Nihal Bawankar

AWS DevOps Engineer at Capgemini with hands-on experience designing and deploying cloud infrastructure on AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, ECS, EKS, RDS) and automating end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, and ArgoCD GitOps. Demonstrated impact in production environments — reducing manual effort by 70% and deployment time by 40% through Terraform, Ansible, and containerized Kubernetes workloads. Beyond core DevOps, brings practical AI/MLOps experience having architected and deployed a 10-service MCP-based AI microservices platform on EKS, integrating an OpenAI GPT-4o tool-calling agent, IRSA/OIDC security, and platform-wide observability with Prometheus and Grafana.

AWS DevOps Engineer at Capgemini (2025-09 – Present)

• Designed and deployed AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, VPC, ECS, RDS), improving system reliability and uptime.
• Automated infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, reducing manual effort by 70%.
• Built CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI/CD, reducing deployment time by 40%.
• Implemented GitOps workflows using ArgoCD, improving deployment consistency and rollback efficiency.
• Containerized applications using Docker and deployed on Kubernetes (EKS) using Helm.
• Implemented monitoring using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana, reducing incident response time.
• Automated tasks using Python and Bash to improve system efficiency.
• Configured Nginx reverse proxy and load balancing, improving response time by 30%.
• Applied AWS security best practices (IAM, VPC, security groups)

BIW Fixture Design Engineer at NS Cube Engineering Pvt Ltd (2023-01 – 2025-09)

• Designed 15+ automotive BIW fixtures using CATIA V5, ensuring production accuracy.
• Reduced design iteration time by 20% through cross-functional collaboration.
• Improved system efficiency by resolving design issues using analytical troubleshooting.
• Created documentation improving handover efficiency by 25%

Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering – RTMNU, Nagpur (2022)