Vaibhav S. Kolekar | DevOps Resume

Profile

Professional Summary

DevOps Engineer experienced in designing, implementing, and managing cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines across AWS and Azure. Skilled in Infrastructure as Code, Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, AKS, automation, monitoring, logging, and secure application deployments. Focused on reliability, security, operational excellence, cost optimization, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Expertise

Technical Skills

AWS

Lambda, EC2, RDS, S3, WAF, CloudFront, DynamoDB, API Gateway, IAM, VPC, Route 53, SQS

Azure

AKS, ACR, Azure VM, Azure App Service, Azure SQL, Azure Monitor, VNet, Azure DevOps

DevOps

Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Git, CI/CD, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, SonarQube

Monitoring

AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, logs and alerts

Security

IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, GuardDuty, AWS Inspector, PCI-DSS, VAPT, ISO27K

Scripting & OS

Basic Python, boto3, Shell Scripting, Amazon Linux, Ubuntu, Windows Server 2022/2025

Career

Professional Experience

Senior Software Engineer DevOps

Indifly Ventures Private Limited – FinTech Domain

Apr 2024 – Mar 2026

Designed and implemented serverless architecture using Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, and SQS, reducing infrastructure cost by 40%.
Implemented Docker-based containerization and managed image repositories using Amazon ECR.
Worked on EKS and AKS for application deployments, scaling, and service management.
Integrated GitHub repositories with Jenkins pipelines for automated CI/CD workflows.
Automated AWS operations using Python boto3, including EC2 scheduling and S3 lifecycle management.
Configured CloudWatch monitoring, alarms, centralized logging, IAM roles, KMS encryption, and Secrets Manager.
Supported production releases and incident management in a 24/7 FinTech environment.

DevOps Engineer

Indiconnect Paytech Private Limited – FinTech Domain

Mar 2023 – Mar 2024

Supported migration from on-premise infrastructure to AWS cloud.
Created CI/CD pipelines for monolithic applications using Jenkins and Maven.
Built reusable Terraform modules for networking, compute, and storage.
Provisioned AWS resources including EC2, EKS, ALB, S3, IAM, RDS, and ECR using Terraform.
Implemented S3 remote backend and DynamoDB state locking.
Improved deployment reliability and reduced manual effort by 30%.

Junior Software Associate DevOps

Global Info Services

Apr 2020 – Jan 2023

Assisted in maintaining Jenkins CI/CD pipelines across development, testing, and production environments.
Monitored application and infrastructure health using AWS CloudWatch, logs, and alerts.
Performed Linux administration tasks including users, permissions, and process monitoring.
Supported deployments on EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS, and load balancers.
Created shell scripts for routine operational automation and troubleshooting.

Work

Key Projects

Merchant Portal / CCS Portal / Admin Portal

Client: Indiconnect Paytech Pvt Ltd | Cloud: AWS Serverless

Designed event-driven workflows using Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, and CloudFormation.
Deployed serverless applications through Jenkins multi-branch pipelines and CloudFront.
Implemented WAF rules based on IP and geo-location.

Merchant Portal / CCS Portal / Admin Portal

Client: Zavemoney Technologies | Cloud: AWS Serverless

Built REST APIs using API Gateway integrated with Lambda functions.
Integrated Lambda with DynamoDB for low-latency and highly available data storage.
Configured monitoring and alerting using CloudWatch metrics, logs, alarms, and X-Ray.

Merchant Portal / CCS Portal / Admin Portal

Client: Cashcom Finserv Pvt Ltd | Cloud: Azure Kubernetes

Deployed and managed containerized applications on Azure AKS.
Created Kubernetes manifests for Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and Ingress.
Configured HPA, rolling updates, rollbacks, RBAC, monitoring, and CI/CD automation.

Academic

Education

Master in Computer Science – M.Sc. CS

Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded – 2019

CGPA: 7.2