Kunal Hirwani

Cloud DevOps / Platform Engineer with 7 years of relevant hands-on experience across AWS and GCP. Focused on Terraform-based infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD automation, GitOps workflows, and Python/Bash scripting. Experienced in building modular infrastructure, standardizing deployment pipelines, automating operational tasks, and managing Kubernetes workloads.

Proven track record of converting manual operational toil into version-controlled code to improve deployment reliability and reduce cloud infrastructure costs.

Cloud Engineer - Houlihan Lokey - Gurgaon

(2022-11 - 2026-03)

• Executed resource utilization audits across GCP and AWS, optimizing lifecycle rules and instance sizing to achieve a 25% ($20,000) annual cloud cost reduction.
• Built modular Terraform templates to provision standardized GCP and AWS environments (VPCs, IAM, Compute, S3/GCS), eliminating configuration drift and cutting setup time by 60%.
• Engineered centralized, reusable CI/CD pipeline across GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps, reducing pipeline onboarding time for 10+ engineering teams by 40%.
• Implemented GitOps-based continuous deployment workflows using ArgoCD, synchronizing Kubernetes cluster states directly with version-controlled Git repositories.
• Deployed and managed containerized microservices on Kubernetes clusters, configured custom Helm charts, ingress controllers, and debugged pod and networking issues.
• Configured Prometheus and Grafana dashboards for cluster observability, setting up dynamic alerts to reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR)
• Provisioned zero-trust infrastructure integrations between AWS/GCP object storage and Snowflake data tiers using IAM service roles and bucket access policies.
• Wrote Python and Bash utilities to automate IAM user access reviews, credential rotations, and platform health checks, eliminating 10+ hours of manual operational toil per week.

DevOps Engineer - Mphasis - Remote

(2021-06 - 2022-10)

• Migrated 20+ legacy manual infrastructure provisioning workflows into automated, version-controlled Terraform modules on AWS and GCP.
• Implemented centralized CI/CD build and release templates incorporating automated compliance gates and secure secrets management.
• Configured AWS compute and storage autoscaling policies alongside proactive monitoring metrics to maintain resource utilization and system uptime.
• Managed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions, reducing deployment time by 80% and ensuring code changes reached production seamlessly.

Software Engineer - Trieffects Technologies Pvt. Ltd. - Noida

(2019-07 - 2021-05)

• Developed Python automation scripts and REST API client integrations to automate scheduled data exchange routines between local systems and cloud storage platforms.
• Assisted in deploying client applications to basic AWS EC2 instances and Linux (Ubuntu) servers, gaining foundational exposure to cloud hosting and server administration.
• Managed application source code using Git and helped standardize version control workflows for the development team.

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology - SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai