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Namdeo Pawar

Senior DevOps & Kubernetes Engineer

AWS EKS · On-Prem Kubernetes · Terraform · GitOps (ArgoCD / Flux) · Zero Trust

AWS DevOps Pro AWS SA Associate RHCSA CKA (In Progress)
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Senior DevOps & Kubernetes Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing and operating production-grade infrastructure across AWS EKS and on-premises Kubernetes environments.

Deep expertise in GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux), Terraform IaC, and Zero Trust networking (OpenZiti) — delivered 80% reduction in manual ops and maintained 99.99% uptime across multi-cloud migrations.

Passionate about platform engineering, Kubernetes internals, security-first automation, and building systems that scale reliably at production.

5+ Years Experience
1000+ EC2 Instances Managed
80% Ops Automation
99.99% Uptime Maintained
LocationPune, Maharashtra, India
RoleSenior DevOps Engineer
CurrentKsolves India Limited
Emailmenamdeopawar@gmail.com
GitHubgithub.com/namdeopawar
LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/namdeopawar
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$ ls -la skills/

☸️ Kubernetes

AWS EKS On-Prem K8s Helm Karpenter Cluster Autoscaler Ingress / Gateway API RBAC Network Policies Rancher K3s kubeadm

☁️ AWS Cloud

EKS EC2 VPC IAM ECS RDS Route53 ALB / ELB Auto Scaling S3 CloudWatch KMS GuardDuty Azure GCP

🔄 GitOps & CI/CD

ArgoCD Flux GitLab CI/CD GitHub Actions Jenkins CodePipeline CodeBuild CodeDeploy

⚙️ Infrastructure as Code

Terraform Ansible CloudFormation Packer

🐳 Containers

Docker Containerd Docker Compose BuildKit Harbor

🔒 Security & Identity

OpenZiti (Zero Trust) Keycloak OIDC / SAML OPA / Gatekeeper Vault KMS NACLs TLS / PKI

📊 Observability

Prometheus Grafana Loki AlertManager CloudWatch ELK Stack OpenSearch

🖥️ Virtualization

Proxmox VMware ESXi Hyper-V KVM

🌐 Service Mesh & Networking

Istio Consul App Mesh NGINX Ingress AWS ALB Controller

💻 Scripting & Databases

Bash/Shell Python YAML Groovy MySQL PostgreSQL DynamoDB Amazon RDS

$ git log --experience

Senior DevOps Engineer

Ksolves India Limited

Feb 2025 – Present Pune, India Current
  • Designed and operated secure, high-availability Apache NiFi clusters on Linux and Kubernetes for enterprise data pipelines.
  • Implemented Zero Trust access using OpenZiti for service-to-service connectivity without exposing public endpoints.
  • Deployed enterprise SSO using Keycloak (OIDC/SAML), standardizing authentication flows across services.
  • Built hardened VM/container images using Packer, Docker, and Kali Linux for security testing and standardized golden images.
  • Developed GitLab CI/CD pipelines for automated bot runner image builds, security checks, and artifact publishing.
  • Deployed and managed Harbor private container registry with RBAC and vulnerability scanning.
  • Automated AWS infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible; managed production Kubernetes with Helm and ArgoCD GitOps.
  • Implemented centralized observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and CloudWatch to reduce MTTR.
OpenZitiKeycloakKubernetesArgoCDHarborTerraformGitLab CI/CDPacker

Product Solution Engineer (DevOps)

DemandFarm

Aug 2021 – Jan 2025 Pune, India
  • Managed 1,000+ Linux and AWS EC2 instances, automating log ingestion and S3 archival (10TB+/month).
  • Automated infrastructure deployments using CloudFormation, Terraform, and Ansible, reducing provisioning time by 60%.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, CodePipeline, and CodeDeploy, improving release stability and velocity.
  • Migrated workloads across AWS, on-premises, and GCP while maintaining 99.99% uptime.
  • Upgraded MySQL databases and Ubuntu systems, improving performance, patch compliance, and security posture.
  • Enforced IAM, GuardDuty, Inspector, NACLs, and AWS Config for compliance and security governance.
AWSTerraformJenkinsCodePipelineAnsibleGuardDutyCloudFormation

