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Thaneesh Aadithya

Platform Engineer & SRE · DevOps · Cloud Infrastructure · 7 Years

Building and operating the platform that 30+ engineering teams rely on — sustaining 99.9%+ uptime, tripling deployment frequency, cutting incident detection by 60% at Fortune-500 scale.

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profile.yaml

name: Thaneesh Aadithya

role: Platform Engineer & SRE

experience: 7 years

cluster_size: ~200 nodes

uptime: 99.9%+

teams_served: 30+

compute_saved: $120K / year

p1_incidents: 0

mttd_reduction: 60%

open_to: Hyderabad + Global Remote

visa: USA · UK · CA · AU · EU

# ready to deploy 🚀

99.9%+ Platform Uptime

3× Faster Deployments

↓60% MTTD Reduction

6h→30m Env Provisioning

$120K Saved / Year

0 P1 Deploy Incidents

30+ Teams Served

18mo Zero Downtime Streak

About

Who I Am

Senior Platform Engineer & SRE with 7 years designing, automating, and operating large-scale cloud-native platforms on AWS — across Fortune-500 product companies and enterprise IT consulting engagements.

I own the platform that 30+ engineering teams rely on to ship safely — sustaining 99.9%+ uptime, tripling deployment frequency, and cutting incident detection by 60% through principled IaC, GitOps, SLO-based reliability engineering, and full-stack observability.

Equally fluent in agile product-engineering culture and structured service-delivery models. I combine deep infrastructure expertise with SRE practices and DevSecOps to build platforms teams love and trust.

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Primary Cloud

AWS · Azure · GCP

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Orchestration

Kubernetes / EKS at 200-node scale

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IaC

Terraform · Ansible · GitOps

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Observability

OpenTelemetry · Grafana LGTM · Prometheus

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Security

DevSecOps · OPA · Falco · CIS Benchmarks

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SRE Practices

SLO/SLI · Error budgets · Chaos engineering

Tech Stack

What I Work With

☁️ Cloud / AWS

EC2EKSVPCIAMALB/NLBAuto ScalingS3RDS/AuroraECRRoute 53Secrets ManagerCloudWatchX-RayCost ExplorerAzure AKSGCP GKE

☸️ Kubernetes

EKSHelmKarpenterHPAVPAKEDARBACNetworkPoliciesPod Security StandardsAdmission WebhooksOTel Operator

🏗️ IaC & Config

TerraformOPA policy-as-codeDrift detectionCheckovAnsibleCloudFormationRemote State

🔄 CI/CD & GitOps

GitHub ActionsGitLab CIJenkinsArgo CDArgo RolloutsCanary/Blue-GreenPR-gated promotionsAuto-rollback

📊 Observability

OpenTelemetryGrafana LGTMLokiMimirTempoPrometheusAWS X-RaySLO Dashboards

🔐 Security & SRE

OPA GatekeeperFalcoTrivySAST/DASTSLO/SLIError BudgetsChaos EngineeringCIS Benchmarks

💻 Scripting

PythonBash/ShellYAMLGoLinuxDockerJIRAConfluence

🧠 AI/ML Infra

GPU NodePoolsvLLMKServeMLflowKubeflowKEDASageMaker

Work History

Professional Experience

Senior Platform Engineer & SRE

Target Corporation

Platform Engineering · SRE · AWS EKS · Terraform · GitOps · Observability · Team Leadership

Mar 2023 – Present

Platform reliability & autoscaling — sustained 99.9%+ uptime over 24 months on a ~200-node EKS cluster running 30+ microservices across 4 environments (~5M req/day). HPA + Karpenter absorbs 2–3× surges within 90 seconds. Zero downtime across Black Friday & Cyber Monday.

Multi-AZ architecture & DR — designed 3-tier multi-AZ VPC (public/private/intra) across 3 AZs with HA NAT gateways. Route 53 health-check failover + RDS Multi-AZ — RTO <15min / RPO <5min validated in quarterly DR drills.

SLO engineering & error budget management — defined SLIs/SLOs for 30+ services; burn-rate alerting (14.4× fast-burn → page, 6× slow-burn → warn) — reduced alert noise by ~45%.

