Hi, I’m Rahul Gaonkar. I’m a cloud engineer with 5+ years of experience focusing on AWS and Google Cloud. I design scalable, cost-optimized, and highly available infrastructure, with strong skills in automation, monitoring, and incident response. I’ve collaborated with teams in banking, real estate, and media domains, deploying infrastructure as code with Terraform, managing Kubernetes (EKS), implementing disaster recovery, and optimizing costs with RI/Savings Plans. I enjoy partnering with developers to deliver reliable cloud platforms and secure systems.

Rahul Gaonkar

Hi, I’m Rahul Gaonkar. I’m a cloud engineer with 5+ years of experience focusing on AWS and Google Cloud. I design scalable, cost-optimized, and highly available infrastructure, with strong skills in automation, monitoring, and incident response. I’ve collaborated with teams in banking, real estate, and media domains, deploying infrastructure as code with Terraform, managing Kubernetes (EKS), implementing disaster recovery, and optimizing costs with RI/Savings Plans. I enjoy partnering with developers to deliver reliable cloud platforms and secure systems.

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Hi, I’m Rahul Gaonkar. I’m a cloud engineer with 5+ years of experience focusing on AWS and Google Cloud. I design scalable, cost-optimized, and highly available infrastructure, with strong skills in automation, monitoring, and incident response.

I’ve collaborated with teams in banking, real estate, and media domains, deploying infrastructure as code with Terraform, managing Kubernetes (EKS), implementing disaster recovery, and optimizing costs with RI/Savings Plans. I enjoy partnering with developers to deliver reliable cloud platforms and secure systems.

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Language

English
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Work Experience

Cloud Delivery Engineer II at Mindcraft Software Pvt Ltd
August 1, 2023 - Present
Responsible for managing AWS infrastructure (VPC, subnets, ENI, load balancers, DNS); monitoring resources with AWS Analytics and CloudWatch; creating alerts for utilization metrics; cost optimization through VM patching, start/stop automation, and auto patching via Lambda/EventBridge; implemented AWS Transit Gateway to enable secure cross-account networking; managed IAM, cross-account access, and SSO; administered Kubernetes clusters on EKS and monitored with CloudWatch and Grafana; configured VPN gateways (S2S/P2S); DR drills using snapshots/AMIs; OS patching and security hardening; collaborated with development teams for reliable deployments.
Cloud Support Engineer / AWS Support Engineer at Randstad India
December 1, 2020 - August 1, 2023
Created IAM users, managed access controls, and adjusted EC2 instance types; maintained EBS snapshots; configured VPCs, EC2, and ELB; provisioned and troubleshot EC2 instances; migrated on-premise setups to AWS; created S3 buckets and automated log storage using PowerShell; automated events with Python; implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins; resolved infrastructure incidents, monitoring, and performance reporting.

Education

Bachelor of Science (Comp. Sci.) at Gss College, Belgaum
January 11, 2030 - September 1, 2020

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Industry Experience

Financial Services, Media & Entertainment, Software & Internet, Professional Services