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Naresh Kumar R

Chennai

Summary

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 3.4+ years of experience designing, deploying, and managing secure, scalable AWS solutions for 3-tier applications. Proficient in IaC with Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps methodologies. Consistently collaborate within Agile frameworks to deliver resilient, cost-efficient cloud solutions, demonstrated by a 15% reduction in infrastructure costs through optimization. Passionate about automation and high availability.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Cloud Engineer

HTC Global Services
02.2022 - Current
  • Reduced cloud costs by 15% through proactive AWS resource management (S3, API Gateway, Lambda, EC2, EBS, RDS) and bi-weekly cloud resource optimization meetings.
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning, reducing manual effort by 20%, utilizing Terraform for AWS deployments and S3-hosted static websites with CloudFront, Route 53, and ACM.
  • Accelerated project delivery by 15% and improved code quality by integrating SonarQube into CI/CD pipelines for static code analysis and vulnerability scanning.
  • Reduced server-related incidents by 10% and improved response time by 20% by implementing proactive monitoring and alerting with CloudWatch and SNS for Lambda failures and unauthorized RDS SSH attempts.
  • Maintained 99.9% production uptime by troubleshooting Linux server incidents, administering disk partitions, and enhancing system performance by 20%.
  • Boosted operational efficiency by 15% through strategic orchestration of daily stand-ups using Jira (Scrum), ServiceNow ITSM, and GitLab, while mentoring junior engineers.
  • Enhanced system reliability and scalability by architecting and deploying high-availability 3-tier cloud applications with Application Load Balancers (ALB) on EC2.
  • Developed and deployed scalable serverless API solutions using API Gateway and Lambda (Python), featuring multi-stage environments and CRUD operations.
  • Ensured data integrity and message order through event-driven architectures with SQS FIFO queues and Lambda functions.
  • Designed and managed secure VPC networking, configuring private/public subnets, route tables, and NACLs.
  • Optimized Linux server performance, cutting operational costs by 15% through proactive monitoring of CPU, disk space, and load balancing.
  • Partnered with onsite stakeholders to design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure for a SaaS application, achieving 99.9% uptime and improving response times by 15% through optimized scalability and high-availability solutions.



Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science And Engineering

VELTECH HIGHTECH Dr RR & Dr SR ENGINEERING COLLEGE
Chennai, India
10-2020

Skills

  • Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Route 53, ACM, WAF, SQS, DynamoDB, Glue, API Gateway, EBS, EFS ,Auto scaling)
  • Programming Languages: Python, Bash Scripting
  • Infrastructure as Code & Automation: Terraform, Ansible, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Bash Scripting
  • Linux & Server Management: Ubuntu, RedHat, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Apache, Nginx , PostgreSQL
  • Monitoring & Optimization: CloudWatch,Cloutrail, SNS, Cost Management, SonarQube
  • Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, ECS,ECR
  • Collaboration Tools: Jira, ServiceNow ITSM, GitLab, scrum board Agile Methodologies

Certification

Aws Certified Solutions Architect Associate

KEY PROJECT

IDP Education - SaaS Platform & Website

Developed and optimized a fully managed, event-driven SaaS product with a low-latency static website.

  • Architected & deployed low-latency static website using CloudFront and Route 53.
  • Implemented serverless backend with Aurora Serverless v2 (PostgreSQL).
  • Designed AWS Lambda Layers for lightweight, high-performance functions.

Ford Manufacturing - Data Lake Analytics POC 

Led a Proof of Concept (POC) for an S3-based data lake to enable efficient manufacturing data analysis.

  • Designed & implemented S3 Data Lake for scalable raw data ingestion.
  • Utilized AWS Glue Crawlers for automated schema discovery.
  • Leveraged AWS Glue for ETL, enabling data-driven insights.

State Farm Health Insurance - Incident Management & Cost Optimization

Managed critical production incidents, ensured system stability, and optimized costs.

  • Managed 10+ critical production incidents/month, ensuring timely resolution and stability.
  • Implemented S3 Lifecycle policies for significant cost savings.
  • Automated daily SLA reports, tracking performance and identifying breaches.

Timeline

Cloud Engineer

HTC Global Services
02.2022 - Current

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science And Engineering

VELTECH HIGHTECH Dr RR & Dr SR ENGINEERING COLLEGE
Naresh Kumar R