Dwarakan Palaniyappan

I’m a DevOps engineer with 3+ years building automated, secure, and cost-efficient AWS platforms. I’ve managed infrastructure and CI/CD for 30+ microservices and 9 enterprise applications, maintaining >99% uptime while delivering $120K+ in annual AWS savings.

I lead infrastructure automation and monitoring to improve reliability, security, and operational efficiency. Using Python and Boto3, I automated cloud operations, strengthened AWS security through IAM role-based and private network architecture, and migrated self-managed Redis on EC2 to ElastiCache for Redis to enhance scalability.

I focus on measurable outcomes: reducing annual AWS costs by ~$111K via EC2 Savings Plans and RDS Reserved Instance optimization, cutting deployment time by 80% through Docker and AWS Elastic Beanstalk optimization, and enabling faster incident detection with a centralized monitoring platform. I bring hands-on CI/CD ownership across Jenkins and AWS/Azure pipelines, plus cloud certifications in AWS and Azure.