Ruthvik Gowda

DevOps Engineer with 2 years of experience designing and managing cloud-native infrastructure on AWS. Proficient in Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, and monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana. Experienced in automating deployments, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, implementing cloud security best practices, and maintaining highly available, scalable environments.

Software Engineer at Design Esthetics (2023-11 – 2025-11)

• Managed AWS infrastructure ensuring high availability, scalability, and secure access management of applications.
• Received commendation for resolving critical AWS VPC and peering issues while implementing secure networking configurations using security groups and network access controls.
• Successfully added Kubernetes clusters as runners to GitLab, enhancing scalability and build performance
• Managed and maintained Kubernetes clusters, ensuring high availability and scalability for containerized applications. Implemented rolling updates and automatic scaling to accommodate increased workloads during peak usage periods.
• Designed and maintained Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD pipelines for Java-based applications using Maven, implementing automated build, test, and deployment workflows that reduced build and deployment times by 20%.
• Implemented proactive monitoring and alerting using Prometheus and Grafana, reducing system downtime by 15% and improving application observability.
• Introduced version control best practices with Git, improving code collaboration and traceability.
• Written Ansible YAML playbooks to automate remote server configuration and infrastructure provisioning.
• Configured application monitoring and alerting using Prometheus and Grafana to improve infrastructure visibility and reliability.

Bachelor of Engineering in Information Science & Engineering – The Oxford College of Engineering (2019 – 2024)