Full-stack observability & OpenTelemetry — OTel Collector DaemonSet routing ~50M spans/day to Grafana LGTM; 100% trace coverage with zero code changes; single-click alert → trace → log RCA. MTTD ↓60%, RCA time ↓35%.

GitOps CI/CD & Terraform IaC — GitHub Actions → Helm → Argo CD with Argo Rollouts canary (5→25→50→100%). Tripled deploy frequency (~60 releases/week), zero P1 deploy incidents. Terraform module library cut provisioning from 6h to 30min (−92%).

FinOps & security — Karpenter Spot-first saved ~$120K/year. OPA Gatekeeper, Falco, Trivy — zero critical CVEs for 12 months, CIS EKS Benchmark compliant.

Leadership — led & mentored 3-engineer sub-team; bi-weekly SRE sessions adopted by 30+ teams. MTTR <30min for all P1s over 18 months.

Cloud Infrastructure Consultant

Virtusa

Multi-Client AWS Infrastructure · Jenkins CI/CD · Terraform at Scale · Consulting Delivery

Jun 2022 – Feb 2023

Multi-environment IaC & CI/CD — architected dev/QA/pre-prod/prod AWS environments for 2 enterprise clients with isolated Terraform state, OPA gates, and Jenkins shared-library pipelines — cut provisioning time ~65%.

Module library & observability — reusable Terraform module library adopted by 8 engineers; zero state corruption. OTel SDK tracing — surfaced 5 latency hotspots reducing p99 API latency by ~25%.

DevOps Engineer

Quest Global

Containerisation · Jenkins CI/CD · Kubernetes Operations

Oct 2021 – May 2022

Containerisation & CI/CD — containerised 10+ microservices with multi-stage Docker builds — cut build time ~35%. Jenkins pipelines compressed releases from bi-weekly to daily. K8s probe tuning reduced false-positive pages ~45%.

Associate Systems Engineer

Tanama Software

Linux Systems · AWS Fundamentals · Monitoring & Documentation

Oct 2019 – Sep 2021

AWS infra & documentation — managed Linux-based AWS infra (EC2/VPC/ALB/RDS/DynamoDB/S3/Route 53) for multiple clients maintaining 99%+ SLA. Authored runbooks and SOPs — cut escalations ~30% and reduced onboarding time ~30%.

Open Source

Featured Work

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aws-eks-platform-blueprint

Production-grade Internal Developer Platform on EKS — Terraform + Helm + Argo CD. Karpenter, HPA, KEDA, RBAC, OPA Gatekeeper, Secrets Manager, multi-env across dev/staging/prod.

✅ 6h→30min provisioning · 3× deploys · Zero P1 incidents

TerraformEKSArgo CDKarpenterOPA

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gitops-cicd-pipeline

GitHub Actions → Argo Rollouts canary (5%→25%→50%→100%) with Prometheus analysis gates, sync windows, auto-rollback on SLO breach.

✅ 3× deploy frequency · Zero P1 deploy incidents

GitHub ActionsArgo RolloutsPrometheus

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k8s-observability-stack

Grafana LGTM + OpenTelemetry Collector + X-Ray. SLO burn-rate alerting, pre-built dashboards, runbook templates per alert. ~50M spans/day.

✅ MTTD ↓60% · RCA time ↓35%

OpenTelemetryGrafanaPrometheusLoki

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aws-secrets-hardening

Secrets Manager + ESO + OPA zero-creds enforcement + Falco runtime detection + Checkov IaC scanning. IAM least-privilege patterns.

✅ Zero critical CVEs for 12 consecutive months

Secrets ManagerOPAFalcoTrivy

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Incident-runbook

Battle-tested SRE runbooks — EKS P1/P2, Terraform state, Argo CD sync, Karpenter, DR/Multi-AZ. Blameless postmortem framework included.

✅ MTTR <30min · Repeat incidents ↓40%

SREEKSTerraform

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mlops-eks-platform

AI/ML Platform on EKS — GPU NodePools (Karpenter), vLLM LLM serving, KServe inference with canary rollouts, MLflow, Kubeflow Pipelines, KEDA autoscaling.

🤖 GPU inference · LLM serving · MLOps pipelines

vLLMKServeMLflowGPU

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