G. R. Lokesh — Senior DevOps, DevSecOps & Platform Engineer

/ About

Platform engineer, obsessed with reliability.

I'm an AWS DevOps Engineer, DevSecOps Engineer, and Platform Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing secure, scalable, and automated cloud-native infrastructure. My work spans AWS Cloud, Kubernetes, Platform Engineering, GitOps, CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, and DevSecOps, helping organizations accelerate software delivery, improve platform reliability, and operate production environments with confidence.

I've designed and managed production workloads on AWS, built end-to-end CI/CD and GitOps pipelines, automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, and deployed cloud-native applications on Amazon EKS. My focus is on creating resilient, highly available platforms that simplify operations and enable development teams to deliver software faster and more securely.

Security is embedded into every platform I build. I integrate DevSecOps practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle by incorporating automated security scanning, policy enforcement, and compliance into CI/CD pipelines. I also implement Kubernetes security best practices, including RBAC, IRSA, OIDC, Network Policies, Secrets Management, and runtime security to build secure-by-design platforms.

Beyond automation and deployment, I'm passionate about Platform Engineering and Observability. I build reliable, production-ready systems using Prometheus, Grafana, Amazon CloudWatch, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry, enabling proactive monitoring, faster incident response, and improved platform performance.

I'm always exploring modern cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes best practices, GitOps workflows, and DevSecOps strategies to build platforms that are automated by default, secure by design, and engineered for scale. Most of my work has been on enterprise production systems, and I'm always happy to discuss the architecture, engineering decisions, and challenges behind the platforms I've built.

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Years Experience

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Microservices Shipped

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CI/CD Pipelines

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Deployments

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Cost Reduction

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Uptime

/ Experience

Six years shipping cloud-native platforms.

Jul 2024 — Present

AWS DevOps Engineer

ASICS Technologies, India

Built CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions & Argo CD for 15+ microservices, cutting release time by 60%.
Implemented GitOps delivery across Dev, QA, UAT and Production EKS clusters, reducing incidents by 30%.
Embedded SonarQube, Trivy, Snyk and Checkov into pipelines for pre-deployment security gates.
Optimized workloads with HPA, Cluster Autoscaler & Karpenter — cutting AWS costs by 30%.
Deployed Istio service mesh + AWS ALB for SSL/TLS routing, improving API reliability by 30%.
Full-stack Kubernetes observability with Datadog & Alertmanager — reduced MTTR by 50%.

Sep 2021 — Jul 2024

DevOps Engineer

Larsen & Toubro Construction (L&T)

Automated build, test, security scanning and Kubernetes deploys for 20+ microservices via GitLab CI + Argo CD.
Secured Jenkins pipelines with RBAC, OIDC & HashiCorp Vault — reduced unauthorized access risk 80%.
Containerized 20+ services with Docker multi-stage builds — reduced image size 60%.
Implemented Blue-Green and Canary deployments on Kubernetes to reduce rollout risk.
Automated server config with Ansible Playbooks & Roles — 80% less manual effort.

Apr 2020 — Aug 2021

Cloud Support Associate

Progile Infotech, India

Maintained Jenkins CI/CD pipelines across QA/UAT/Prod for reliable daily releases.
Provided L1/L2 support for AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM) with high availability SLAs.
Automated backup & DR with AWS Lambda + EBS Snapshots — 70% less data loss risk.
Cut AWS cloud costs by 30% via right-sizing, Cost Explorer, and auto-shutdown automation.

/ Skills

An opinionated, production-grade toolbelt.

Cloud

AWSEKSEC2S3IAMVPCLambdaRDSRoute53ALBCloudWatchAzure

Containers

DockerKubernetesEKSHelmDocker ComposeKarpenterHPACluster Autoscaler

Infrastructure as Code

TerraformTerraform ModulesAnsible PlaybooksAnsible RolesDynamic Inventory

CI/CD

GitHub ActionsGitLab CIJenkinsArgo CDFlux CDBlue-GreenCanary

Security · DevSecOps

SonarQubeTrivySnykCheckovOWASP ZAPGitHub Advanced SecurityVaultIRSARBACOIDC

Observability

PrometheusGrafanaDatadogCloudWatchELK StackAlertmanagerLoki

Networking · Mesh

NGINX IngressIstioAWS ALBRoute53SSL/TLSVPC Peering

Automation · Scripting

PythonBashShellYAMLJinja2

Databases

PostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchDynamoDB

/ DevSecOps Pipeline

An enterprise control plane — from commit to production.

22 stages · 90+ production tools with official logos. Signed artifacts, policy-gated deploys, real-time observability. Hover any logo, click any stage.

Pipeline Success

98.7%

Avg Execution

8m 42s

Critical Vulns

0

High / Med / Low

0 · 2 · 14

Code Coverage

86%

Artifacts Signed

127

Deployments

2.5k+

Pods Running

184

Operations Center

Interactive Kubernetes Ops Console

A live, production-style view of an EKS platform — traffic, resources, security, GitOps, observability, autoscaling and cost — all reacting to real-time events. Click any tile to inspect it.

