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Ash M

@ashm

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Senior DevOps and SRE engineering cloud-native platforms with Kubernetes, GitOps, and security/compliance automation.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a cloud-native team where I can own reliability and platform engineering end-to-end—building Kubernetes/GitOps delivery, SLO-driven operations, DevSecOps compliance automation, and continuous cost/security improvements.

I’m a Senior DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer with 8 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure across healthcare, fintech, and cloud managed services. I build Kubernetes platforms and reliability practices that deliver measurable outcomes—like maintaining 99.99% uptime on a multi-region active-active EKS environment while reducing mean time to recovery by ~62% through automated runbooks and chaos engineering.

I’m especially effective at turning compliance and reliability into repeatable engineering workflows. I’ve automated HIPAA and PCI-DSS controls via OPA/Gatekeeper, Falco, and pipeline security gates, implemented GitOps with ArgoCD to cut deployment lead time ~74%, and led observability programs using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and PagerDuty to track SLOs and error budgets—reducing P1 incident rates by ~48%. I also drive FinOps with Kubecost and AWS Cost Explorer (about $1.4M annual savings) and strengthen security with HashiCorp Vault and zero-trust IAM policies, while building disaster recovery with RPO under 15 minutes and RTO under 30 minutes validated by automated drills.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior DevOps Engineer

Current

BluePeak Solutions

Jan 2022 - Present (4 years 5 months)

Architected a multi-region active-active EKS platform on AWS, maintaining 99.99% uptime and reducing MTTR by ~62% via automated runbooks and chaos engineering. Implemented GitOps with ArgoCD across a dozen microservices, cutting deployment lead time by ~74% and establishing a daily release cadence with zero-downtime delivery.

AWS Terraform ArgoCD GitHub Actions OPA Gatekeeper Kubecost

Site Reliability Engineer

Stratus10

Mar 2019 - Dec 2021 (2 years 9 months)

Led migration of a monolithic payment platform to EKS, reducing infrastructure costs by ~$780K annually and supporting 3x peak traffic without incidents. Automated PCI-DSS compliance in CI/CD using Trivy, Snyk, and Falco, achieving Level 1 PCI-DSS within 6 months and reducing remediation SLA from 14 days to under 48 hours.

AWS Trivy Snyk Falco PCI DSS Backstage IDP Istio

Cloud / DevOps Engineer

NClouds

Jun 2016 - Feb 2019 (2 years 8 months)

Delivered AWS cloud migration engagements, migrating hundreds of workloads with zero data loss and reducing average client infrastructure costs by ~41% through rightsizing and Reserved Instance planning. Built reusable Terraform modules and standardized CI/CD with Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD, cutting provisioning time by ~70% and reducing manual steps while eliminating configuration drift.