A. Prudvi Koushik

Junior DevOps Engineer

03/2024 – Present | Tad Beer Mountain Gate Center, Dubai, UAE

• Designed and automated end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git, and Maven, reducing release cycles by 30%.
• Built and managed scalable, production-grade AWS infrastructure using Terraform, enabling consistent and repeatable provisioning.
• Containerized applications using Docker, accelerating development workflows and supporting microservices architecture.
• Deployed and operated applications on Kubernetes clusters, ensuring high availability through pod auto-scaling, replica sets, and load balancing.
• Implemented Prometheus monitoring and integrated Grafana dashboards with alerting rules, improving incident response time by 40%.
• Collaborated closely with development teams to define Git branching strategies, ensuring smooth code reviews, merges, and conflict resolution.
• Executed blue-green and canary deployments on Kubernetes, enabling zero-downtime application upgrades and safe feature rollouts.
• Standardized environments across dev, staging, and production using Docker images, eliminating "works on my machine" issues.
• Integrated security scans and vulnerability checks into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins plugins, image scanning, and security auditing tools.
• Monitored and optimized Kubernetes resource utilization using Grafana and Prometheus, improving performance while reducing infrastructure costs.

CI/CD Automation – Jenkins, Maven & Tomcat

• Implemented a robust Jenkins CI/CD pipeline integrating Git, Maven, and Nexus.
• Automated build, test, artifact management, and deployment to Apache Tomcat across three instances.
• Streamlined end-to-end website deployment, demonstrating strong DevOps automation skills.

Containerized CI/CD – Docker & DevSecOps

• Designed and implemented a complete Jenkins CI/CD pipeline for a Java web application.
• Automated build, test, code quality analysis, artifact upload, and containerized deployment using Docker Compose.
• Integrated Git, Maven, SonarQube, Nexus, and Docker to ensure quality-driven and secure deployments.

IT Infrastructure Project – Call Centre Setup

• Deployed a complete 10-user call centre IT infrastructure.
• Configured Windows 11 systems, LAN networking with a D-Link managed switch, and Hikvision IP camera integration.
• Implemented domain access, installed business applications, and ensured secure, high-performance connectivity.