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Harshal Ghatol

Harshal Ghatol

DevOps Engineer
Nagpur

Summary

Critical thinking DevOps Engineer with extensive understanding of high availability architecture and concepts. Purpose-driven professional with capacity to be strong team player plus work effectively independently.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience
4041
4041
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications

Work History

DevOps Engineer

HotelKey India Pvt Ltd
01.2023 - Current
  • Kubernetes: Built and maintained production-grade Kubernetes clusters (EKS), with optimized Helm-based deployments, HPA, and namespace-based access control for 20+ microservices.
  • Docker: Containerized legacy and modern apps with Docker, ensuring parity across dev, staging, and prod; integrated with CI/CD for automated image builds and vulnerability scans.
  • Terraform: Architected and deployed complete AWS infrastructure using modular Terraform, including VPC, EKS, RDS, ALB/NLB, IAM, and CloudFront setups across multiple environments.
  • Bash & Python Scripting: Wrote 50+ reusable Bash and Python automation scripts for log parsing, backup jobs, service monitoring, release automation, and Slack alerting.
  • AWS Architecture Design: Delivered secure, scalable 3-tier and serverless architectures using ALB, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and RDS.
  • Security: Enforced zero-trust networking via AWS WAF, GuardDuty, and Security Groups; implemented least-privilege IAM, SSM access (no SSH), and vulnerability management with Trivy.
  • Cost Optimization (~30%): Achieved ~30% AWS cost savings through EC2 right-sizing (r6g, t4g), gp3 volume migration, Spot usage, S3 lifecycle policies, and automated idle resource cleanup.
  • CI/CD Pipelines: Built multi-stage CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, Nexus, and Flyway, enabling daily zero-downtime deploys with rollback support.
  • Infrastructure Automation: Reduced provisioning time by 70% via fully automated Terraform/Ansible-based stack deployments; standard across staging/UAT/PROD.
  • Monitoring & Observability: Integrated CloudWatch, Prometheus, and custom metric dashboards; reduced MTTR by 50% via auto-remediation scripts and alert tuning.
  • Database Automation: Automated version-controlled DB migrations using Flyway with custom Python wrappers, powering over 120 reliable production deploys.
  • Slack Integrations: Implemented automated Slack alerting/reporting for build failures, deployment status, and cost anomaly detection using Python APIs.
  • Legacy Migration: Led cloud migration of legacy on-prem workloads to AWS within 3 months; reduced infra management effort by over 60%.
  • Team Enablement: Mentored DevOps interns and junior engineers; conducted workshops on IaC, CI/CD, and containerization best practices.

Associate Software Engineer

SailPoint Technologies
06.2022 - 11.2022
  • Developed scalable RESTful APIs in Java using clean code and SOLID principles for maintainable, testable systems.
  • Managed code via Git/GitHub with clean branching and thorough code reviews.
  • Created technical documentation to streamline onboarding and knowledge transfer.
  • Supported production releases through release notes, log validation, and performance monitoring.
  • Contributed in Agile ceremonies to ensure timely and iterative feature delivery.
  • Collaborated with QA, design, and product teams for end-to-end feature completion.
  • Built UI components using Spring Boot, HTML, and CSS to accelerate front-end delivery.
  • Wrote JUnit-based unit tests to improve coverage and reduce production issues.

Education

B.Tech - Computer Science and Engineering

G.H Raisoni College of Engineering
Nagpur, India
01-2022

HSC - Computer Science

M.K Umathe Science College
Nagpur, India
01-2018

Skills

    Kubernetes

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Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

HotelKey India Pvt Ltd
01.2023 - Current

Associate Software Engineer

SailPoint Technologies
06.2022 - 11.2022

B.Tech - Computer Science and Engineering

G.H Raisoni College of Engineering

HSC - Computer Science

M.K Umathe Science College

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