I am a Cloud Engineer with nearly 4 years of experience building and managing AWS infrastructure using Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, Python (Boto3), and CI/CD pipelines. I have helped accelerate environment provisioning, reduce cloud costs, and improve incident response through automated monitoring and robust deployment practices. I thrive in cross-team collaboration and enjoy standardizing DevOps workflows to drive reliability and efficiency. My focus areas include IAM least-privilege, KMS encryption, and secure S3 policies to maintain strong security postures and high uptime. I enjoy solving complex problems, learning new technologies, and sharing knowledge through runbooks, guides, and documentation to empower teammates and ensure operational readiness.

Santhosh Adla

I am a Cloud Engineer with nearly 4 years of experience building and managing AWS infrastructure using Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, Python (Boto3), and CI/CD pipelines. I have helped accelerate environment provisioning, reduce cloud costs, and improve incident response through automated monitoring and robust deployment practices. I thrive in cross-team collaboration and enjoy standardizing DevOps workflows to drive reliability and efficiency. My focus areas include IAM least-privilege, KMS encryption, and secure S3 policies to maintain strong security postures and high uptime. I enjoy solving complex problems, learning new technologies, and sharing knowledge through runbooks, guides, and documentation to empower teammates and ensure operational readiness.

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I am a Cloud Engineer with nearly 4 years of experience building and managing AWS infrastructure using Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, Python (Boto3), and CI/CD pipelines. I have helped accelerate environment provisioning, reduce cloud costs, and improve incident response through automated monitoring and robust deployment practices. I thrive in cross-team collaboration and enjoy standardizing DevOps workflows to drive reliability and efficiency.

My focus areas include IAM least-privilege, KMS encryption, and secure S3 policies to maintain strong security postures and high uptime. I enjoy solving complex problems, learning new technologies, and sharing knowledge through runbooks, guides, and documentation to empower teammates and ensure operational readiness.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Cloud Engineer at Synchrony Financial
January 1, 2025 - November 10, 2025
Accelerated infrastructure deployment by 50% using modular Terraform templates for EC2, RDS, VPC, and IAM, ensuring consistent provisioning across development, testing, and production environments while reducing errors and manual effort. Automated cleanup of orphaned EC2 volumes, unused snapshots, and S3 objects using Python (Boto3), saving $1,200 monthly in cloud costs and improving governance, resource utilization, and operational efficiency across teams. Reduced mean time to resolution by 40% by implementing CloudWatch dashboards, alarms, and notifications to monitor CPU, memory, disk, and application logs for proactive detection and faster incident response. Achieved 99.95% uptime by deploying Docker containers to EKS with rolling updates, health checks, and resource limits, supporting high-availability services during maintenance and production deployments. Strengthened cloud security posture by enforcing IAM least-privilege roles, KMS encryption, and S3 policies, passing quarterl
DevOps Engineer - Associate at Accenture
July 1, 2023 - July 1, 2023
Increased CI/CD reliability by 60% using Jenkins and GitHub Actions with automated tests, rollback mechanisms, and notifications for 20+ internal microservices across distributed global teams and environments. Reduced provisioning errors by 70% through Terraform modules for VPCs, EC2 instances, subnets, and IAM roles in client-specific AWS environments, improving deployment accuracy, repeatability, and operational efficiency consistently. Improved PostgreSQL availability by 30% using RDS snapshots, read replicas, and performance monitoring, minimizing downtime during high-traffic periods. Integrated Prometheus and Grafana for real-time monitoring, detecting performance bottlenecks 25% faster across CPU, memory, latency, and application metrics, enhancing observability and proactive issue resolution. Accelerated release cycles by 40% by standardizing Git workflows, branch naming conventions, merge templates, and linters, improving collaboration and deployment efficiency across DevOps an
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Junior at InfraCloud Technologies
June 1, 2021 - June 1, 2021
Increased deployment reliability by 35% by containerizing applications using Docker and deploying to Kubernetes with YAML configurations, probes, resource quotas, and namespace isolation. Automated IAM audits, EC2 volume checks, and log rotation using Bash scripts and AWS CLI, saving 25 hours monthly while ensuring operational compliance and reporting. Reduced incident triage time by 50% by integrating CloudWatch logs with ELK stack for structured error tracking and faster resolution. Designed and implemented VPCs, subnets, route tables, and security groups to isolate dev, test, and production environments, improving network security and reducing cross-environment conflicts. Onboarded six engineers by maintaining runbooks, CI/CD guides, and rollback procedures to accelerate knowledge transfer and incident response readiness.

Education

Master of Science in Information Systems at Saint Louis University
January 11, 2030 - May 1, 2025
Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering at CMR Institute of Technology, Telangana, IN
January 11, 2030 - July 1, 2021

Qualifications

AWS Solutions Architect Associate
January 1, 2025 - November 10, 2025
GitHub Foundations Certificate
April 1, 2025 - November 10, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services