Hrushant Raghwarte

AWS DevOps Engineer with 3 years of experience building and running production cloud infrastructure for enterprise automotive software at KPIT Technologies. Sole DevOps owner for 3 products supporting 40+ engineers — IaC (AWS CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation), Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (GitLab CI/CD), Kubernetes/EKS, and DevSecOps (SonarQube, MEND). Cut release time 50%, environment setup 75%, and cloud spend ~30%, while sustaining 99% uptime with zero critical incidents in 30 months.

Works independently and coordinates cleanly across architecture, QA, and security — recognised with KPIT Excellence Award (A+).

AWS DevOps Engineer at KPIT Technologies (2023-10 – Present)

• End-to-End DevOps Ownership: Sole DevOps engineer across 3 products (40+ engineers) using AWS CDK & GitLab CI/CD — cut release cycle 50%, sustaining 20+ production releases/month.
• Cloud Architecture: Architected 20+ AWS services (EC2, Lambda, S3, IAM, RDS, ALB, CloudFront, Route 53) in a multi-account setup — zero critical incidents in 30 months.
• Infrastructure as Code: Automated 80% of deployments via AWS CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation & Ansible — cut environment setup time 75% (3 hrs → 45 min) across Dev/QA/UAT/Production.
• Containers & Orchestration: Deployed containerized microservices with Docker & Kubernetes on AWS ECR, ECS & EKS, managing lifecycle via Rancher.
• DevSecOps Integration: Embedded shift-left security via SonarQube (SAST) & MEND (SCA) in CI/CD for continuous code quality and vulnerability management.
• Identity & Secrets Management: Authored least-privilege IAM policies; managed secrets via GitLab CI/CD, Ansible Vault & AWS Secrets Manager with KMS rotation.
• Observability & Incident Response: Built centralized monitoring/alerting on AWS CloudWatch and led RCA for production incidents — cut MTTR 40%, sustained 99% uptime.
• High Availability & Disaster Recovery: Designed fault-tolerant AWS infrastructure — multi-AZ, VPC peering, Transit Gateway, EC2 snapshots, automated rollback/backup.
• Cost Optimization: Used AWS Cost Explorer to eliminate unused EC2/RDS instances and add S3 lifecycle policies — cut cloud spend ~30%.
• Generative AI Integration: Integrated an internal AI chatbot on AWS Bedrock (Claude models), extending DevOps ownership into applied GenAI tooling.
• Cross-Functional Delivery: Streamlined delivery across architects, developers, QA & Security — cut manual handoff delays 60%, earning the KPIT Excellence Award (A+).

Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology – Savitribai Phule Pune University (2019-08 – 2023-05)