Gaurav Halnawar
DevOps Engineer | AWS & Kubernetes | CI/CD, GitOps, Terraform | Production Deployments & On-Call Support
Professional Summary
DevOps Engineer with 2+ years of experience supporting production systems in an AWS-based startup environment.
Strong background in CI/CD automation, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform-managed infrastructure, and secure cloud operations.
Proven ability to improve deployment reliability, handle production issues, and support scalable cloud platforms.
Experience
Cloud DevOps Consultant — Skillected
Aug 2025 – Present | Pune
- Designed and reviewed production-grade cloud and CI/CD architectures using AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes (EKS), and GitHub Actions.
- Built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines reducing manual deployment effort by ~60%.
- Implemented monitoring and alerting using Prometheus and Grafana.
- Advised on IAM design, secrets management, and least-privilege access models.
AWS DevOps Engineer — Equip9
Jan 2024 – Jul 2025 | Pune
- Owned CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes (EKS) deployments for multiple services.
- Implemented GitOps workflows using Helm and Amazon ECR.
- Provided production support including incident triage and rollback decisions.
- Configured RDS read replicas to offload ~40% read traffic.
- Built Jenkins pipelines on EC2 for Docker image automation.
- Implemented AWS Secrets Manager with automated credential rotation.
- Configured IRSA using OIDC for secure EKS workload access.
Skills
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes (EKS)
Terraform
GitHub Actions
Jenkins
Helm
ArgoCD
Prometheus
Grafana
Linux
Bash
Python
Education
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering
Savitribai Phule Pune University (2019 – 2023)
CGPA: 7.69 / 10
Certification
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner