Narayan Kundgir

Built and managed all cloud infrastructure independently for 3+ years — 10 services (Ruby/Go/Java, PostgreSQL) across staging, pre-production, and production. Now growing the team.

Infrastructure & Architecture

• AWS: EC2, ECS (Fargate), Aurora PostgreSQL, ElastiCache (Redis), OpenSearch, MSK (Kafka), Amazon MQ, WAF, Route53, Lambda, EventBridge
• Monitoring: CloudWatch, New Relic, Pandora FMS
• All infrastructure as code in Terraform (migrated 0.12→1.3), deployed via Bitbucket Pipelines
• Evaluated EKS for StatefulSet and persistent storage requirements

Cost Optimization — 61% non-prod, 30% production savings

• Designed per-developer staging with modular Terraform + Lambda cost optimizer (Python/EventBridge) with developer self-service controls — 61% reduction (168→65 hrs/week)
• Implemented Reserved Instances and Savings Plans (RDS, EC2, Fargate) — 30% production cost reduction

Reliability & DR

• Aurora Multi-AZ failover — GMO Awards 2025 for 3-minute AWS outage recovery
• Designing cross-region standby (Tokyo→Osaka): DMS replication, AMI sync, DNS failover

Security

• Layered defense: AWS WAF at ALB (managed + custom rules) with Trend Micro IPS on host instances

Operations & Maintenance

• Aurora engine upgrades, ECS task definitions, OS patching, Docker image updates, SSL/RI renewals, Terraform state management
• Monthly cost analysis with Trusted Advisor; IAM policy audits; DNS management (Route53, Cloudflare); alert threshold tuning; yearly DR exercises

Automation

• Release Orchestrator: YAML-driven automated deployment scheduling across service repos
• ECS rolling deployments for zero-downtime releases

Led test automation and CI/CD pipeline engineering, progressively building infrastructure automation capabilities.

• Designed and owned CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins (Groovy), integrating automated testing into deployment workflows
• Built test automation frameworks (RestAssured, TestNG, Cucumber, Selenium, Gatling) adopted across multiple teams
• Trained engineering teams on test development, improving velocity and code quality
• Adopted Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and Ansible — transitioning from quality engineering into DevOps

Automated testing for large-scale e-commerce web services, with exposure to containerized and cloud-native monitoring environments.

• Built automated test suites for web services using REST-Assured, Gatling, Postman, TestNG, and Cucumber
• Developed CI/CD automation workflows in Jenkins, enabling faster release cycles
• Worked with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud monitoring tools (Datadog, New Relic) in an Agile delivery environment
• Authored test plans, policies, and executive reports for stakeholder visibility

Systems-level performance engineering — profiling, tuning, and optimizing infrastructure, databases, and application servers.

• Designed and executed end-to-end performance testing strategies for web applications using JMeter, establishing NFR baselines and workload models
• Tuned application and database infrastructure: Apache, Tomcat, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2 — resolving bottlenecks across the full stack
• Monitored and profiled applications using Dynatrace APM, jconsole, jprofiler, and jvisualVM for deep performance analysis
• Diagnosed production latency issues through network trace analysis using browser developer tools and packet capture
• Delivered performance reports and executive summaries translating technical findings into stakeholder decisions