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Adrian Ash

@adrianash

Senior DevOps Engineer at Carmel Solutions who built an Internal Developer Platform that cut new-service onboarding time by 50%+.

United States

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At Carmel Solutions, I led platform engineering for an enterprise microservices ecosystem, building an Internal Developer Platform with Backstage and AWS EKS. I designed self-service workflows and reusable infrastructure templates that reduced new-service onboarding time by 50%+.

I also implemented GitOps deployments with Argo CD and automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform. Earlier, at Responsive and Cygnus Education, I worked on Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD automation, security scanning, observability, and full-stack features for an internal learning platform.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior DevOps Engineer

Current

Carmel Solutions

Dec 2022 - Present (3 years 11 months)

Led Platform Engineering for an enterprise microservices ecosystem, building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) with Backstage and AWS EKS. Implemented GitOps-based Kubernetes deployments with Argo CD and automated AWS infrastructure provisioning with Terraform.

Kubernetes Amazon EKS Terraform Helm ArgoCD GitHub Actions Gitlab CI Docker Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Backstage Vault Trivy Python

DevOps Engineer

Responsive

Jun 2020 - Nov 2022 (2 years 5 months)

Owned CI/CD and Kubernetes platform engineering for a growing microservices architecture on AWS EKS, embedding security scanning and observability directly into the delivery pipeline. Designed automated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitLab CI for microservices deployed to AWS EKS.

Kubernetes Docker Jenkins GitLab CI CD Terraform Helm Amazon EKS Prometheus Grafana SonarQube Trivy Python BASH

DevOps Engineer

Cygnus Education

Jul 2018 - May 2020 (1 year 10 months)

Supported an education-technology platform by building CI/CD automation, containerizing services, and provisioning cloud infrastructure while contributing full-stack feature work. Built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins for automated build, test, code-quality validation, and deployment.