DevOps · Platform · Cloud Infrastructure
Harsh Viradia
Platform Engineer · AWS · GCP · Azure
Building infrastructure that scales to millions, costs less tomorrow, and never goes down.
3+
Years Experience
350+
Apps Migrated
10+
K8s Clusters
9
Certifications
expertise
Tech Stack
Cloud3
Kubernetes11
IaC & CI/CD8
Observability7
Security6
FinOps5
Cloud Platforms
🔶AWS
🔵Azure
🟢GCP
Kubernetes
⎈Kubernetes
⬡EKS
⬡AKS
⬡GKE
⛵Helm
🔄ArgoCD
🔀Argo Rollouts
⚖️Karpenter
📈KEDA
🔁GitOps
🐳Docker
IaC & CI/CD
🏗️Terraform
⚡GitHub Actions
🦊GitLab CI/CD
🏭Jenkins
🐍Python
🐚Bash
🚀FastAPI
🔧Linux
Observability
🔥Prometheus
📊Grafana
☁️CloudWatch
🐛Sentry
📋SLO / SLA
🚨Incident Mgmt
📝Post-Incident Reviews
Security
🔑External Secrets
🛡️RBAC
👤IAM
🗝️Secrets Manager
📜Policy-as-Code
🔒Zero Trust
FinOps
💸Karpenter Spot
📉Rightsizing
🏷️Tagging Automation
📊Cost Allocation
🌙Idle Detection
career
Work History
Present
Oct 2024
Oct 2024
DevOps Engineer — L1
Oct 2024 → Present
CirrOps · Surat, India
- Architected multi-cloud solutions on AWS, GCP & Azure aligned to client reliability and cost targets.
- Led a team of 4–6 DevOps engineers — sprint planning, code reviews, on-time delivery.
- Defined SLO/SLA frameworks with Prometheus + Grafana; led post-incident reviews and on-call rotations.
- Built GitOps-based CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Jenkins.
- Enforced RBAC, IAM least-privilege and cross-cloud secret management across 10+ client environments.
Sep 2024
Oct 2023
Oct 2023
Cloud Engineer
Oct 2023 → Sep 2024
CirrOps · Surat, India
- Authored Terraform modules for multi-cloud Kubernetes deployments across AKS, EKS & ECS.
- Led GKE → AKS and ECS → EKS migrations for 350+ apps, reducing cost and operational overhead.
- Built centralised ArgoCD GitOps workflow across 10+ EKS clusters with zero config drift.
- Implemented KEDA dynamic autoscaling (0 → N replicas), eliminating idle compute spend.
- Drove FinOps automation across 30+ environments via tagging and idle-resource policies.
Aug 2023
Dec 2022
Dec 2022
Cloud Infra Engineer (Intern)
Dec 2022 → Aug 2023
Intuitive Cloud · Ahmedabad, India
- FinOps assessments across 30+ environments, identifying cost-saving opportunities.
- Built automated cloud resource tagging for cost-allocation visibility.
- Applied Terraform, VPC networking, and cloud automation on live environments.
portfolio
Key Projects
01.
ECS → EKS Migration
Led end-to-end migration of 350+ workloads from Amazon ECS Fargate to EKS. Kubernetes-native scaling, consolidated management, improved observability.
▸ 350+ apps · Cost reduction
02.
ArgoCD GitOps at Scale
Centralised ArgoCD-driven GitOps workflow managing consistent app delivery across 10+ EKS clusters with full audit traceability and zero drift.
▸ 10+ EKS clusters · Zero drift
03.
Ephemeral Env Platform
Full IaC modules and pipeline to provision/destroy ephemeral Kubernetes environments. Developer-facing FastAPI app for self-service create, list, teardown.
▸ Lead time: hours → minutes
04.
Karpenter Cost Optimisation
Architected Karpenter node pools mixing Spot and On-Demand instances. Significant compute savings while maintaining SLA targets and high availability.
▸ Major cost reduction · HA intact
05.
Cross-Cloud Secrets Sync
Terraform-provisioned pipeline bridging AWS Secrets Manager, GCP Secret Manager, and Azure Key Vault into Kubernetes via External Secrets Operator.
▸ AWS + GCP + Azure unified
06.
GKE → AKS Migration
Migrated containerised apps from GKE to AKS with full Terraform automation, zero data loss, minimal downtime, and repeatable multi-cloud patterns.
▸ Zero data loss · Full automation
credentials
Certifications
Amazon Web Services
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Other Platforms
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Technical Writing
Kubernetes · Security
Integrate Cloud Secrets with Kubernetes via External Secrets & Terraform
Deep-dive into syncing AWS, GCP, and Azure secrets into Kubernetes using the External Secrets Operator, provisioned entirely with Terraform.
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Kubernetes · FinOpsOptimising Kubernetes Scaling with KEDA: Performance vs Cost
Using KEDA event-driven autoscaling to balance performance and cost — scaling from zero based on real traffic signals, not guesswork.
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AWS · ServerlessAWS Lambda for Dynamic ECS Task Execution
Building a Lambda-driven pattern for triggering and managing ECS tasks dynamically — event-driven infra without a standing fleet.
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AWS · CDNCloudFront + S3 for Pre-Signed URL Delivery
Configuring CloudFront in front of S3 to serve pre-signed URLs securely — OAC, cache behaviours, and signed cookie patterns.
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