Jr Salesforce Developer Intern

CloudInfomatic Pvt Ltd

Mar 2021 – Jul 2021 Bangalore, India
  • Configured Salesforce automation workflows, validation rules, roles, and profiles.
  • Implemented secure access controls using sharing rules and role hierarchies.
SalesforceRBACAutomation

$ ls projects/

🛡️

Secure Bot Runner Platform

Zero Trust bot execution platform eliminating public exposure, with fully automated image build pipeline and secure artifact lifecycle management.

  • Zero Trust service access via OpenZiti — no public endpoints exposed
  • GitLab CI/CD pipeline for Docker/Kali image builds, validation & versioning
  • Reusable VM images using Packer (qcow2/AMI-ready patterns)
  • Harbor RBAC + vulnerability scanning for secure image distribution
OpenZitiGitLab CI/CDHarborPackerDockerKali Linux
🔑

SSO Enablement for Platform Services

Enterprise-grade centralized authentication platform using Keycloak, standardizing identity management across all internal services and tools.

  • Centralized auth with Keycloak for platform services and internal tools
  • OIDC/SAML integrations with role mapping and secure reverse-proxy patterns
  • Hardened TLS/certificate workflows with complete team onboarding docs
  • Integrated with Azure Entra ID for enterprise SSO governance
KeycloakOIDCSAMLNginxTLSAzure Entra ID
☸️

Production-Grade Kubernetes on AWS EKS

Full production Kubernetes platform on AWS EKS with GitOps-driven deployments, intelligent autoscaling, and comprehensive observability stack.

  • EKS infrastructure provisioned with Terraform; apps deployed via Helm charts
  • GitOps with ArgoCD for automated, auditable deployments with rollback
  • Karpenter for cost-efficient node autoscaling based on workload demand
  • Full observability: Prometheus + Grafana + Loki + alerting for 99.99% uptime
AWS EKSTerraformHelmArgoCDKarpenterPrometheusGrafana

$ cat certifications.json

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

Professional

Certified

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Associate

Certified

Red Hat Certified System Administrator

RHCSA

Certified

Red Hat Specialist in Ansible Automation

Red Hat

Certified

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

CKA

In Progress

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

HashiCorp

In Progress

$ cat achievements.txt

🚀

Reduced manual operational workload by 80% through automation, IaC standardization, and tooling adoption

🗄️

Led MySQL and PostgreSQL migrations with zero data loss and minimal downtime across production systems

🔧

Spearheaded Ubuntu 18→22 upgrades across all production systems, eliminating EOL security risks

🔐

Implemented enterprise SSO via Azure Entra ID / SAML to strengthen authentication and access governance

📈

Maintained 99.99% uptime during complex multi-cloud workload migrations across AWS, on-prem, and GCP

⚡

Reduced infrastructure provisioning time by 60% through Terraform and Ansible automation at DemandFarm

$ cat education.log

🎓

Master of Computer Application (MCA)

Government College of Engineering, Aurangabad

Aurangabad, India  ·  2018 – 2021

🎓

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Savitribai Phule Pune University

Pune, India  ·  2015 – 2018

$ curl -X POST /contact

Looking to collaborate, discuss DevOps challenges, or just connect? I'm always open to conversations about cloud infrastructure, automation, and security-first engineering.

menamdeopawar@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/namdeopawar github.com/namdeopawar +91 8237233307
contact.sh

$ curl https://namacloudops.in/api/me

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  "name": "Namdeo Pawar",

  "role": "Senior DevOps Engineer",

  "location": "Pune, India",

  "available": true,

  "response_time": "< 24h"

}

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