Nithin Babu

Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience designing, automating, and optimizing highly available cloud infrastructure and cloud-native platforms. Experienced in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK), Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, CI/CD, Cloud Security, Infrastructure Automation, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Proven expertise in Python automation, observability using Amazon CloudWatch, Grafana, and Prometheus, and cloud cost optimization (FinOps), achieving a 75% reduction in cloud spend and a 35% improvement in MTTR.

Skilled in leveraging Amazon Bedrock (Claude), Claude Code, and AI-assisted development workflows to accelerate infrastructure automation, Terraform development, cloud operations, and engineering productivity.

Platform Engineer at Infoblox (2023-10 – Present)

• Architected and scaled high-availability private cloud infrastructure, deploying continuous production-grade configuration changes supporting 200+ distributed workloads and empowering 150+ concurrent engineers with zero-downtime environments.
• Engineered robust observability and telemetry pipelines utilizing Grafana, InfluxDB, and Prometheus, explicitly defining Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to reducing MTTR by 35%.
• Authored Python automation scripts deployed via AWS Lambda to systematically reduce operational toil, optimizing cloud resource allocation and achieving a 75% reduction in annual cloud expenditure.
• Implemented declarative Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and managed Azure CI/CD deployment pipelines, increasing environment consistency and accelerating configuration cycle times by 60% through automated Azure devops workflows.
• Enforced OS, network, and cloud-level hardening controls aligned with CIS benchmarks and least-privilege RBAC policies, significantly improving overall production reliability, security posture, and audit readiness.
• Leveraged Amazon Bedrock (Claude), Claude Code, and Gemini CLI to accelerate infrastructure automation, Python development, Terraform module generation, cloud troubleshooting, and log analysis, improving engineering productivity.

Network Administrator (Devops) at Shellsquare Software (2022-04 – 2023-10)

• Engineered complex automated provisioning workflows utilizing Python, Bash, and Terraform, reducing production deployment cycle times by 97% for distributed containerized workloads on VMware ESXi and cloud environments.
• Executed deep OS-level performance tuning, kernel patching, and proactive capacity planning across fleet-wide Linux environments, establishing robust baseline metrics and improving overall system reliability by 30%.
• Maintained and optimized CI/CD delivery pipelines, collaborating cross-functionally with development teams to enforce zero-downtime deployment strategies and reduce production release failures.
• Resolved network-layer incidents across DNS, DHCP, VLANs, and cloud VNet components, reducing infrastructure-related incidents by 40% through systematic root-cause analysis and blameless post-mortems.
• Managed VMware ESXi cluster operations including provisioning, patching, and resource optimization, ensuring consistent uptime for production-grade virtualized workloads.

Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering – CUSAT University