Experience

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Senior DevOps Engineer @ Avail Project

Dubai (Remote)

Aug 2024 — Present
  • Built a custom Prometheus cost exporter and Grafana dashboards for DigitalOcean, identifying inefficiencies and cutting annual cloud costs by $400K across protocol infrastructure.
  • Designed and deployed an in-house ZK prover system with GPU instances and advanced K8s CronJobs, achieving a 28x cost reduction over external prover solutions.
  • Implemented a Web3 Signer using AWS KMS to securely manage deployment keys for the protocol, eliminating direct developer access to private keys and enforcing least-privilege key management for on-chain operations.
  • Built end-to-end CI/CD, monitoring, and observability for Nexus (cross-chain bridge); configured automated alerts for solver balance thresholds to prevent bridge downtime and ensure continuous liquidity. Integrated new L2 chains (MegaETH, Citrea) into Nexus, expanding the protocol's multi-chain ecosystem.
  • Implemented deep observability with OpenTelemetry across the data availability layer, helping developers identify and resolve DHT-related P2P networking errors impacting light client fetch performance.
  • Built an infrastructure management workflow using Terraform and Ansible to ensure smooth, zero-downtime upgrades on RPC nodes and validators; configured bare-metal servers and provisioned isolated devnet environments with self-hosted CI runners.
  • Defined SLOs for validator uptime and RPC latency, built Grafana alert runbooks for on-call incident response, and established post-mortem processes to drive reliability improvements across the network.

DevOps Specialist @ Almosafer

Dubai

Aug 2023 — Aug 2024
  • Architected an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins on Kubernetes (StatefulSet) and ArgoCD for GitOps-driven deployments, enabling automated rollouts across staging and production.
  • Deployed production infrastructure on AWS using Terraform, authoring reusable modules with remote state and workspaces for multi-environment scalability.
  • Automated log rotation and Filebeat configuration on legacy systems via SaltStack with custom pillar definitions, reducing manual operational overhead.
  • Mitigated a critical RBAC security vulnerability in EKS by implementing IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA), enforcing least-privilege access across 3 clusters hosting 60+ microservices.

DevOps Engineer @ Delhivery

India

May 2022 — Aug 2023
  • Spearheaded AWS cost optimization at one of India's largest AWS clients, driving $800K+ in annual infrastructure savings through rightsizing, Reserved Instances, and Spot fleet strategies.
  • Executed zero-downtime EKS cluster upgrades (1.22 to 1.27) across production, staging, and dev environments, managing node group migrations and API deprecation handling.
  • Built Terraform modules for provisioning VPCs, EKS clusters, and RDS instances across multiple AWS accounts with cross-account IAM role assumptions.

// education

Bachelor of Computer Science

Chitkara University · Rajpura, Punjab, India

2017 — 2021

GPA: 9.0/10