Cloud & DevOps Engineer

Building reliable
cloud infrastructure

I design, automate, and scale cloud systems with security and observability built in from day one — not bolted on later.

AWSAzureGCPTerraformKubernetesCI/CD
3+
Years Experience
6+
Certifications
70%
Manual Work Cut
Vidit Pawar
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About

Who I am

I'm a Cloud & DevOps Engineer who enjoys turning manual, fragile infrastructure into secure, automated, and observable systems.

I've worked across AWS, Azure, and GCP — building CI/CD pipelines, Terraform modules, Kubernetes deployments, and monitoring stacks used by real teams in production.

What excites me most:

Reducing deployment risk through automated testing and progressive rollouts
Improving developer experience with self-service infrastructure and clear documentation
Designing infrastructure that scales without surprises — observability first, not afterthought
Education

Master of Science

Management Information Systems

University of Arizona

Open to roles in

Cloud EngineerDevOps EngineerPlatform EngineerSRE

Experience

Where I've worked

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DevOps Intern

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona

May 2025 – Aug 2025
  • Automated multi-environment AWS deployments using Terraform, standardizing infrastructure across teams
  • Integrated Veracode security scans across 300+ CI/CD pipelines to proactively mitigate vulnerabilities
  • Improved deployment reliability with automated smoke testing and REST API validation
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Cloud Engineer

LTIMindtree

Jul 2022 – May 2024
  • Reduced manual deployment effort by 70% through Terraform and Ansible automation
  • Optimized containerized workloads on Kubernetes (AKS, EKS) for high availability and scalability
  • Built Grafana and Prometheus dashboards enabling real-time observability across cloud workloads
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Data Analyst Intern

MEDTOUREASY

Jun 2021 – Jul 2021
  • Built automated reporting dashboards with Power BI and SQL Server, reducing manual reporting by 50%
  • Designed data pipelines for healthcare analytics supporting 10,000+ patient records

Projects

What I've built

01

NYC Taxi Dynamic Fare Estimation Platform

DigitalOceanDockerGitHub ActionsPostgreSQLRedisCI/CD Pipeline60% Faster APIEnv Separation
Problem

Real-time fare estimation requires scalable infrastructure, low-latency APIs, and reliable deployments. Manual deployments and lack of automated testing led to frequent downtime.

DevOps Focus
  • Containerized the ML model and API using Docker for consistent environments
  • Built GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline with automated linting, testing, and deployment
  • Implemented Redis caching layer reducing API response time by 60%
  • Configured environment separation (dev/staging/prod) with managed PostgreSQL
02

YouTube Trends Analytics Pipeline

AWS LambdaS3GlueAthenaQuickSightServerless ETLData LakeCost Optimized
Problem

Processing large-scale YouTube data required serverless architecture that handles variable workloads without over-provisioning. Traditional ETL pipelines were too rigid and expensive at scale.

DevOps Focus
  • Built event-driven data pipeline using AWS Lambda triggered by S3 uploads
  • Automated data cataloging with AWS Glue crawlers for schema discovery
  • Enabled ad-hoc SQL queries on S3 data lake using Athena (no database provisioning)
  • Implemented cost optimization with S3 lifecycle policies and intelligent tiering
03

Bakery Demand Forecasting System

PythonProphetDockerDigitalOceanREST APIScheduled RetrainingAutoscalingObject Storage
Problem

Small businesses struggle to plan seasonal production from historical sales data. This project packages demand forecasting as a cloud service so forecasts can be generated through an API instead of spreadsheets.

DevOps Focus
  • Built a containerized forecasting service using Python and Prophet
  • Deployed on DigitalOcean App Platform with autoscaling containers for inference
  • Used object storage for model artifacts and scheduled batch retraining via cron
  • Exposed forecasts through an HTTPS-secured REST API

Philosophy

How I work

01

Automation-First

If you're doing it manually more than twice, it should be automated. I treat infrastructure as code and deployment as a product feature.

02

Security by Default

Security isn't a checkbox — it's integrated into the pipeline. Every deployment enforces least-privilege and maintains audit trails.

03

Observability as a Feature

You can't improve what you can't measure. Monitoring, logging, and alerting are core infrastructure — not afterthoughts.

04

Infrastructure as Product

Platform teams exist to enable developers, not gatekeep. I design self-service infrastructure that's documented and easy to use.

Skills

Technical toolkit

Cloud Platforms

AWS

EC2EKSS3LambdaRDSIAMCloudFormation

Azure

AKSApp ServiceKey VaultAzure DevOpsSecurity Center

GCP

Compute EngineBigQueryCloud Functions

Multi-cloud infrastructure design and migration experience

Infrastructure & Automation

IaC

TerraformAnsibleChefPuppet

CI/CD

GitHub ActionsAzure DevOpsJenkins

Containers

DockerKubernetesHelmArgoCD

GitOps workflows and immutable infrastructure patterns

Observability & Security

Monitoring

PrometheusGrafanaCloudWatch

Logging

CloudTrailAzure MonitorELK Stack

Security

VaultVeracodeSonarQubeAzure Security Center

Shift-left security and compliance automation

Programming & Data

Languages

PythonBashPowerShellSQL

Databases

PostgreSQLMySQLOracle SQLBigQuery

Analytics

Power BITableau

Infrastructure automation and data pipeline development

Contact

Let's build something
reliable together

I'm actively seeking Cloud, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE-focused roles. Let's connect and discuss how I can help your team build resilient, scalable systems.