Cluster Health

99.99%

Running Pods

187

Nodes

24

CPU

50%

Memory

59%

Requests/sec

2,249

p95 Latency

23ms

Argo CD

Healthy

Falco Alerts

2

Est. Spend

$842 /mo

Chaos Simulator

Steady state

Live Traffic Flow — Users → EKS

All paths healthy

Kubernetes Resource Topology

prod-eks-01

cpu 48%mem 61%

cpu 52%mem 64%

cpu 44%mem 58%

cpu 31%mem 42%

cpu 12%mem 24%

cpu 28%mem 44%

cpu 56%mem 72%

cpu -mem -

cpu 22%mem 38%

Security & Policy Enforcement

All controls passing

Falco

Kyverno

OPA Gatekeeper

Trivy

Cert Manager

NetworkPolicy

RBAC

IRSA

Secrets Manager

Cosign

GitOps Deployment Pipeline

rev 1487·Syncing

Developer

GitHub

Pull Request

GitHub Actions

Unit Tests

SonarQube

Semgrep

Gitleaks

Docker Build

Trivy

SBOM

Cosign

Amazon ECR

Helm

GitOps Repo

Argo CD

Development

Staging

Production EKS

Observability — Prometheus · Grafana · Loki · Tempo · OTel

CPU44%

Memory64%

Req/s2200

p95 Latency29ms

Error Rate0.15%

SLO Availability99.918%

Autoscaling — HPA · Karpenter · Cluster Autoscaler

Simulated Traffic40%

HPA Pods

23

Karpenter Nodes

11

Spot Ratio

50%

Metrics ServerHPAPods↑KarpenterNodes↑Cluster Autoscaler

Cost Optimization — FinOps

Karpenter saved $312 this mo.

Monthly estimate$917

EKS Control Plane$73

Worker Nodes (EC2)$412

EBS + PV Storage$128

Load Balancers$62

Data Transfer$94

RDS Postgres$148

Spot 62%

Idle 4 pods

Rightsizing: 3 hints

/ Featured Projects

Cloud platforms in production.

AWSKubernetesTerraform

Cloud-Native Trading & Portfolio Platform

Highly available, secure, and scalable CI/CD + EKS platform for a microservices trading application.

problem Trading platform needed 99.9% uptime, zero-downtime deploys and hardened DevSecOps for 15+ microservices.

solution Architected GitHub Actions + Argo CD pipelines, Terraform-provisioned EKS/VPC/RDS/ALB, Istio service mesh, and Prometheus/Grafana observability with SonarQube, Trivy, Snyk & Checkov gates.

60% faster releases

60% fewer critical vulns

99.9% uptime under 5× peak load

45% MTTR reduction

AWSEKSGitHub ActionsArgo CDTerraformIstioPrometheusGrafanaSonarQubeTrivy

KubernetesCI/CDGitOps

IoT Smart Devices — Real-Time Monitoring

Secure, automated CI/CD + infrastructure platform for an IoT-connected smart device ecosystem.

problem 10+ IoT microservices required standardized pipelines, hardened supply chain and elastic infra.

solution Built Jenkins Shared Libraries + Argo CD with SAST/DAST/container scanning. Terraform modules with S3/DynamoDB remote state. Ansible dynamic inventory. EKS with NGINX Ingress + SSL.

40% faster releases

50% less pipeline duplication

40% smaller images

65% faster incident detection

JenkinsArgo CDDockerAnsibleTerraformEKSPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisNGINX

CI/CDAWSPlatform Engineering

Continuous Personal Health — Philips Healthcare

CI/CD automation platform to accelerate release velocity for a healthcare application.

problem Manual, drift-prone releases across Test/QA/UAT/Prod slowed engineering and increased risk.

solution Designed Jenkins pipelines with Maven/Docker/Ansible across 50+ EC2 instances, eliminating drift. Docker Hub registry, Tomcat deploys, and comprehensive runbooks.

99% build success rate

75% fewer env issues

Weekly → daily releases

20% less senior-engineer dependency

JenkinsMavenDockerAnsibleAWS EC2Tomcat

AWSSecurityMonitoring

Digital Products & Subscriptions Platform

L1/L2 operational excellence for a multi-cloud digital subscriptions platform.

problem Multi-cloud (AWS + Azure) subscriptions platform required uptime, DR and cost governance.

solution Automated backup/DR with Lambda + EBS Snapshots. Enforced IAM least-privilege + MFA. Cost governance via Cost Explorer, right-sizing and auto-shutdown scripts.

~70% less data-loss risk

25–30% monthly cost savings

30% MTTR reduction

AWSAzureLambdaIAMJiraITIL

/ Certifications