I'm Saugat Tiwari, a Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer based in Kathmandu, Nepal. I design, automate, secure, and operate AWS-based distributed systems handling 1M+ transactions daily, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and secure-by-default architecture. I lead automation initiatives across teams, implement Infrastructure as Code with Terraform/Terragrunt, maintain CI/CD pipelines, and drive cloud best practices from legacy migrations to modern containerized and serverless deployments. I'm passionate about collaboration and continuous improvement, delivering observable, secure systems with strong incident response and governance.

Saugat Tiwari

I'm Saugat Tiwari, a Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer based in Kathmandu, Nepal. I design, automate, secure, and operate AWS-based distributed systems handling 1M+ transactions daily, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and secure-by-default architecture. I lead automation initiatives across teams, implement Infrastructure as Code with Terraform/Terragrunt, maintain CI/CD pipelines, and drive cloud best practices from legacy migrations to modern containerized and serverless deployments. I'm passionate about collaboration and continuous improvement, delivering observable, secure systems with strong incident response and governance.

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I’m Saugat Tiwari, a Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer based in Kathmandu, Nepal. I design, automate, secure, and operate AWS-based distributed systems handling 1M+ transactions daily, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and secure-by-default architecture.

I lead automation initiatives across teams, implement Infrastructure as Code with Terraform/Terragrunt, maintain CI/CD pipelines, and drive cloud best practices from legacy migrations to modern containerized and serverless deployments. I’m passionate about collaboration and continuous improvement, delivering observable, secure systems with strong incident response and governance.

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Work Experience

DevOps Engineer at Adex International Pvt. Ltd
October 1, 2022 - Present
Own the design and operation of highly available AWS infrastructure (EC2, VPC, S3, RDS) across multi-AZ architectures; design secure networking and access controls using VPCs, security groups, and IAM least-privilege; lead infrastructure automation with Terraform, Terragrunt, and Ansible; build and operate CI/CD pipelines with AWS CodePipeline and GitHub Actions with automated validation and rollback safety; deploy and manage containerized workloads on ECS; establish monitoring, logging, and alerting using CloudWatch; collaborate with development, security, and operations teams on infrastructure and architectural changes.
DevOps Engineer (Contract) at Certegy Payment Solutions
August 1, 2023 - September 1, 2025
Led legacy application migration from FIS to AWS, modernizing payment systems while maintaining uninterrupted service for platforms processing 1M+ daily transactions; designed secure and resilient AWS architectures with encryption at rest, IAM controls, AWS WAF, and defense-in-depth security; reduced audit-detected vulnerabilities by 40% through security automation and secure-by-design practices; designed and deployed containerized and serverless architectures using AWS ECS, Kubernetes, Lambda, API Gateway, and Step Functions; built a scalable IVR REST API for real-time transaction processing with Redis caching and ECR image management; implemented GitOps-based multi-environment deployments enabling safe promotions across dev → QA → production; designed and operated enterprise-grade certificate management supporting mTLS, WSS, and JWT with AppViewX on AWS ECS Fargate; standardized Nginx configuration management with GitHub and CI/CD pipelines for auditable and rollback-safe deploym
Junior DevOps Engineer at Genese Solution Pvt. Ltd
May 1, 2022 - October 1, 2022
Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Ansible, and Packer; configured and managed CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and AWS CodePipeline; monitored infrastructure using Nagios and AWS CloudWatch; configured AWS SES and Sendy for high-volume email delivery, improving deliverability.
DevOps Engineer Intern at Genese Solution Pvt. Ltd
March 1, 2022 - May 1, 2022
Gained hands-on experience with AWS cloud services; assisted in setting up cloud-based environments; troubleshot and resolved application and infrastructure issues.

Education

BSc in Computer Science and Information Technology at Tribhuvan University, BernHardt College
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2021

Qualifications

AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional
January 11, 2030 - January 23, 2026
PagerDuty Administrator Certification
January 11, 2030 - January 23, 2026
AWS Developer Associate
January 11, 2030 - January 23, 2026
AWS Solutions Architect
January 11, 2030 - January 23, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Professional Services

Experience Level

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