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Gopinath Reddy Narayan

Detroit,USA

Summary

AWS DevOps Engineer with extensive experience at Ford Motor Company, specializing in CI/CD pipeline automation and AWS resource optimization. Achieved a 40% increase in deployment efficiency through expert use of Terraform and Jenkins. Enhanced collaboration across teams, resulting in improved operational uptime and system reliability.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
6
6

Certifications

Work History

AWS DevOps Engineer

U.S
Detroit, MI
10.2023 - Current
  • Successfully coordinated and executed 100+ weekend production deployments with zero downtime, ensuring critical application availability for business operation and Streamlined deployment processes for lower environments (Dev, QA, Staging) by automating CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment time by 40% and minimizing human errors,Reduced weekend on-call incidents by 25% by enhancing monitoring and alerting during critical production deployments
  • Automated provisioning using Terraform and Terragrunt across multi-account AWS infrastructure
  • Managed Kubernetes (EKS and on-prem), enabling HA and compliance with federal security controls
  • Integrated observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, and custom Python metrics exporters
  • Maintained Jenkins pipelines integrated with GitHub, SonarQube, Nexus, and ArgoCD
  • Designed Helm charts for healthcare microservices and enabled zero-downtime deployments
  • Implemented AWS RBAC, Secrets Manager, and integrated with HashiCorp Vault for secure access
  • Delivered 24/7 SRE support for production systems, improving uptime and incident response.

AWS DevOps EngineerJan

Ally Financial
Detroit, MI
01.2021 - 10.2023
  • Achievements:Successfully led the Bitbucket to GitHub migration for 40+ enterprise applications, improving source control performance, governance, and GitHub Actions pipeline integrations and Contributed to AWS cost optimization, identifying and implementing savings strategies such as EC2 instance maintenance, EBS cleanup, workspace reassignments, and reserved instance planning—achieving up to 20% cost reduction across targeted resources,Supported optimization of AWS service usage, including EC2, WorkSpaces, RDS, and EKS, focusing on cost-effective scaling and right-sizing initiatives based on monthly spend analysis (e.g., EC2 ~55% of total cost).,Worked on AWS environment cleanup and monitoring—removing unused resources (snapshots, EBS volumes), adding custom alerts, and reducing operational overhead
  • Standardized infrastructure provisioning using Terraform for AWS resources, including EC2, VPC, EKS, ALB, and S3, decreasing manual configuration errors by 95% and boosting overall system stability
  • Automated CI/CD using Jenkins, GitLab, Ansible, and Python, deploying applications across hybrid platforms
  • Managed lifecycle policies for data archival from S3 to Glacier; developed Python automation for AWS services
  • Migrated Git workflows from Bitbucket to GitLab, conducting user training and documentation
  • Enabled OpenShift container orchestration with secure access and custom storage provisioning.

DevOps

Ford Motor Company
Dearborn, MI
01.2020 - 12.2020
  • Designed and implemented Terraform-backed Jenkins pipelines to automate AWS infrastructure provisioning and application deployments, streamlining delivery cycles.Built VRA/VRO automation blueprints to allow the operations team to self-serve server provisioning, reducing manual efforts and improving provisioning turnaround time by over 50
  • Designed and implemented full CI/CD pipelines for microservices on AWS using Jenkins, Ansible, and Terraform
  • Integrated Databricks and AWS Lambda for data processing use cases
  • Created OpenShift YAML templates and infrastructure automation with vRealize and VMware
  • Designed infrastructure diagrams and roadmaps for Ford’s data protection platforms.

DevOps Engineer

Accenture Federal Services
Reston, Virginia
04.2019 - 12.2019
  • Successfully engineered and deployed an automated Kafka monitoring solution using Ansible playbooks and a custom Python health-check script, eliminating manual monitoring tasks and reducing incident response time by 40%.Spearheaded production rollout of Kafka monitoring automation across multiple servers, enabling proactive detection of service degradations and contributing to a 25% improvement in operational efficiency and system uptime
  • Built Kafka pipelines on AWS for real-time data processing using Python-based consumers and producers
  • Automated EC2, VPC, and SNS provisioning via Terraform and Ansible
  • Integrated Kafka Connect with relational/NoSQL databases and developed monitoring scripts in Bash.

DevOps EngineerJan

Ford Motor Company
Dearborn, MI
01.2017 - 03.2019
  • Built and maintained robust CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, AccuRev, and SonarQube, enabling seamless multi-environment deployments and reducing release cycle time by 30%.Developed scalable deployment automation scripts in Python and Bash for complex, large-scale applications, decreasing manual deployment efforts by 50% and minimizing errors.Collaborated cross-functionally with developers, testers, and QA teams to enhance agile delivery workflows, resulting in a 25% improvement in sprint velocity and deployment frequency
  • Built and maintained CI/CD processes using Jenkins, AccuRev, and SonarQube for multi-environment deployments
  • Developed deployment automation scripts in Python and Bash for large-scale applications
  • Collaborated with developers, testers, and QA teams to support agile delivery practices.

Education

USAMaster’s - Computer Science

California State University
California
01.2015

Computer Science

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad
01.2013

Skills

  • Cloud services: AWS (EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, CloudWatch, Lambda, S3, ALB)
  • Automation tools: Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Bash scripting
  • CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
  • Container technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift
  • Monitoring and logging: Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, OpenSearch
  • Kafka ecosystem: Kafka Connect, Schema Registry
  • Version control systems: Git, GitLab, Bitbucket
  • Package management: Artifactory, Nexus
  • Programming languages: Python, Bash
  • Operating systems: Linux (RedHat, Ubuntu), Windows

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (2019)
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation (2019)
  • HashiCorp Terraform Associate (2020)
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator – CKA (2021)
  • Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals (Course Certificate)
  • AWS Machine Learning Associate Certified -2025

Languages

  • English (Native)
  • German (Fluent)
  • French (Conversational)

Timeline

AWS DevOps Engineer

U.S
10.2023 - Current

AWS DevOps EngineerJan

Ally Financial
01.2021 - 10.2023

DevOps

Ford Motor Company
01.2020 - 12.2020

DevOps Engineer

Accenture Federal Services
04.2019 - 12.2019

DevOps EngineerJan

Ford Motor Company
01.2017 - 03.2019

USAMaster’s - Computer Science

California State University

Computer Science

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

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