Henil Donda

I’m a results-driven DevOps Engineer with 14 months of hands-on experience (internship + full-time) building and maintaining cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes-based systems on AWS. I’m self-taught and bring a strong practical focus to every deployment, with an emphasis on measurable outcomes like faster releases, lower infrastructure costs, and stronger security.

In my current role, I architected an event-driven CI/CD notification pipeline using AWS services (Amplify, EventBridge, SNS, SQS, Lambda) to deliver real-time build status alerts to MS Teams—improving deployment visibility and team response time. I also reduced false failures and unnecessary restarts by fixing Kubernetes health checks via Helm and ArgoCD, and I strengthened security by removing hardcoded Kubernetes credentials through External Secrets Operator + AWS Secrets Manager.

I further improved credential safety by migrating GitHub Actions from static AWS access keys to OIDC-based IAM role federation, and I built full-stack observability with Prometheus metrics collection, Grafana dashboards, and PagerDuty alerting to reduce mean time to resolution. I’ve led migrations like a zero-downtime Pritunl VPN move from self-hosted MongoDB on EC2 to MongoDB Atlas, while consolidating CloudTrail logs in S3 for long-term, queryable compliance and incident investigations.