Dwarakan Palaniyappan

DevOps Engineer with 3+ years of experience in AWS cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, monitoring, security, and cost optimization. Certified in AWS and Azure with hands-on experience in resolving production incidents, automating cloud operations using Python, and implementing scalable, secure, and reliable cloud solutions. Experienced in infrastructure automation, deployment pipelines, monitoring, disaster recovery and operational excellence across production and non-production environments

Senior Software Engineer at Cegeka (2024-01 – Present)

• Managed AWS cloud infrastructure for production and non-production environments.
• Built and managed CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline & Azure DevOps for application deployments.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning, scaling, monitoring, and operational tasks using Python.
• Worked independently on automation initiatives and infrastructure improvement activities.
• Performed AWS cost optimization and security improvement activities across multiple environments.

Software Engineer at CTG (2023-01 – 2024-12)

• Assisted team members in troubleshooting deployment and infrastructure-related issues.
• Monitored AWS cloud infrastructure and third-party services using AWS CloudWatch, AWS Health Dashboard, and external status dashboards.
• Conducted RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for production incidents and infrastructure failures.
• Configured and managed AWS services including IAM, Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, VPC, RDS, Secrets Manager, CodeCommit, and CodePipeline.

Trainee Engineer at Eleviant (2022-01 – 2023-12)

• Learned and worked on AWS services including EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, and Elastic Beanstalk.
• Gained hands-on experience in AWS cloud operations, monitoring, and deployment activities.
• Supported manual deployment and environment setup activities.
• Assisted in monitoring AWS cloud infrastructure for production and non-production environments.