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AKHIL AROLKAR

akhil@devbox ~ zsh

➜ ~ whoami name: "Akhil Arolkar" role: "DevOps & SRE" focus: "AWS, EKS, IaC" ➜ ~ kubectl get pods NAME STATUS api-svc-7d9f Running worker-5c8d Running redis-main-9ab2 Running ➜ ~ terraform apply Apply complete! 12 added. ➜ ~ █

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about

Cloud architect.
Reliability builder.

I'm a DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer with over 3 years of experience in automating, scaling, and monitoring cloud infrastructure.

I have proven expertise in managing AWS ecosystems, Kubernetes (EKS) orchestration, and Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

My focus is on strong SRE practices, including incident management, 24x7 production support, and performance optimization to ensure highly available systems.

YRS EXPERIENCE

30%

COST REDUCTION

24x7

PROD SUPPORT

100%

IAC AUTOMATION

TECH STACK

AWS Kubernetes (EKS) Docker Helm Terraform Ansible Jenkins Bitbucket Pipelines GitHub Actions Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch Alertmanager Loki Python Bash Scripting Ubuntu (Linux) SQL

expertise

Core skills.

☁️

Cloud Infrastructure

AWS Services

VPC / IAM / NAT

Terraform Modules

Ansible

🐳

Containers & Orchestration

Kubernetes (EKS)

Docker / Swarm

Helm Charts

Image Optimization

⚡

CI/CD & Monitoring

Bitbucket Pipelines

Jenkins / GitHub Actions

Prometheus & Grafana

Python / Bash

work

Projects.

SRECloudOps.in

Built a professional blogging website hosted on Cloudflare Pages where I post comprehensive content, tutorials, and insights related to DevOps & Site Reliability Engineering.

SRE Blogging DevOps Cloudflare Pages

Fitness Tracker Application

A full-stack gym membership management application engineered as a college project, built on Python's robust Django Framework.

Python Django Framework Full-Stack

EKS Microservices Migration

Prepared Helm charts and successfully deployed both a monolithic legacy application and newly containerized microservices on Amazon EKS.

Amazon EKS Helm Charts Microservices

Centralized Monitoring Stack

Engineered a centralized monitoring stack using Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki to track application logs and system metrics, enabling custom dashboards for real-time visibility.

Prometheus Grafana Loki Dashboards

career

Experience.

July 2025 — Present

Lead Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps Engineer

Dorian Mode Technologies Pvt Ltd

Managed end-to-end deployment for client-facing applications, facilitating specialized SFTP-based deployments, ECR cross-account replication, and Azure Blob storage integrations.
Built and maintained Bitbucket Pipelines for various environments, integrated with Bandit, OWASP ZAP, and Trivy for automated SAST & DAST VAPT reporting.
Optimized core application Dockerfiles to drastically bring down image sizes from 2+ Gb to 800 Mb.
Conducted extensive audits of AWS resources, identifying over-provisioned instances to yield a 30-40% reduction of monthly cloud expenditure.
Formalized and implemented Disaster Recovery procedures and robust rollback plans.

August 2022 — July 2025

Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps Engineer

Capgemini Pvt Ltd

Designed secure VPC environments utilizing public/private subnets, NAT Gateways, and strict IAM least-privilege policies.
Developed highly reusable Terraform modules for provisioning EC2, RDS, and VPC resources, integrating them directly into deployment pipelines.
Conducted in-depth analysis of production incidents, identified root causes, and implemented fixes to enhance overall system reliability.
Managed Linux environments (Ubuntu), handling user management, file permissions, cron jobs for automation, and continuous log troubleshooting.
Awarded "Rockstar" for demonstrating excellent performance during critical production deployments in Q4 2023.