Tarun M.
Senior Application Engineer
Experience
Jul 2024 - Present
1 year 6 monthsSenior Application Engineer
SutherlandGlobal Services
- Built a cross-cloud LLM-powered Prompt Runner (FastAPI) that translates natural language into secure workflows—auto-resolving compartments and instances, handling IP SSH handoffs, and reducing runbook time by 60%.
- Built automation for Linux patching and change workflows, lowering toil and making patch windows predictable; integrated checks into pipelines for pre and post validation.
- Partnered with product teams on architecture reviews with a bottom-up focus on infrastructure, network, and HTTP paths; documented bottlenecks and hardened reliability constraints before launch.
- Drove cost and security guardrails across multiple AWS accounts with tagging, reserved and spot strategy, and IAM boundaries while maintaining availability and least-privilege access.
Sep 2023 - Jul 2024
11 monthsDevOps Lead
IdeyaLabs
- Architected highly available microservice platforms on EKS with zero-downtime deploys (blue/green and canary via ArgoCD); supported over 1 million concurrent users.
- Launched an organization-wide observability architecture with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry tracing; implemented golden signals dashboards, SLO burn-rate alerts, and runbooks for teams.
- Introduced AIOps workflows with signal correlation and anomaly alerts and auto-remediation scripts for common failures, reducing toil and paging frequency.
- Performed reliability architecture reviews with product teams; profiled hot paths with pprof and py-spy and optimized network and HTTP flows, improving throughput and cutting CDN egress.
- Optimized cloud spend with auto-scaling and spot instances, saving 30% without impacting SLOs.
- Mentored more than four engineers and onboarded new hires to site reliability engineering practices including SLOs, postmortems, and runbooks.
- Awarded the Quality Champion award for outstanding performance and dedication to project excellence.
- Winner of the internal hackathon showcasing innovative solutions in DevOps.
Sep 2022 - Aug 2023
1 yearDevOps Engineer
Thinkify Labs
- Designed and managed AWS cloud infrastructure, achieving a 45% reduction in annual costs through resource optimization.
- Implemented monitoring and alerting systems using Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch, improving system reliability by 25%.
- Developed automation scripts for deployment and scaling, reducing manual errors and improving deployment speed.
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
1 year 1 monthAssociate Software Development Engineer
Westagile Labs
- Built HIPAA-compliant cloud architecture on AWS and CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, reducing deploy times by 40% while maintaining security controls.
- Provisioned infrastructure with Terraform; standardized environments for microservices and improved recoverability with backup and restore runbooks.
Skills
- Cloud: Aws, Azure, Gcp
- Kubernetes & Containers: Kubernetes (Eks/aks), Docker
- Iac & Ci/cd: Terraform, Cloudformation, Pulumi, Jenkins, Gitlab Ci/cd, Github Actions, Argocd
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Cloudwatch, Slo/sli, Incident Response, Jmeter
- Languages & Scripting: Python, Go, Ruby, Bash
- Data Stores: Postgresql, Mysql, Dynamodb, Cosmos Db
Languages
English
AdvancedEducation
Jul 2017 - May 2021
Indian Institute of Technology Patna
Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering · Mechanical Engineering · Patna, India
Certifications & licenses
AWSCertified Solutions Architect – IDEYALABS | DEVOPS LEAD Professional
AmazonWeb Services
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
Microsoft
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