prasanth kumar

I’m a Senior DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience in cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes platform engineering, GitOps-driven delivery, and CI/CD automation in financial technology environments. I bring a strong focus on rigor, compliance, and scalable operations.

In my current role, I own end-to-end management of 3+ production EKS clusters and onboard 80+ microservices using Helm-based zero-downtime deployments and versioned rollout strategies. I implemented GitOps workflows with ArgoCD to enable declarative configuration management, automated sync, and a complete audit trail for every Kubernetes deployment.

I’ve strengthened platform reliability and security by deploying HashiCorp Vault on EKS to centralize secrets management and eliminate hardcoded credentials. I lead proactive end-of-life upgrade cycles for EKS, RDS PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, and DocumentDB—maintaining 99.9%+ availability with no unplanned downtime during transitions.

I also build data and AI/ML enablement pipelines—engineering AWS Glue and EMR Serverless/EMR on EKS workflows, adding Amazon Athena for serverless SQL over S3, and integrating Amazon Bedrock, Textract, Comprehend, and Rekognition to automate document processing and fraud detection. Earlier, I improved EKS efficiency by 30%, reduced operational costs by 65%, and advanced delivery speed by cutting deployment time by 40% through CI/CD and automation.