Kartik Pathak

Data and Cloud DevOps Engineer with 6+ years of experience building scalable data infrastructure and automating cloud deployments on AWS. Hands-on with ETL/ELT pipelines, data warehousing (Redshift), data lakes (S3/Glue), and streaming (Kafka), combined with strong DevOps skills in Terraform, Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, and CI/CD. Proficient in Python and SQL, with a track record of improving data reliability, cutting deployment time, and supporting analytics and engineering teams end to end.

Comfortable in client-facing, Agile environments.

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer - Priority IDC Private Limited - Chandigarh, India

(2021-12)

• Built scalable data infrastructure on AWS using Glue, Redshift, Kafka, and RDS, enabling faster and more reliable analytics workflows for downstream business and analytics teams.
• Designed and maintained ETL/ELT workflows to ingest structured and unstructured data into Redshift and S3-based data lakes, improving data availability for reporting.
• Replaced legacy Amazon EMR (Spark/Hadoop) batch pipelines with Fivetran-based ingestion, improving data synchronization efficiency and reducing pipeline maintenance overhead.
• Modeled and optimized Redshift data warehouse schemas and queries (SQL) to improve query performance and reporting turnaround.
• Integrated AWS databases with Datadog to improve data-platform observability and reduce Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) for incidents.
• Implemented immutable backups and recovery for databases using Rubrik, strengthening data protection and integrity.
• Architected and maintained AWS infrastructure (VPCs, subnets, Transit Gateways, routing, compute) as code using Terraform, integrated with Jenkins pipelines for full-stack IaC automation.
• Automated provisioning with Terraform and CloudFormation, reducing environment setup time by ~30% and minimizing manual errors.
• Deployed and operated Kubernetes (EKS) workloads with Docker and Helm, improving resource utilization and uptime across production.
• Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy) for deployment and configuration management, improving release consistency and reducing deployment failures.
• Migrated multiple AWS accounts across organizations, owning networking, security, IAM, and production workloads end to end.
• Led modernization to Amazon Linux 2023 and Java 17 across EC2 fleets, improving stability, performance, and security posture.
• Led AWS identity migration to IAM Identity Center via Authentik with SAML-based SSO, optimizing IAM permission sets and policies.
• Integrated SailPoint CIEM with AWS to strengthen identity governance and cloud security visibility.

Linux Admin / DevOps Engineer - Wipro Ltd - India

(2019-07 - 2021-11)

• Streamlined application deployments through GitLab and Jenkins pipelines, accelerating release cycles.
• Containerized legacy applications and migrated them to Kubernetes, improving scalability and resource utilization.
• Automated cloud stack creation with CloudFormation to reduce configuration drift and improve reproducibility.
• Built and optimized private cloud infrastructure on VMware, improving compute efficiency.
• Implemented centralized monitoring and logging with Splunk, Elasticsearch, and Grafana, improving observability and reducing MTTR.
• Automated server configuration with Ansible, cutting manual errors and improving consistency.

Master of Engineering - Computer Science - UIET, Panjab University, Chandigarh (2022 - 2024)

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science - Chandigarh University, Mohali (2015 - 2019)