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Ryan K

@ryank1

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Senior DevOps/SRE engineer delivering resilient Kubernetes platforms and automated CI/CD.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead Kubernetes/EKS platform work—owning SRE reliability, automated CI/CD (GitOps), and FinOps optimization—while mentoring teams and shipping secure, multi-region systems with measurable uptime and faster releases.

I’m a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer with 7+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform. I manage 7+ EKS clusters at 700+ nodes each in multi-region environments, ensuring 99.9%+ uptime for AI-driven SaaS platforms while improving reliability through proactive SRE practices.

I focus on CI/CD automation, GitOps workflows, and FinOps optimization—delivering up to 40% cost reduction and 30% faster release cycles by implementing automated pipelines, rightsizing, and workload optimization. I’ve also built centralized observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK to reduce MTTR by ~40%, enforced DevSecOps controls with Vault and IAM, mentored junior engineers, and driven platform best practices across high-scale production teams.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior DevOps Engineer

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Cipherlogics

Feb 2024 - Present (2 years 2 months)

Directed an AWS EKS Kubernetes platform across 7+ clusters (700+ nodes each), maintaining 99.9% uptime via proactive SRE failover and real-time monitoring. Increased deployment frequency by 30% through automated Terraform/GitOps CI/CD pipelines and reduced AWS infrastructure spend by ~15% annually; also cut MTTR by ~40% with centralized observability and alerting.

Kubernetes Terraform GitOps CI CD Pipelines Prometheus Grafana ELK Stack AutoScaling DevSecOps

DevOps Engineer

Caylent

Jan 2022 - Dec 2023 (1 year 11 months)

Built AWS and Kubernetes cloud modernization solutions, including production-grade EKS migrations and production-ready CI/CD for consistent multi-environment releases. Streamlined infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and CloudFormation (cutting setup from hours to under one hour) and enabled zero-downtime blue-green and canary deployments.

Kubernetes Terraform AWS CloudFormation CI CD Pipelines Blue Green Deployment Prometheus Grafana

DevOps Engineer (Associate)

Netsol Technologies

Jun 2020 - Dec 2021 (1 year 6 months)

Launched an AWS-based SaaS platform for financial services workloads with 99%+ uptime. Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Azure DevOps, reducing manual effort by ~70% and deployment time from hours to under 30 minutes, while strengthening compliance posture through secure configurations and access controls.

AWS Terraform Azure DevOps Infrastructure as Code Access Control

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES)

Bachelor of Science, Computer & Information Science

2017 - 2021

Earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer & Information Science at FAST-NUCES (2017–2021), focusing on cloud & DevOps (AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD) and Infrastructure as Code. Completed programming and automation coursework in Python, Bash, Git, Terraform, and CloudFormation, with foundational exposure to data pipelines and analytics.