Tarun Kush

DevOps & MLOps Engineer with experience building cloud-native CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes platforms, and end-to-end machine learning deployment workflows. Skilled in AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, KServe, SageMaker, Jenkins, Terraform, and Python. Hands-on experience deploying scalable ML inference services, implementing MLOps best practices, infrastructure automation, and production-grade monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana.

Strong networking background (CCNA) with expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and operational reliability.

Graduate Engineer Trainee (DevOps Engineer) at NEC Corporation Pvt Ltd. (2025-09 – Present)

• Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins + ArgoCD + GitHub Actions) and authored Helm charts for multi-environment rollouts, reducing manual deployment steps by 83%; embedded DevSecOps shift-left controls (Trivy, SonarQube, OWASP) intercepting 23 pre-production vulnerabilities
• Managed and supported production-grade, high-availability AWS cloud infrastructure – provisioned EKS clusters using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform modules, Ansible playbooks) with Auto Scaling (HPA, Cluster Autoscaler) and load balancing (ALB/NLB), cutting provisioning time by 87%
• Deployed Prometheus / Grafana / ELK Stack for monitoring and performance bottleneck identification, enabling sub-5-min incident detection and supporting disaster recovery runbooks with RTO under 30 min
• Implemented cloud security best practices including IAM least-privilege policies and AWS Secrets Manager for credential rotation, contributing to $180K/year in cost optimization

NOC Engineer at Aerial Telecom Services (2025-04 – 2025-08)

• Performed day-to-day incident management, problem management, and root cause analysis (RCA) for multi-vendor outages, reducing MTTR by 18% – directly applicable to on-call DevOps workflows and SLA enforcement in cloud-native environments
• Maintained observability dashboards tracking latency, jitter, and packet loss across BGP, MPLS, and carrier Ethernet networking components
• Orchestrated seamless B2B service migrations with zero downtime through rigorous pre-cutover validation and parallel-run strategies; utilized BMC Remedy, MetaSolv, and terminal emulators for enterprise-grade ticketing and change management workflows

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science – Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University (2020-08 – 2024-08)