Akash Yadav

Senior DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and site reliability engineering. Proven track record of deploying and managing 1000+ microservices on Kubernetes, optimizing cloud costs, and implementing robust CI/CD pipelines. Specialized in AWS cloud architecture, container orchestration, infrastructure as code, cloud security compliance, and building scalable, highly available systems.

Certified in AWS Solutions Architecture and Kubernetes Application Development (CKAD).

Senior DevOps Engineer - Spinny - Gurugram, India

(2026-03)

• Integrated code coverage reporting and automated test case execution for application code into DeployHub, the in-house CI/CD platform, strengthening quality gates across all deployments
• Reduced NAT Gateway and EBS throughput costs by implementing SOCI (Seekable OCI) lazy loading for container images in Amazon EKS clusters
• Migrated log collection from Promtail to Grafana Alloy ahead of Promtail's deprecation, ensuring uninterrupted log ingestion across all environments
• Implemented SNI-based routing on OpenEverest, enabling teams to securely access databases from local machines over VPN
• Configured Envoy Gateway to replace the AWS ALB controller across all ingress traffic, migrating workloads from ALB to NLB for improved performance and cost efficiency
• Remediated AWS security findings to improve the CIS Benchmark compliance score from 30% to 70%
• Eliminated Docker Hub rate-limit failures by enforcing Kyverno policies that redirect image pulls through an Amazon ECR pull-through cache

Senior DevOps Engineer - Hiver - Bengaluru, India

(2024-10 - 2026-03)

• Designed and implemented high-availability Kubernetes clusters, deploying and managing 400+ microservices using Helm charts with zero-downtime deployments
• Managed production Apache Kafka clusters on AWS MSK and Kubernetes, optimizing broker configurations, partitioning strategies, replication, and retention policies for high-throughput messaging
• Provisioned and configured AWS cloud services (EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, ASG, VPC, Route53, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudFront) to support scalable infrastructure
• Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and GitHub Actions with ArgoCD for GitOps-based deployment automation
• Built custom metric exporters to integrate with Prometheus and Datadog for comprehensive observability and monitoring
• Optimized Kubernetes resource utilization through auto-scaling, Karpenter, and Cluster Autoscaler implementation
• Reduced cloud cost using AWS Cost Explorer and Cast.ai for continuous cost monitoring and optimization
• Enhanced security posture with AWS Security Hub, WAF, IAM best practices, RBAC, and network policies in Kubernetes
• Centralized identity management by integrating AWS SSO across multiple accounts and services
• Deployed ELK stack for centralized logging and participated in on-call rotation for production support

DevOps Engineer - Battery Smart - Gurugram, India

(2023-08 - 2024-10)

• Led Infrastructure as Code (IaC) migration to Terraform, improving infrastructure scalability, consistency, and auditability
• Deployed and managed Kafka on AWS MSK and Kubernetes using Helm and Operator-based configurations
• Automated Kafka infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, including MSK clusters, brokers, security groups, and IAM roles
• Built and maintained highly available Kubernetes clusters with zero-downtime upgrades and disaster recovery readiness
• Orchestrated deployment of 200+ microservices using Helm, driving adoption of containerization with Docker and Kubernetes
• Established robust CI/CD pipelines optimizing release cycles and ensuring high-quality software delivery
• Implemented observability stack using Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and CloudWatch for real-time monitoring
• Centralized log management using Grafana Loki, improving diagnostics and reducing mean time to resolution
• Contributed to OKR formulation for DevOps strategy and drove cost optimization initiatives across all environments

DevOps Engineer - Delhivery - Gurugram, India

(2021-02 - 2023-08)

• Designed, provisioned, and managed AWS multi-account infrastructure supporting mission-critical applications
• Spearheaded Infrastructure as Code adoption using Terraform, transitioning from legacy CloudFormation stacks
• Built highly available Kubernetes clusters with optimized resource utilization and disaster recovery capabilities
• Deployed 500+ microservices using Helm and Devtron, implementing auto-scaling for efficient resource management
• Engineered CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Devtron, enabling faster and more reliable software releases
• Designed and deployed containerized applications using ECS with Fargate and EC2 launch types with auto-scaling policies
• Led cost optimization initiatives: right-sized EC2 instances, implemented S3 lifecycle policies, utilized RDS Reserved Instances and Spot Instances
• Built custom Grafana dashboards for infrastructure and application performance monitoring, improving incident response
• Implemented centralized logging with Loki and Coralogix, developing alerting mechanisms for faster incident detection
• Strengthened security with AWS Security Hub, WAF, and automated compliance checks

DevOps Intern - ValueMomentum - Hyderabad, India

(2020-08 - 2021-01)

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science - Rajasthan Technical University (2016 - 2020)