AVAILABLE FOR HIRE · AUSTRALIA

Vaikunthan

I build production-grade Kubernetes platforms, secure CI/CD pipelines, and AWS infrastructure for regulated environments like banking and financial services. I turn manual ops work into Terraform, pipelines, and Python.

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engineer.yaml

apiVersion: careers/v1
kind: PlatformEngineer
metadata:
  name: vaikunthan
  location: sydney-australia
  labels:
    status: available
    roles: [devops, mlops, platform, sre]
spec:
  certifications: [aws-saa, cka, rhcsa]
  core: [aws, kubernetes, terraform]
  cicd: [gitlab-ci, jenkins, azure-devops]
  observability: [prometheus, grafana, datadog]
  replicas: 1  # one of a kind

Projects

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Experience

pipeline: 2018 → now

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Mar 2024 - Present · Sydney, Australia

IT Support Engineer @ QSL

Diagnosed and resolved hardware faults across 200+ Chromebook units per week.
Hardware testing with Blancco, Windows 10/11 imaging, secure data erasure on refurbished devices.
Windows Server, SQL Server, VMware, Active Directory, Office 365.

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Jun 2023 - Sep 2023 · Sydney, Australia

Production Support Engineer @ DataMesh Group

AWS production support for a payments platform, improving uptime by 15% and cutting incident response times by 20%.
Monitoring with Splunk, root cause analysis, preventive fixes.
Stack: AWS, Akamai, Imperva WAF, HSM (FutureX, Thales), Jira.

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Nov 2021 - Mar 2023 · Remote, Sri Lanka

DevOps Engineer @ BlackSwan Technologies

AWS and Azure infrastructure with CloudFormation and Terraform, improving resource utilisation by 20%.
CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Azure DevOps, cutting deployment times by 25%.
ECS, VPC, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, Cognito, CloudWatch.

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Jul 2020 - Nov 2021 · Remote