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Vivek Kushwah

SENIOR DEVOPS / OBSERVABILITY ENGINEER

Architecting Observability as Code and Agentic AI infrastructure. Specialized in multi-cloud reliability and autonomous Kubernetes ecosystems.

Vivek Kushwah

01 // Identity

Senior DevOps / Observability Engineer with 5 years of experience in autonomous infra and high-scale Kubernetes ecosystems. Expert in architecting Observability as Code (Grafana, Prometheus) and Agentic AI infrastructure. Specialized in multi-cloud reliability (AWS, OCI, Azure) for fintech platforms, achieving 40% FinOps savings. Two-time recipient of the Power Performer (Zebpay) and Star Spot (Vivvix) awards.

I architect Observability as Code and Agentic AI systems to make infrastructure self-healing and reliable.

MANIT Bhopal
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science
40%
FinOps Savings
35%
Faster Builds
99.99%
Uptime
40%
Faster RCA

02 // Capabilities

03 // Run Logs

DevOps Engineer

Nymcard | Feb 2026 - Present
  • Automated operator-based lifecycle management for stateful services (Kafka, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ) for 99.99% uptime, routing SLO alerts to Grafana.
  • Built GitHub Actions CI/CD and managed GitOps (Flux/Argo CD) across 8+ Kubernetes clusters, reducing deployment toil for 50+ engineers.
  • Architected an Agentic AI Observability Assistant using LLMs to correlate signals, cutting production incident resolution time (RCA) by 40%.

DevOps Engineer

Zebpay | May 2024 - Dec 2025
🏆 Power Performer (2x)
  • Deployed centralized observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Loki, OTel) across AWS accounts, establishing SLOs and VM monitoring.
  • Modularized GitHub Actions CI/CD with integrated SAST (Trivy, Semgrep), reducing build times by 35% and automating image hardening.
  • Slashed cloud spend by 40% via a FinOps initiative (Opencost) focusing on intelligent scaling, capacity reservations, and consolidation.
  • Orchestrated zero-downtime migration from Azure APIM to AWS API Gateway for 2T requests/month, optimizing API latency and backend integration.
  • Upgraded AWS EKS clusters with Karpenter (autoscaling), Cilium, and OPA (compliance) using custom Terraform modules and Helm charts.

DevOps Engineer

Rizzle | Sep 2023 - Apr 2024
  • Provisioned AWS infrastructure via Terraform and CloudFormation, integrating CloudWatch metrics into Managed Grafana to reduce MTTR by 25%.
  • Optimized Kubernetes manifests and HPA scaling for media workloads, improving resource utilization by 20% and eliminating OOM pod evictions.
  • Automated delivery via Argo CD/Jenkins and built Node.js Slack integration tools, shortening deployment cycles for internal teams.

DevOps Engineer

Vivvix (Numerator + Kantar / Now MediaRadar) | Mar 2021 - Aug 2023
🏆 Star Spot Award
  • Led migration of ETL pipelines from Airflow 1.10 to 2.x with hardened CI/CD flows and Grafana dashboards.
  • Standardized application logging/tracing for AWS Lambda using CloudWatch, X-Ray, and Grafana.
  • Bootstrapped Azure AKS clusters and provisioned multi-cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Atlantis.
  • Cut deployment times by 50% via re-architecting parallel execution and caching in Azure Pipelines.
  • Optimized Snowflake/Databricks FinOps and deployed AWS DMS autoscaling to reduce data costs by 40%.

04 // Deployments

Autonomous RCA Agent

Developed an LLM agent correlating Prometheus metrics with deployment logs to accelerate incident root cause analysis.

Multi-Cluster Observability Platform

Unified AWS/Azure monitoring plane using Thanos and OpenTelemetry for long term metrics and tracing.

