Darshana Wankhede

DevOps Engineer with 1+ year of experience managing multi-cloud Kubernetes clusters across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premise environments. Reduced application latency by 30% via CloudFront optimization at Thinkitive. Proficient in GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Kargo), CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions, Jenkins), and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible). Currently pursuing CKA certification (expected September 2025).

DevOps Engineer at Katonic.ai (2025-05 – Present)

• Managed 10+ Kubernetes clusters across AWS, Azure, GCP, airgapped, and on-premise environments; handled end-to-end platform installation and configuration ensuring high availability and security.
• Single-handedly planned and executed production-grade replacement of MinIO with SeaweedFS, integrating 12 dependent services including vector data (Milvus), knowledge base, and observability delivering a fully self-hosted, open-source storage solution.
• Developed a shell script for client environment validation, executing 19 compatibility checks in parallel across Ubuntu, RHEL-based, and airgapped environments (storage, taints, labels, network connectivity, node-to-node communication, domain reachability) with structured pass/fail summary logs reducing manual verification from hours to 10 minutes.
• Led Velero-based backup and restoration strategy with Longhorn storage, reducing potential data recovery time significantly across multi-cloud setups.
• Implemented Prometheus-based monitoring and OpenCost for cloud cost visibility, enabling data-driven decisions on resource optimization.
• Enforced Kubernetes network policies to restrict pod-to-pod communication, strengthening cluster security and network isolation across all environments.
• Integrated SonarQube into CI/CD pipelines for automated static code analysis, shifting vulnerability detection earlier in the development lifecycle.
• Implemented ArgoCD and Kargo for GitOps-based continuous delivery, maintaining cluster configuration drift to near-zero across all environments.
• Authored Ansible playbooks to automate configuration management and application deployments, eliminating repetitive manual operational tasks across clusters.

AWS DevOps Intern at Thinkitive (2025-02 – 2025-05)

• Automated CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions and integrated AWS CloudFront, improving application performance by 30% through reduced latency.
• Developed RDS backup automation scripts and configured CloudWatch monitoring with SNS alerts, enabling real-time incident response and improving data resilience.
• Implemented and managed CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps for streamlined build and release workflows across multiple services.
• Automated SOC 2 compliance controls, evidence collection, and audit readiness using the Drata platform, reducing manual compliance overhead.

AWS DevOps Intern at Techfellow (2024-11 – 2025-01)

• Provisioned and managed core AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC) and deployed applications via Elastic Beanstalk and Lambda for scalable, serverless workloads.
• Configured CloudWatch alarms, SNS notifications, and IAM roles; integrated AWS Cognito for API authentication and AWS WAF for web application security.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and built CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins; orchestrated containerized workloads using Kubernetes (EKS) and Docker.

Bachelor of Computer Applications in Computer Applications – Modern College of Business Administration (2024)

Masters of Computer Applications in Computer Applications – IMCC (2026)