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Abhinav Sampangi

Senior DevOps Engineer

📍 Austin, TX ✉️ abhinav@abhikosam.com 🔗 LinkedIn 🐙 GitHub 🌐 resume.abhikosam.com

Summary

Results-driven Senior DevOps Engineer with 7+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating cloud-native infrastructure at scale. Deep expertise in AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes. Passionate about building robust CI/CD pipelines, reducing toil through automation, and enabling development teams to ship faster and more reliably.

Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms

AWS GCP Azure

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform CloudFormation Pulumi Ansible

Containers & Orchestration

Kubernetes EKS Docker Helm ArgoCD

CI/CD

GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI CircleCI

Observability

Prometheus Grafana Datadog CloudWatch PagerDuty

Scripting & Languages

Bash Python Go HCL

Security & Compliance

IAM AWS Secrets Manager Vault OPA Trivy

Networking

VPC Route53 CloudFront ALB/NLB VPN

Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer Jan 2022 – Present
CloudScale Technologies · Austin, TX (Remote)
  • Architected and maintained a multi-account AWS landing zone using Terraform modules, reducing provisioning time from 3 days to under 2 hours.
  • Designed Kubernetes-based microservices platform on EKS serving 50M+ requests/day with 99.99% availability.
  • Built GitOps workflow using ArgoCD + GitHub Actions, enabling continuous deployment across 12 microservices with zero-downtime rollouts.
  • Reduced AWS monthly spend by 34% through Reserved Instance purchasing, right-sizing, and Spot Fleet integration.
  • Implemented centralized observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) with custom alerting, cutting MTTR from 45 min to 8 min.
  • Led SOC 2 Type II compliance initiative, automating evidence collection and audit trails via AWS Config and Security Hub.
DevOps Engineer Mar 2019 – Dec 2021
FinTech Dynamics · Dallas, TX
  • Migrated legacy monolith from on-premise to AWS, containerising 8 services with Docker and deploying on ECS Fargate.
  • Designed blue-green and canary deployment strategies reducing production incidents by 60%.
  • Created self-service Terraform modules for EC2, RDS, and VPC provisioning, adopted by 5 engineering teams.
  • Implemented Vault for secrets management, eliminating hardcoded credentials across all environments.
  • Established SLA-driven alerting with PagerDuty integration and on-call rotation processes.
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Jul 2017 – Feb 2019
Innovatech Solutions · Hyderabad, India
  • Automated server provisioning using Ansible playbooks, reducing manual setup from 4 hours to 15 minutes.
  • Built Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines for Java and Node.js applications with automated test gates.
  • Managed Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu) fleet of 200+ servers, maintaining 99.9% uptime SLA.
  • Set up centralised logging with ELK stack processing 5GB of logs daily.

Notable Projects

Platform Engineering — Internal Developer Portal

Built a self-service developer portal on top of Backstage, integrating with Terraform Cloud, GitHub, and Datadog. Reduced new service onboarding from 2 weeks to same-day via golden-path templates.

BackstageTerraformGitHub ActionsEKS

Zero-Trust Network Architecture

Designed and implemented a zero-trust networking model using AWS PrivateLink, VPC endpoints, and Tailscale, eliminating public internet exposure of internal services.

AWS VPCPrivateLinkTailscaleIAM

Cost Optimisation Automation

Wrote Python Lambda functions and EventBridge rules to automatically stop non-production resources outside business hours, saving $12K/month in AWS costs.

PythonLambdaEventBridgeCost Explorer API

Education

B.Tech — Computer Science

JNTU Hyderabad
2013 – 2017

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect Professional

Amazon Web Services
Issued 2023 · In view

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Issued 2022 · Active

HashiCorp Terraform Associate

HashiCorp
Issued 2021 · Active

AWS DevOps Engineer Professional

Amazon Web Services
Issued 2020 · Active