Tarun Pandey

DevOps Engineer with 3+ years of experience designing, automating, and scaling cloud-native infrastructure on AWS and GCP. Specialized in Kubernetes (EKS), GitOps with ArgoCD/Helm, Terraform IaC, and CI/CD automation with GitHub Actions and Jenkins. Track record of cutting MTTR by 40%, reducing cloud spend by 45%, and maintaining 99.9%+ platform availability.

Recognized open-source contributor (OpenMetadata, Skyflo) with hands-on observability (Grafana LGTM, Datadog APM) and multi-cloud migration experience.

DevOps Engineer at Deuex Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (2024-11 – Present)

• Led adoption of GitOps-based deployments across multi-environment AWS EKS clusters using ArgoCD and Helm, standardizing configurations for 25+ microservices to establish a consistent, scalable delivery model.
• Managed zero-downtime production EKS upgrades and nodegroup lifecycle operations; diagnosed and resolved critical AWS VPC CNI networking issues, sustaining 99.9% platform availability.
• Owned end-to-end provisioning of secure AWS infrastructure with Terraform; improved database reliability through RDS scaling, Performance Insights, and integration of External Secrets Operator (ESO) with AWS Secrets Manager.
• Architected a centralized observability platform using Grafana LGTM (Loki, Tempo, Grafana, Alloy) and Datadog APM, enabling distributed tracing and multi-tenant monitoring that reduced troubleshooting MTTR by 40%.
• Standardized GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for containerized Docker builds and ECR publishing; optimized multi-stage builds to cut image sizes by 45% and build times by 30%.
• Reduced non-production AWS compute spend by 45% through Spot-based EKS nodegroups, Compute Savings Plans, and scheduled off-hour scale-down workflows.

Associate DevOps Engineer at PayMe India (2023-08 – 2024-10)

• Engineered hybrid deployment architecture for multi-environment workloads, managing high-priority services on Kubernetes alongside legacy applications on bare-metal EC2.
• Overhauled CI/CD architecture by migrating repositories from Bitbucket to GitHub and implementing branching strategies with multi-stage security and quality checkpoints in Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
• Scripted infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, significantly reducing time-to-market for new environment spin-ups.
• Executed a zero-disruption AWS-to-GCP platform migration and maintained ongoing multi-cloud operations for critical financial services.

DevOps Intern at PayMe India (2023-03 – 2023-07)

• Developed Bash automation for log parsing and pipeline-driven health probes, recovering 40% of weekly engineering capacity and improving post-deployment availability by 25%.
• Designed Grafana and ELK dashboards for on-call teams, reducing Mean Time to Diagnose (MTTD) by 30%.

Master of Computer Applications in Computer Applications – Uttarakhand Technical University (2023)

Bachelor of Computer Applications in Computer Applications – Kumaun University (2021)