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Nikhil B Kumar

@nikhilbkumar

I build reliable AWS platforms with Kubernetes, automation, and observability.

United States
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At T-Mobile, I design and operate highly available AWS infrastructure for business-critical telecom services using EKS, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, EC2, Auto Scaling, and Load Balancers. I use SLOs, SLIs, service-health metrics, and capacity planning to keep production performance aligned with customer and business needs.

I automated CI/CD and release engineering with GitLab CI/CD and Terraform, reducing deployment time by 40%. I also built Datadog and CloudWatch observability that reduced MTTR by 30%, while leading incident response, root cause analysis, and on-call support.

Previously at Fidelity Investments, I engineered secure cloud infrastructure for high-throughput financial applications and helped achieve an RTO under 10 minutes through multi-region disaster recovery and failover testing. At Wyndham Hotels, I migrated more than 150 services from Pivotal Cloud Foundry to Kubernetes on Amazon EKS and reduced deployment failures by 25%.

Across telecom, financial services, hospitality, and enterprise environments, I build resilient platforms through Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, security controls, and operational automation. I also mentor DevOps and SRE engineers and create runbooks and standards that improve operational readiness.

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Southern New Hampshire University logoSU

Southern New Hampshire University

Master of Technology, Information Technology

Grade: 3.8/4

Master of Technology in Information Technology from Southern New Hampshire University, completed in 2016 with a GPA of 3.8/4.

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Vignan's Lara

Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering

Grade: 9/10

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Vignan's Lara, completed in 2014 with a GPA of 9/10.

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Site Reliability EngineeringReliability EngineeringProduction Reliabilityservice reliabilitySLOsSLIs SLO SLAsSLAError BudgetsReliability KPIsAvailabilityResilienceService HealthOperational ExcellenceToil ReductionProduction EngineeringIncident ManagementIncident ResponseOn call SupportEscalation ManagementMajor Incident ManagementRoot Cause AnalysisPost Incident ReviewPostmortemsProblem ManagementMTTR ReductionMTTD ReductionCorrective ActionsPreventive ActionsAWSEC2Amazon EKSAWS ECSFargateLambdaRDSS3IAMVPCCloudwatchKMSAutoScalingAWS Elastic Load Balancing ...Route 53Multi AZMulti RegionServerless ArchitectureTerraformCloudFormationAnsibleChefInfrastructure AutomationInfrastructure ProvisioningConfiguration ManagementPolicy as CodeInfrastructure Drift ManagementKubernetesDockerHelmKubernetes OperatorsGitOpsContainer SecurityContainer NetworkingCluster Management SoftwarePod ManagementDatadogDynatracePrometheusGrafanaSplunkNagiosMetricsLogsTracesDistributed TracingA PMDashboardingAlertingSynthetic MonitoringObservabilityGitLab CI CDAWS CodePipelineAzure DevOpsCI CD PipelinesContinuous IntegrationContinuous DeliveryContinuous DeploymentRelease AutomationDeployment AutomationTesting AutomationPipeline SecurityBlue Green DeploymentCanary DeploymentRolling Ramped DeploymentsPythonShell ScriptingBASHOperational AutomationRunbook AutomationSelf Healing AutomationScheduled JobsAutomated RemediationHigh AvailabilityFault ToleranceResilience EngineeringDisaster RecoveryBusiness ContinuityMulti region architectureFailoverBackup And RecoveryRTORPODRP TestingChaos EngineeringFailure RecoveryZero Downtime DeploymentsPerformance EngineeringPerformance OptimizationCapacity PlanningResource utilizationLoad TestingPerformance TestingScalabilityBottleneck AnalysisLatency OptimizationThroughput optimizationResource ForecastingRBACEncryptionSecrets ManagementVulnerability ManagementSecurity scanningDevSecOpsLeast PrivilegeAccess ControlSecurity AutomationComplianceGDPRLinuxRed HatCentOSSystem AdministrationProcess ManagementSystem TroubleshootingNetworkingDNSTCP IPSSL TLSSystem HardeningPatch ManagementPlatform EngineeringDeveloper ExperienceInternal Developer PlatformGolden PathsStandardizationReusable InfrastructureSelf Service InfrastructurePlatform AutomationOperational ReadinessPostgreSQLMicroservicesREST APIsJavaReactReact NativeGitGitlabJiraConfluenceDocumentationRun BooksKnowledge SharingAgileScrumCross Functional CollaborationVMWareOktaPCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry)

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