructure Automation, On-premise, Continuous Delivery (CD), Redis, Continuous Integration (CI), Cloud Infrastructure, Docker Compose, Scripting

Senior Development Engineer

2015 - 2017
MasterCard
  • Provisioned and deployed using tools like Vagrant, Chef, Packer, and Terraform. Conducted TDD using KitchenCI and Serverspec. Created software stacks using DevOps tooling and Windows images using Packer.
  • Designed and implemented CI pipelines using Jenkins. Managed the in-house private cloud as per standards. Worked in an Agile environment, collaborating across multiple teams. Tracked progress and bugs using Rally and Jira.
  • Integrated microservices using Docker in the dev environment and for TDD. Created a Dockerized application and POC on Mesosphere, a cloud-native DC/OS for creating a hybrid environment within the organization.
Technologies: Vagrant, Chef, Packer, Terraform, Jenkins, Agile, Rally, Jira, Docker, Test-driven Development (TDD), CI/CD Pipelines, Linux Server Administration, Bash, Cloud Services, Security, System Administration, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure, Amazon EC2, Automation, Cloud, Infrastructure Automation, Self-hosted, On-premise, Continuous Delivery (CD), Redis, Continuous Integration (CI), Cloud Infrastructure, Docker Compose, Scripting

DevOps Engineer

2014 - 2015
Talentica
  • Introduced automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using tools using Chef.
  • Participated in on-call rotations to respond to critical incidents and provide 24/7 support for production systems.
  • Collaborated closely with development teams to troubleshoot issues and optimize application performance.
Technologies: Apache Kafka, Advertising, NGINX, Infrastructure, Amazon EC2, AWS Cloud Computing Services, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Automation, Cloud, Continuous Integration (CI), Cloud Infrastructure, Scripting

Technical Consultant

2012 - 2014
Fujitsu Consulting
  • Collaborated with developers to optimize application performance and scalability through code and architecture improvements.
  • Helped clients achieve PCI and SOC2 compliances in different projects.
  • Implemented and maintained automated deployment and testing systems to ensure reliable and consistent application updates.
  • Helped set up guidelines for Linux server hardening provided to multiple customers/clients.
  • Participated in on-call rotations to respond to critical incidents and provide 24/7 support for production systems.
Technologies: Linux, System Administration, Monitoring, PCI DSS, SOC 2, Infrastructure, Scripting

Experience

Automotive Company

Build a primary platform across all our groups and other suppliers. I helped with the following:

• Built and improved CI/CD tooling and helped developers with CI configurations.
• Managed CI for automated testing of all environments.
• Managed CD for automated cross-region deployment to multiple environments

Role: DevOps engineer

LLM Platform Observability on Kubernetes

Designed and deployed a full-stack large language model (LLM) observability platform on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for an AI-powered code analysis product. The platform provides end-to-end visibility into LLM behavior, latency, token usage, and error rates across all AI inference pipelines.

Integrated Langfuse (open-source LLM observability) with the existing OTEL Collector, Grafana, Tempo, Loki, and Prometheus stack to create a unified observability layer spanning both infrastructure and AI model layers. Resolved a critical multi-tenant Loki misconfiguration that had silently dropped logs for multiple teams for over six weeks. Reduced Sentry alert noise by 82% through intelligent grouping, enabling engineers to focus on genuine incidents. Built custom Grafana dashboards for LLM latency percentiles, token cost tracking, and trace correlation between model requests and infrastructure events.

The platform now serves as the observability foundation for all AI workloads, enabling data-driven prompt optimization and SLA enforcement for LLM endpoints.

STACK
Langfuse, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Tempo, Loki, Prometheus, Sentry, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Kubernetes, Helm.

Grocery eCommerce Platform

Acted as the senior DevOps engineer for an eCommerce platform personalized for grocery retailers. Helped developers by providing them with ephemeral testing environments, implementing and improving platform stability and availability.