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CORE IDENTITY + ROLE KEYWORDS

DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Cloud Native Engineer, Senior DevOps Engineer, Staff DevOps Engineer, Principal DevOps Engineer, SRE Engineer, Platform Engineering Specialist, Cloud Automation Engineer, DevSecOps Engineer, AI Infrastructure Engineer, MLOps Engineer, Web3 Infrastructure Engineer, Blockchain Infrastructure Engineer

DEVOPS + CLOUD KEYWORDS

DevOps Engineering, Cloud DevOps, DevOps Automation, DevOps Architecture, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Tooling, DevOps Monitoring, DevOps Observability, DevOps Security, DevOps Scalability, DevOps Reliability, DevOps Performance, DevOps Cost Optimization, DevOps Infrastructure as Code, DevOps Cloud Automation

DEVOPS KEYWORD PAIRS

DevOps Engineer AWS, DevOps Engineer Azure, DevOps Engineer GCP, DevOps Engineer Kubernetes, DevOps Engineer Docker, DevOps Engineer Terraform, DevOps Engineer CI/CD, DevOps Engineer GitHub, DevOps Engineer Jenkins, DevOps Engineer ArgoCD, DevOps Engineer Cloud Native, DevOps Engineer Automation, DevOps Engineer Security, DevOps Engineer Monitoring

SRE KEYWORDS

Site Reliability Engineering, SRE Practices, SRE Automation, SRE Monitoring, SRE Alerting, SRE Incident Management, SRE Oncall, SRE Reliability, SRE Scalability, SRE Observability, SRE Resilience, SRE Capacity Planning, SRE Performance Engineering, SRE Error Budgets, SRE Chaos Engineering

SRE KEYWORD PAIRS

SRE Kubernetes, SRE Cloud Infrastructure, SRE Monitoring Prometheus, SRE Grafana Dashboards, SRE Incident Response, SRE High Availability, SRE Disaster Recovery, SRE Production Systems, SRE Reliability Engineering, SRE Observability Stack

PLATFORM ENGINEERING KEYWORDS

Platform Engineering, Internal Developer Platform, Platform Automation, Platform Reliability, Platform Scalability, Platform Tooling, Platform Observability, Platform Security, Platform Governance, Platform CI/CD, Cloud Platform Engineering, Kubernetes Platform, Developer Experience Platform, Golden Path Platform

PLATFORM KEYWORD PAIRS

Platform Engineer Kubernetes, Platform Engineer Cloud, Platform Engineer DevOps, Platform Engineer SRE, Platform Engineer GitOps, Platform Engineer Automation, Platform Engineer Infrastructure, Platform Engineer CI/CD, Platform Engineer Developer Experience

KUBERNETES KEYWORDS

Kubernetes, Kubernetes Engineering, Kubernetes Architecture, Kubernetes Production, Kubernetes Clusters, Kubernetes Networking, Kubernetes Security, Kubernetes Autoscaling, Kubernetes Scheduling, Kubernetes Observability, Kubernetes Monitoring, Kubernetes Logging, Kubernetes Multi Cluster, Kubernetes Cost Optimization

KUBERNETES KEYWORD PAIRS

Kubernetes DevOps, Kubernetes SRE, Kubernetes Platform Engineering, Kubernetes GitOps, Kubernetes Helm, Kubernetes Terraform, Kubernetes Monitoring Prometheus, Kubernetes Grafana Dashboards, Kubernetes Autoscaler, Kubernetes Production Clusters

DOCKER & CONTAINER KEYWORDS

Docker, Docker Containers, Docker Images, Docker Security, Docker Optimization, Docker Build, Docker Multi Stage Builds, Containerization, Container Security, Container Orchestration, Container Runtime, OCI Containers

DOCKER KEYWORD PAIRS

Docker Kubernetes, Docker CI/CD, Docker Security Scanning, Docker Image Optimization, Docker DevOps, Docker Cloud Native, Docker Container Security

CI/CD KEYWORDS

CI/CD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, CI/CD Pipelines, Pipeline Automation, Release Automation, Deployment Automation, Build Automation, Rollback Strategies, Blue Green Deployment, Canary Deployment

