I’m a senior AWS DevOps engineer with 15+ years in cloud infrastructure, IaC, CI/CD, and large-scale migrations in finance. I’m passionate about building secure, compliant architectures and helping teams automate complex workflows. I specialize in designing scalable AWS-based systems, automating provisioning and patching with Ansible, and delivering reliable pipelines with GitLab CI/CD and ArgoCD.

Girish K Gowda

I’m a senior AWS DevOps engineer with 15+ years in cloud infrastructure, IaC, CI/CD, and large-scale migrations in finance. I’m passionate about building secure, compliant architectures and helping teams automate complex workflows. I specialize in designing scalable AWS-based systems, automating provisioning and patching with Ansible, and delivering reliable pipelines with GitLab CI/CD and ArgoCD.

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I’m a senior AWS DevOps engineer with 15+ years in cloud infrastructure, IaC, CI/CD, and large-scale migrations in finance. I’m passionate about building secure, compliant architectures and helping teams automate complex workflows. I specialize in designing scalable AWS-based systems, automating provisioning and patching with Ansible, and delivering reliable pipelines with GitLab CI/CD and ArgoCD.

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Work Experience

Senior Cloud/DevOps Consultant at UBS / DELL
January 1, 2024 - January 1, 2026
Automated RHEL provisioning, patching, and compliance with Ansible playbooks/roles; Developed Python/Bash scripts for storage inventory and monitoring (NetApp, Dell EMC); Led Ansible adoption; migrated legacy scripts; trained junior engineers; Managed zero-downtime VMware + storage migrations with AWS integration; Implemented auditing, RBAC, and encryption aligned to financial regulations
Senior DevOps / AWS Cloud Engineer at Crypto Finance Group
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2024
Architected scalable 3-tier microservices on Amazon EKS using Terraform IaC; Built GitLab CI/CD + ArgoCD pipelines for Java applications on EKS; Deployed serverless (Lambda, SQS, EventBridge) and containerized workloads; Configured VPC, Security Groups, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch; Managed AWS RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Glue, Athena for data analytics; Optimized costs and performance post-migration with AWS Cost Explorer
DevOps Engineer at UBS / EPAM
January 1, 2022 - January 1, 2023
Automated AML system deployments via GitLab CI/CD pipelines; Provisioned hybrid AWS infrastructure with Ansible + Terraform; Achieved 98% automated patching compliance; Implemented HashiCorp Vault + Ansible Vault for secrets in CI/CD; Built custom Ansible execution environments for secure RHEL deployments
Cloud Migration & Storage Consultant at Credit Suisse / DELL
August 1, 2017 - January 1, 2022
Led 50,000+ user data migrations (NAS → AWS S3/ECS-compatible); Performed VMware-to-AWS migrations using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery & VM Import; Executed zero-downtime storage transitions with AWS integration; Managed NetApp → AWS S3/Glacier data movement and lifecycle policies
AWS Cloud Consultant at Clyde & Co
September 1, 2014 - June 1, 2017
Designed and executed on-premises to AWS migrations (Elastic Disaster Recovery, DMS); Deployed scalable IaaS/PaaS (EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, ECS/EKS precursors); Built CI/CD pipelines with AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy; Secured environments with AWS IAM, KMS, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, Macie; Optimized post-migration with CloudWatch, Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor
January 1, 2011 - January 1, 2014
VMware/Linux infrastructure with early AWS hybrid connectivity; Storage and server migrations preparing for cloud adoption

Education

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Qualifications

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science
January 11, 2030 - January 23, 2026
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional (experienced)
January 11, 2030 - January 23, 2026
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
January 11, 2030 - January 23, 2026
Microsoft Azure Certified
January 11, 2030 - January 23, 2026
Google Cloud Certified
January 11, 2030 - January 23, 2026
NetApp Certified
January 11, 2030 - January 23, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Professional Services, Computers & Electronics