Samarth Sharma

DevOps engineer experienced in building and operating cloud-native infrastructure on AWS using Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD automation. Skilled in designing scalable environments, implementing IAM security controls, and optimizing managed cloud services.

DevOps Subject Matter Expert (SME) at Scaler Academy (2025-12 – Present)

• Designed and maintained 10+ hands-on DevOps labs using AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform, and Ansible, enabling users to deploy and operate production-style cloud infrastructure.
• Designed Kubernetes environments showcasing Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) behavior under load, enabling scalable infrastructure demonstrations for concurrent workloads.
• Engineered IAM guardrails using permission boundaries, explicit deny policies, and resource-level restrictions across 100+ AWS lab accounts to enforce least privilege and prevent unauthorized resource provisioning.
• Proposed cost-optimization strategies for AWS Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) labs, including environment scheduling and resource right-sizing, reducing idle infrastructure costs by an estimated 30–40%.

Product Engineer Intern - DevOps at X.Arterian (2025-03 – 2025-10)

• Optimized Docker images across 10+ microservices, reducing size by 45% using multi-stage builds and dependency pruning.
• Provisioned and managed 15+ cloud resources using Terraform across AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, and MongoDB Atlas.
• Built infrastructure automation for domain onboarding by integrating AWS ACM certificate issuance, Cloudflare DNS validation, and Kubernetes ALB Ingress.
• Developed 10+ GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines enabling automated testing, container builds, and zero-downtime deployments.
• Managed GitHub organizations, repositories, teams, and branch protections using Terraform to standardize access control and repository governance.

Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology – Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (2021-12 – 2025-07)