Sandeep Dhungana

I’m a Cloud & Platform Engineer with 3 years of experience designing, automating, and troubleshooting AWS cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms. I build reliable infrastructure with Terraform-based infrastructure as code, implement CI/CD and platform tooling, and focus on production readiness through observability and incident remediation.

In my current role at Ellucian as Cloud Engineer II, I’ve built reusable Terraform infrastructure for VPC, IAM, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, EC2, and RDS using S3 remote backend, imports, and workspaces to improve deployment consistency. I developed ECS image redeployment automation that reduced deployment effort from 45+ minutes to under 10 minutes, built an internal CMDB using Bash automation and stored metadata in DynamoDB to cut lookup time from 5–10 minutes to seconds, and contributed Python-based platform SDKs deployed on AWS Lambda to streamline AWS abstractions and deployment workflows.

Previously as Cloud Engineer I, I implemented Terraform provisioning with drift remediation across customer and sandbox environments, supported Jenkins and GitOps/Bitbucket/ZappCD pipelines, and built self-service automation for PSU patching, Oracle patching, and database clone validation—reducing operational effort from hours to under 10 minutes. Earlier, as an intern, I supported Terraform, Ansible, AWS, and production tooling; my work is driven by hands-on automation, operational efficiency, and stable platform delivery.