Saillesh Somasundaram

Built Python PAT governance service via GitLab REST API auditing 80+ subgroups, enforcing policies and auto remediating PROD misconfigurations via Kubernetes CronJob, eliminating credential incidents and weekly manual audits Engineered idempotent Python/GitLab RBAC provisioning service integrated into GitLab CI via API trigger with ELK audit logging; reduced access provisioning SLA from 1+ hour to sub-10 seconds and eliminated all manual permission errors Built Python runner fleet management service for 60+ CI runners with dependency mapping and stale-runner detection; deployed Ansible remediation across 15 Linux VMs monthly, reducing CI/CD pipeline failure rate by 40%

DevOps Engineer Co-op at Symcor Inc. (2025-09 – Present)

• Built Python PAT governance service via GitLab REST API auditing 80+ subgroups, enforcing policies and auto remediating PROD misconfigurations via Kubernetes CronJob, eliminating credential incidents and weekly manual audits
• Engineered idempotent Python/GitLab RBAC provisioning service integrated into GitLab CI via API trigger with ELK audit logging; reduced access provisioning SLA from 1+ hour to sub-10 seconds and eliminated all manual permission errors
• Built Python runner fleet management service for 60+ CI runners with dependency mapping and stale-runner detection; deployed Ansible remediation across 15 Linux VMs monthly, reducing CI/CD pipeline failure rate by 40%
• Enforced DevSecOps gates with SonarQube SAST and secret scanning across 40+ pipelines, blocking high-severity CVEs pre-production

Quality Automation Engineer Co-op at OmniaBio (2024-08 – 2024-12)

• Built SOC2/GMP-compliant Python/MySQL/pandas data lineage pipeline with 12 automated CI quality gates pre-deployment, cutting compliance audit prep by 15+ hr/week
• Developed Python/FastAPI integration layer connecting 3 legacy LIMS systems to internal analytics dashboard, eliminating 24-hour batch refresh latency and replacing all manual QA reporting workflows

Data Analyst Co-op at PepsiCo Inc. (2023-01 – 2023-04)

• Optimized Azure Databricks/Azure SQL pipelines and schemas across 3 ML feature systems, cutting query execution times by 60% and reducing cloud compute costs via schema and compute config refactoring

Embedded Systems Engineer at UWAFT (2022-09 – 2023-01)

• Architected distributed Docker simulation environment across 10-node cluster for parallel perception model testing; engineered real-time telemetry pipeline processing 10 GB+/hr sensor data with Prometheus alerting under P99 latency constraints
• Implemented C++ Kalman filter sensor-fusion module fusing LiDAR + camera inputs on the vehicle perception stack, reducing obstacle detection false-positive rate on highway-speed scenarios

Bachelor of Science, Honours in Physics (Co-op) – University of Waterloo (2021-09)