Nisarg Pendal

I’m a Senior DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and operating production-grade cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I specialize in Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE), Terraform IaC, and CI/CD automation in multi-cloud environments at enterprise scale.

I’ve delivered measurable platform outcomes: 88% faster deployment cycles, 60% infrastructure cost reduction, and failure rates cut from 15% to 2% across real production environments. I currently operate an enterprise-scale Kubernetes platform across dozens of AWS accounts (300+ application repositories) and run production AI/RAG infrastructure on GCP GKE.

In my work, I focus on secure-by-design operations and DevSecOps enforcement: IAM least-privilege, Kubernetes RBAC, Workload Identity, secrets management, and hard pipeline gates with SAST/DAST and container scanning. For Kubernetes, I drive zero-downtime deployments and platform guardrails—using Argo CD, Kargo, and service-mesh patterns like Istio ambient/ztunnel or Envoy gateway to support zero-trust communication.

I also bring deep automation and reliability instincts to infrastructure: monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana and Datadog, Terraform-driven provisioning with remote state and plan/apply on pull requests, and performance-aware tuning for production workloads (including inference queue depth, HPA behavior, and disruption budgets). I enjoy building systems that teams can confidently operate under real-world scale and change.