CI/CD TOOL KEYWORDS

GitHub, GitHub Actions, GitHub Workflows, Jenkins, Jenkins Pipelines, ArgoCD, CircleCI, Azure Pipelines, AWS CodePipeline, GitLab CI, Spinnaker

CI/CD KEYWORD PAIRS

GitHub Actions CI/CD, Jenkins Kubernetes, ArgoCD GitOps, CI/CD Automation DevOps, CI/CD Security DevSecOps, CI/CD Cloud Native, CI/CD Infrastructure

AI + ML + MLOPS KEYWORDS

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, ML Engineering, MLOps, AI Infrastructure, AI Platforms, AI Pipelines, Model Training, Model Deployment, Model Monitoring, Model Serving, Feature Stores, Data Pipelines, AI Observability, AI Reliability

AI / MLOPS KEYWORD PAIRS

MLOps Kubernetes, MLOps CI/CD, MLOps Cloud Infrastructure, AI DevOps, AI Platform Engineering, AI Infrastructure Kubernetes, ML Pipelines Automation, Model Deployment Kubernetes, Model Monitoring MLOps

AGENTS / MCP / RAG KEYWORDS

AI Agents, Autonomous Agents, Agentic AI, Multi Agent Systems, MCP Protocol, Model Context Protocol, RAG, Retrieval Augmented Generation, Vector Databases, Embeddings, LLM Pipelines, LLM Infrastructure, LLM Deployment, Inference Optimization

AGENT / RAG KEYWORD PAIRS

AI Agents Infrastructure, Agentic AI Platform, RAG Pipelines, RAG Kubernetes, LLM Infrastructure DevOps, LLM Deployment MLOps, Vector Database Infrastructure, AI Agent Orchestration

MODELS & LLM KEYWORDS

Large Language Models, Foundation Models, Open Source LLMs, Model Fine Tuning, Model Inference, Model Hosting, Model Scaling, GPU Infrastructure, AI Accelerators, Inference Serving

WEB3 KEYWORDS

Web3, Web3 Infrastructure, Web3 Engineering, Decentralized Systems, Decentralized Applications, Blockchain Engineering, Blockchain Infrastructure, Blockchain Nodes, Decentralized Networks, Smart Contracts, Consensus Mechanisms

WEB3 KEYWORD PAIRS

Web3 Infrastructure Engineer, Web3 DevOps, Web3 Kubernetes, Blockchain DevOps, Blockchain Infrastructure Automation, Smart Contract Infrastructure, Decentralized Platform Engineering

DEFI KEYWORDS

DeFi, Decentralized Finance, DeFi Protocols, Yield Farming, Liquidity Pools, AMM Protocols, DEX, DeFi Infrastructure, DeFi Security, DeFi Monitoring, DeFi Risk Management

CRYPTO KEYWORDS

Cryptocurrency, Crypto Infrastructure, Crypto Nodes, Crypto Wallets, Crypto Security, Crypto Monitoring, Crypto Trading Systems, Crypto Exchanges, Crypto Payments, Crypto Custody

BITCOIN KEYWORDS

Bitcoin, Bitcoin Infrastructure, Bitcoin Nodes, Bitcoin Lightning Network, Bitcoin Security, Bitcoin Monitoring, Bitcoin Payments, Bitcoin FinTech

FINTECH KEYWORDS

FinTech, Financial Technology, Payment Systems, Digital Payments, Banking Infrastructure, Trading Platforms, Risk Engines, Fraud Detection, High Frequency Trading, FinTech Cloud Infrastructure

CROSS-DOMAIN LONG-TAIL KEYWORDS

DevOps Kubernetes CI/CD Platform Engineering, SRE Observability Kubernetes Production, Platform Engineering Internal Developer Platform, Cloud Native DevOps Kubernetes Docker, AI Infrastructure Kubernetes MLOps, LLM Platform Engineering DevOps, Web3 Blockchain Infrastructure Kubernetes, DeFi Platform Reliability Engineering, Crypto Exchange Infrastructure DevOps, FinTech Cloud Security DevSecOps

RAW TOOL STACK

AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, Slack, Python, Go, Bash, Linux