AVINASH NANDHYALA | DEVOPS ENGINEER
(314)-326-9295 |[email protected] |linkedin.com/in/avinash-nandhyala-60785b1b1
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
DevOps Engineer, American Express, Atlanta, GA Jan 2025 – Present
• Designed and deployed end-to-end CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) for microservices on AWS EKS,
accelerating release cycles by 60%.
• Automated cloud infrastructure provisioning using Terraform for VPCs, IAM, ALB, Route53, and multi-region deployments.
• Engineered GitOps workflows with ArgoCD for multi-environment Kubernetes deployments, improving release safety and
rollback capabilities.
• Integrated Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager for real-time monitoring, enhancing system resilience and SLO
adherence.
• Used AWS CloudFormation alongside Terraform in hybrid IaC use cases to provision EC2, RDS, and S3 resources.
• Used GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT to streamline Terraform module creation and automate Kubernetes manifest generation.
• Designed and deployed AWS Lambda-based automation scripts for lightweight backend tasks, reducing EC2 dependency
and lowering operational costs.
Cloud and DevOps Mentor– Teaching Assistant, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO Aug 2025 – Dec 2025
• Developed and delivered hands-on labs for Terraform, EKS, and CI/CD, bridging academic learning with real-world cloud
practices.
• Delivered foundational instruction on core networking concepts including TCP/IP, DNS, and TLS—leveraging tools like
Wireshark and packet tracing to demonstrate practical troubleshooting techniques.
• Incorporated generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot into hands-on labs to enhance development efficiency
in scripting and infrastructure-as-code workflows.
• Fostered collaboration, critical thinking, and practical problem-solving among students in emerging technologies.
System Engineer – DevOps, Virtusa, Chennai July 2022 – Aug 2023
• Built CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitLab, reducing manual deployment errors by over 70%.
• Designed and provisioned cloud-native architectures on Azure (AKS, Load Balancers, Blob Storage) using Terraform and
ARM Templates.
• Implemented CloudWatch Alarms and ELK Stack to improve log aggregation, alerting, and visibility for Azure and AWS hybrid
workloads.
• Administered and maintained EC2 instances with hardened AMIs; automated provisioning using Terraform and
configuration management via Ansible.
• Implemented IAM user and group policies using AWS IAM and Okta to enforce least-privilege access controls.
DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer, Vraio Software Solutions, Bangalore Nov 2019 – June 2022
• Implemented CI/CD automation with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, achieving 80% reduction in deployment errors.
• Built and maintained Terraform modules for AWS EKS, RDS, IAM, VPC, standardizing infrastructure across multiple projects.
• Developed Bash/Python scripts to monitor application health and backend database response times, supporting rapid root
cause identification.
• Deployed and managed AWS services including EC2, S3, IAM, and RDS across multiple client projects, ensuring secure and
reliable service integrations.
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
Master of Science in Computer Information Science – Saint Louis Aug 2023- May 2025
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate | Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Azure, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, ARM Templates
• DevOps & CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD, Helm, Kustomize
• Containers & Monitoring: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, AKS), Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch
• Networking & Security: TCP/IP, DNS, HTTPS, ALB/NLB, Route53, IAM, TLS, Okta
• Scripting & Tools: Python, Bash, Git, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot
