Sameer Katre

DevOps Engineer with production-grade ownership of AWS EKS clusters, Terraform infrastructure, and AI-integrated CI/CD pipelines. Built and shipped HotelKey Kiosk — an AI-powered guest self-service product live across 100+ hotel properties. Integrated AI code review into Bitbucket pipelines using LLM-based tooling.

Promoted from intern to full engineer in under 6 months. Combines deep cloud engineering (EC2, EKS, RDS, VPC, IAM, Route 53, ALB/NLB) with hands-on AI product delivery and a track record of measurable infrastructure improvements.

DevOps Engineer - HotelKey

(2025-06)

Hospitality SaaS platform · AWS EKS production environment · AI product delivery

• Built and shipped HotelKey Kiosk — an AI-powered guest self-service product deployed live across 100+ hotel properties for front-desk automation, reducing manual check-in time and serving real guests at scale.
• Integrated AI-powered code review into Bitbucket CI pipelines — using LLM-based tooling to automatically flag code quality issues, security antipatterns, and misconfigurations on every pull request before human review, reducing defect escape rate to QA.
• Cut deployment lead time by ~40% by consolidating 3 separate Jenkins pipeline configurations into a unified multienvironment CI/CD workflow with Bitbucket, Bamboo, and Argo CD — reducing manual handoffs to zero.
• Eliminated 100% of manual infrastructure provisioning for EC2, VPC, IAM roles, S3 buckets, and EKS clusters by authoring reusable Terraform modules, cutting environment spin-up from ~4 hours to under 20 minutes.
• Reduced MTTD for production incidents by 60% by engineering a unified observability layer across Datadog, CloudWatch, and Splunk — including custom dashboards, log pipelines, and alert routing for critical EKS workloads.
• Achieved zero unplanned downtime during 6 major production releases by implementing Kubernetes rolling update strategies, HPA autoscaling policies, and pre-release RDS/Postgres schema validation checks on the live environment.
• Secured a 3-environment AWS footprint by enforcing least-privilege IAM roles, VPC segmentation, and ECR image scanning — bringing infrastructure posture into compliance ahead of a planned enterprise client audit.

DevOps Intern → DevOps Engineer - HotelKey

(2025-01 - 2025-06)

Promoted to full engineer in under 6 months based on production impact

• Containerized 4 legacy services from bare-metal to Docker + EKS deployment templates, directly enabling the team's first Kubernetes-based production release.
• Reduced new-developer environment setup time by 70% by authoring standardised runbooks and deployment documentation adopted across dev and ops teams.
• Delivered 15+ multi-environment deployments via Jenkins + Bitbucket pipelines with zero rollback incidents during the internship period.
• Provisioned foundational AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC) for 2 new staging environments in under 3 days, unblocking a QA cycle delayed by 2 weeks.

B.Tech - Information Technology - G.H. Raisoni College of Engineering (GHRCE) (2022-01 - 2025-05)