DevOps Engineer who builds infrastructure that doesn't break at 2am.

Cloud:          AWS (VPC, ECS, EKS, RDS, ElastiCache, ALB, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS, IAM, ECR)
IaC:            Terraform (modules, state management)
Containers:     Docker, ECS Fargate, Kubernetes, Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD
CI/CD:          GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, blue/green, GitOps
Languages:      Python, TypeScript, Bash
Observability:  Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Promtail, PromQL, Alertmanager, CloudWatch
Other:          Linux, Git, Nginx

Lead DevOps Engineer @ Patara Labs (Aug 2024 – Present)

Run the Sui blockchain infrastructure — Jenkins CI/CD with zero-downtime deploys at 99.9% uptime, Prometheus/Grafana monitoring across Sui Network nodes, and Rust API container builds cut from 60 minutes to 15 through multi-stage builds and layer caching.

DevOps Engineer @ Notus Labs (Jun 2023 – Jun 2024)

Built cloud infrastructure for Notus Network blockchain services. Architected the Explorer application behind AWS load balancers to 99.95% availability, and cut AWS spend 20% through right-sizing, reserved instances, and consolidation.

GitOps on EKS with Full Observability · repo → Terraform-provisioned EKS cluster, Bun/Express API deployed via custom Helm chart with ArgoCD auto-sync and self-heal. 7 custom Prometheus metrics, a 9-panel Grafana dashboard, 9 alert rules, and Loki/Promtail log aggregation with metric-to-log correlation — click a spike, see the logs from that exact window.

Serverless Event-Driven Data Pipeline · repo → Real-time pipeline across 4 Python Lambdas, API Gateway HTTP v2, DynamoDB with GSI, and SQS with a dead letter queue — 38 Terraform resources in 4 reusable modules. Async decoupling, atomic counters, conditional writes, partial batch failure handling. Runs at $3.60/month against $213 for the equivalent on EKS.

3-Tier AWS Architecture & CI/CD · repo → Production-grade ECS Fargate + RDS PostgreSQL + ElastiCache Redis in a custom VPC, 6 Terraform modules and 37 resources, with an AWS-native pipeline doing blue/green deploys and automatic rollback.

• K8s is complicated for NOTHING and I will die on this hill
• If your rollback requires a human, it's not production-grade
• Most teams reaching for EKS need a Lambda and a queue

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