Mani M.

About Me

Senior DevOps Engineer with 10 years of experience designing scalable cloud platforms, automating infrastructure, and operating production-grade Kubernetes and AWS environments. Specialized in IaC, GitOps, cost optimization, security hardening, observability, and platform engineering. Known for building reusable architecture patterns, improving developer velocity, and driving organization-wide DevOps maturity.

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Database

DevOps

Workflow

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Work history

Stratosphere IT Services Pvt. Ltd
Senior DevOps Engineer
2024 - 2026 (2 years)
Remote
  • Reduced AWS EKS costs by 30% through infrastructure cleanup and optimization.

  • Planned and standardized architecture and application deployment patterns across the organization.

  • Automated EKS cluster bootstrapping and provisioning using Karpenter for efficient autoscaling.

AWS EKSKubernetesAWS DataSync Karpenter
Harness Inc
Staff Implementation Engineer
2023 - 2024 (1 year)
Remote
  • Collaborated with multiple teams to analyze CI/CD pipelines and deploy scalable Kubernetes clusters on AWS and GCP.

  • Managed hybrid cloud environments and tuned Kubernetes workloads for a 10% performance improvement.

  • Designed optimized Harness setups ensuring scalability and seamless integration across environments.

CI/CD Pipelines KubernetesAWSGCPHarness GithubVault
Shoptrue Inc
Senior Software Engineer
2022 - 2023 (1 year)
Remote
  • Enhanced Kubernetes clusters, MySQL, Redis, and overall performance tuning achieving 15% cost reduction.

  • Managed Istio security policies and Cloudflare WAF to protect against DDoS and web attacks.

  • Developed customized cronjobs handling timezone-specific client scheduling in a SaaS environment.

KubernetesMySQLRedisIstioCloudflare WAF Argo CD CI/CD Pipelines
Cogknit Semantics
Senior DevOps Engineer
2021 - 2022 (1 year)
Remote
  • Introduced Ansible for configuration management reducing initial server setup time by 40%.

  • Automated infrastructure and monitoring using Terraform, Prometheus, and Grafana.

  • Strengthened audit and compliance posture with centralized policy enforcement and logging.

Emgage Inc
DevOps Engineer
2020 - 2021 (1 year)
Remote
  • Identified application bottlenecks using APM tools improving performance and stability.

  • Reduced cloud expenditure through targeted optimization recommendations.

  • Improved security through SIEM integrations and introduced Vault for secret management.

Cogknit Semantics
DevOps Engineer
2016 - 2020 (4 years)
Remote
  • Deployed the company's product to primary customer environments on Windows servers.

  • Redesigned architecture from monolithic to microservices improving performance and delivery timelines.

  • Implemented Docker and Docker Swarm for container orchestration and high availability.

Education

Education
B-Tech in Information Technology
Dr. N.G.P Institute of Technology
2012 - 2016 (4 years)
Education
Docker Certified Associate (DCA)
Docker
Education
CI, CD, FF - Developer/Admin/Expert
Harness
Education
CKA, CKAD, CKS
Kubernetes
Education
Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
AWS