AI-powered DevSecOps Automation with Claude MCP

Built an AI-powered DevSecOps automation platform integrating Claude AI's Model Context Protocol (MCP) with enterprise security tooling to eliminate manual toil across the software delivery lifecycle.

CORE COMPONENT
• An AI agent that reads SonarQube blocker issues, generates targeted code fixes using large language models (LLMs), and automatically opens pull requests, cutting code quality remediation effort by over 80%. The agent understands code context, applies language-appropriate fixes, and routes findings through a structured review workflow.

SECOND COMPONENT
• Automated attack surface triage pipeline (Chariot scanner to Tines to GitHub ownership lookup to Jira and Bugcrowd routing) that processed 400+ security findings across 24 engineering teams, replacing weeks of manual triage with fully automated routing and ticket creation.

Built as a reusable Claude skill framework deployable across any engineering org. Represents the next evolution of DevSecOps: AI agents handling routine security toil autonomously.

STACK
Claude MCP, Python, SonarQube API, GitHub API, Jira API, Tines, Bugcrowd, Chariot.

Distributed Ordering Platform: Scalable Infrastructure & High-fidelity Staging

I led the design and implementation of a distributed ordering platform infrastructure for a restaurant-tech startup, which processes millions of transactions per month. The project involved architecting a scalable, cloud-agnostic infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Terraform and Ansible, provisioning Kubernetes clusters, managed databases, and messaging layers. I built a high-fidelity staging environment that mirrored production, allowing for testing of integrations with over 40 POS systems and 70+ 3rd-party ordering services. I implemented end-to-end monitoring and alerting to achieve 99.99% uptime and optimized cloud resources to reduce monthly spend by 20%. This work improved release confidence, accelerated deployment cycles, and enabled remote teams across four continents to collaborate effectively.

Certifications

OCTOBER 2023 - OCTOBER 2026

AWS Certified Security – Specialty

AWS

DECEMBER 2021 - DECEMBER 2023

Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)

The Linux Foundation

NOVEMBER 2021 - NOVEMBER 2024

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

AWS

MAY 2020 - MAY 2023

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

The Linux Foundation

MAY 2020 - MAY 2023

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

The Linux Foundation

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Jenkins Job DSL, Node.js, REST APIs

Tools

Jenkins, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), GitHub, AWS CloudTrail, Docker Compose, Terraform, Grafana, Ansible, Helm, Amazon EKS, CircleCI, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), NGINX, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), AWS Fargate, Mesos, ELK (Elastic Stack), Chef, Vagrant, Packer, Rally, Jira, Ansible Tower, SonarQube

Paradigms

DevOps, Automation, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), Microservices, Microservices Architecture, DevSecOps, Agile, Test-driven Development (TDD), Scrum

Platforms

Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2, AWS Cloud Computing Services, Azure, New Relic, AWS Lambda, Langfuse, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Apache Kafka

Storage

Amazon S3 (AWS S3), On-premise, Datadog, PostgreSQL, Redis, InfluxDB, Database Administration (DBA)

Languages

Python, Bash

Frameworks

Selenium

Other

DevOps Engineer, CI/CD Pipelines, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), AWS Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure, Containerization, Containers, Platform Engineering, Kubernetes Security, Cloud, Infrastructure Automation, Cloud Infrastructure, GitHub Actions, Linux Server Administration, Prometheus, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Cloud Services, Security, System Administration, Leadership, Amazon RDS, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Cloud Migration, Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Security, Networking, Monitoring, PCI DSS, SOC 2, VMware vCloud, AWS DevOps, AWS Cloud Security, Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), IT Security, Artificial Intelligence (AI), GitOps, Self-hosted, API Gateways, AI Agents, Agentic AI, Zero Trust, AI Agent Orchestration, AI Development, Scripting, LLM Integration, Cloudflare, Spring Cloud, Advertising, Governance, Documentation, Communication, Security Automation, OpenTelemetry, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Prompt Engineering, Agentic AI Systems

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