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Hi, I'm Kotharu Nikhil Sai Shankar

🌟 DevOps Engineer | AWS | Kubernetes | Terraform | CI/CD Automation

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πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» About Me

DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of hands-on experience in AWS cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, and container orchestration. Passionate about building reliable, scalable delivery pipelines, reducing environment drift through Infrastructure as Code, and automating releases end to end.

  • πŸ’Ό Working as a DevOps Engineer at GrayQuest, Mumbai
  • ☁️ Experienced in AWS cloud infrastructure, DevOps automation, and scalable application deployments
  • πŸ”§ Skilled in CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, container orchestration, and monitoring solutions
  • 🚦 Focused on reliability, high availability, security, and delivery speed
  • πŸ”„ Practicing GitOps with Argo CD and blue-green / canary deployment strategies
  • 🌱 Currently exploring advanced Kubernetes patterns, GitOps at scale, and cloud security practices
  • ✍️ I write about DevOps on Medium

πŸš€ Skills and Technologies

☁️ Cloud Platform

AWS

EC2 β€’ ECR β€’ ECS β€’ EKS β€’ S3 β€’ VPC β€’ IAM β€’ ASG β€’ ELB

🐳 Containerization & Orchestration

Docker Kubernetes

Deployments β€’ StatefulSets β€’ Services β€’ Ingress β€’ HPA β€’ NetworkPolicy β€’ Rolling Updates β€’ Blue-Green & Canary

βš™οΈ CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Jenkins Argo CD Terraform GitOps

Declarative Pipelines β€’ GitHub Webhooks β€’ Quality Gates β€’ Automated Sync & Drift Self-Healing

πŸ“Š Monitoring & Observability

Prometheus Grafana

Alerting Rules β€’ Dashboards β€’ Application Health Tracking

πŸ” Security & Quality

SonarQube Trivy

Vulnerability Scanning β€’ OWASP Security Practices β€’ Blocking Quality Gates in CI

πŸ’Ύ Database

AWS RDS MySQL

πŸ’» Scripting & Operating Systems

Bash Python Linux

πŸ”„ Version Control & Build

Git GitHub Maven


πŸ“ˆ Key Achievements

  • ⚑ Reduced end-to-end deployment time by 40% with multi-stage Jenkins CI/CD pipelines
  • πŸ“¦ Cut environment mismatch incidents by 60% through containerization and ECR/ECS delivery
  • πŸ”„ Implemented blue-green and canary deployments on Kubernetes for near-zero-downtime releases
  • πŸ—οΈ Built reusable Terraform modules reducing manual provisioning effort
  • πŸ“Š Configured Prometheus alerting and Grafana dashboards to catch production issues early
  • πŸ” Embedded Trivy vulnerability scanning and OWASP security practices into CI/CD

🌱 Currently Exploring

  • Advanced Kubernetes & GitOps workflows
  • AWS Security & Networking
  • Infrastructure Automation & Cost Optimization
  • AIOps

πŸ“Œ Featured Projects

Project Stack What it does
Docker-application-e2e-Java Java, Jenkins, Nexus, Trivy CI/CD pipeline for a Java web app + MySQL, deployed on Docker Stack
Pulsedeploy-gitops-eks Terraform, Jenkins, ArgoCD, EKS Terraform-provisioned EKS + Jenkins CI (SonarQube/Trivy) + ArgoCD GitOps delivery of a PHP/MySQL app
Aws-flow-3tier-arch AWS VPC, ALB, ASG, RDS Hands-on 3-tier architecture across 2 AZs β€” public ALB, Auto Scaling EC2, private RDS MySQL
Microservices-project Jenkins, AWS EKS Online Boutique (11-service demo) deployed via a Jenkins Multibranch Pipeline, one branch per service

πŸ“« Connect with Me

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⭐ Thank you for visiting my profile! Let's connect and build something reliable together.

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    GitOps: Argo CD continuously deploys a Kubernetes app from this repo covers image updates, rollbacks, and OutOfSync sync

  2. Pulsedeploy-gitops-eks Pulsedeploy-gitops-eks Public

    End-to-end DevOps on Kubernetes Terraform-provisioned EKS, Jenkins CI with SonarQube quality gates & Trivy scanning, Docker Hub, and ArgoCD GitOps delivery of a PHP/MySQL app with HPA, StatefulSet,…

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