Devam Parikh
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevSecOps Engineer and Developer
Rajkot, Gujarat, India
Toptal member since May 8, 2025
Devam is a Certified Site Reliability and DevSecOps Engineer who specializes in building and optimizing cloud-native infrastructures across AWS, GCP, and Azure. He leverages Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Crossplane, Argo CD, and GitOps to automate CI/CD pipelines, enforce security best practices, and drive cost-efficient, highly available deployments. Committed to teamwork and constant improvement, Devam will be a great addition to any team.
Portfolio
Experience
- Kubernetes - 4 years
- Argo CD - 4 years
- Terraform - 4 years
- Crossplane - 4 years
- Helmfile - 4 years
- Python - 4 years
- AWS DevOps - 4 years
- GitOps - 4 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Argo CD, Kubernetes, Crossplane, Terraform, Helmfile, Kyverno, Go, Istio, AWS CLI, Python
The most amazing...
...project I've delivered involved automating seamless Kubernetes upgrades across 100+ clusters with Crossplane, achieving zero downtime and 40% cost savings.
Work Experience
DevSecOps Engineer
Flexera
- Substituted AWS IAM user credentials with Kubernetes service-account roles across 100+ pods, eliminating secret rotation overhead and reducing credential-related incidents by 100%.
- Implemented GitOps practices with Argo CD and Helmfile, reducing deployment failures by 30% and ensuring environment consistency.
- Automated Kubernetes upgrades for 100+ clusters with Crossplane, cutting manual intervention by 80% and standardizing cluster configurations.
- Developed disaster-recovery solutions in Terraform for AWS services, reducing recovery time objectives by 60% and improving system resilience.
- Rolled out GitHub Actions for code- and image-scanning, elevating defect detection by 70% and halving vulnerability remediation time.
- Executed blue-green EKS cluster upgrades from version 1.23 to version 1.28 using Terraform and Ansible with zero customer impact and 0% service downtime.
- Orchestrated RDS, ElastiCache, and OpenSearch migrations across multiple virtual private clouds (VPCs), achieving zero downtime and boosting query performance by 30%.
- Implemented New Relic and Opsgenie monitoring with automated alerting, improving mean time to respond (MTTR) by 50% and maintaining 99.9% system uptime.
- Migrated an infrastructure from Cluster AutoScaler to Karpenter autoscaling, reducing infrastructure costs by 40% while sustaining application throughput.
- Pioneered AI-driven anomaly detection using predictive analytics, reducing unplanned outages by 20%.
Experience
Cross-account Kubernetes Platform with Crossplane and Terragrunt
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology
Gujarat Technological University - Gujarat, India
Certifications
Certified Argo Project Associate
The Linux Foundation
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Amazon Web Services
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
The Linux Foundation
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Terragrunt
Tools
Terraform, Helmfile, AWS CLI, Helm, AWS IAM, Istio, Prisma, AWS CloudFormation
Frameworks
Crossplane
Paradigms
Agile Software Development
Platforms
Kubernetes, Azure
Languages
Python, C++, Java, Bash Script, Go
Other
Argo CD, AWS DevOps, GitOps, CI/CD Pipelines, Argo Workflows, Kyverno, Algorithms, Networking, FinOps
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