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NIKET MALIHALLI

Austin,TX

Summary

DevOps/Cloud/SRE engineer with 5+ years of experience designing, automating, and scaling AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes infrastructures for Fortune 500 companies and federal agencies. Proven expertise in Terraform IaC, CI/CD, automation, observability, and secure data handling (PII/PHI). Adept at delivering highly available, cost-optimized, and compliant systems, while leading cross-functional initiatives that reduce operational overhead and accelerate time-to-market.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Technical Senior Analyst (Client: NIH)

Guidehouse
08.2024 - 07.2025
  • Refactored NIH BioArt cloud infrastructure by migrating to Terraform-based IaC and AWS services (ECS, S3, RDS, IAM), improving scalability and reducing operational overhead by 30%.
  • Enhanced security & compliance through least-privilege IAM roles, KMS-encrypted S3 buckets, and fine-grained AWS security groups, ensuring federal compliance for PII/PHI.
  • Automated weekly compliance reporting and Jira ticket creation using Python, cutting manual effort by 70% and ensuring timely audits.
  • Built CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, reducing release cycles by 40% and standardizing deployment workflows.

DevOps Engineer

Enthought
10.2023 - 03.2024
  • Containerized and deployed applications on EKS with Helm and Karpenter, improving compute utilization by ~25%.
  • Automated AWS infrastructure using Terraform, including VPCs, security groups, IAM policies, and EC2/EKS clusters, ensuring repeatable and version-controlled provisioning.
  • Implemented monitoring and observability with Prometheus and Grafana, along with AWS CloudWatch, to track system performance, visualize metrics, and configure alerting, reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR) for incidents.
  • Integrated HashiCorp Vault with Kubernetes via Vault Secrets Operator, improving security and simplifying secrets management.

System Development Engineer, Intern

Amazon
05.2022 - 08.2022
  • Developed Packet Capture Analysis Application using Python and Bash to automate the analysis of packet capture files from Elastic Load Balancers and generated automated reports. This resulted in an ~80% reduction in capture analysis time.
  • Implemented data sanitization pipelines to anonymize sensitive packet data (MACs, passwords, addresses, phone numbers), safeguarding user privacy.
  • Built a CI/CD pipeline supporting 100+ unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, increasing release confidence and reducing regressions.

Software Engineer

Lowe's Home Improvement
08.2017 - 05.2021
  • Developed a Kafka–Redis–Spring Boot solution to handle Black Friday/Cyber Monday transactions for 2100+ stores, preventing payment delays and ensuring reliability.
  • Migrated on-prem workloads (Node.js, Python, Java, WebSphere) to GCP (GCE, GKE, Cloud Storage), improving scalability and reducing infrastructure costs.
  • Developed and maintained scalable infrastructure with Terraform (IaC) to create platform on GCP for applications supporting Lowes.com and Lowesforpros.com. This effort included the implementation of Kubernetes for efficient application management and scaling, which resulted in a 50% reduction in deployment time and a ~30% increase in resource utilization efficiency.
  • Engineered secure and scalable network Infrastructure by setting up Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) on GCP, including the configuration of subnets, routing tables, security groups, and network access control lists.
  • Designed and deployed Istio Service Mesh integrated with Prometheus and Grafana, culminating in a 15-minute reduction in incident response time.
  • Led the development of Ansible playbooks to automate the patching of 800+ virtual machines supporting the production environment, reducing manual efforts by an estimated 90% and implementation time by ~60%.
  • Streamlined CI/CD with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitOps, accelerating release cycles and improving consistency.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

Indiana University - Bloomington
Bloomington, IN
05.2023

Bachelor’s of Engineering - Computer Science

Gogte Institute of Technology
Belagavi, India
05.2017

Skills

  • AWS GCP Saas Paas Iaas Site Reliability Engineering Platform Engineering Cloud Computing Digital Infrastructure Telemetry
  • Microservices Kubernetes Docker Spinnaker Prometheus Grafana Karpernet Vault Terraform Confluent Kafka Ansible CI/CD
  • Python GoLang React JS Java Springboot EKS CloudFormation OOP Jenkins Linux Route53 VPC PostgreSQL Lambda S3

Certification

• Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization Coursera

• Structuring Machine Learning Projects Coursera

• Neural Networks and Deep Learning Coursera

Timeline

Technical Senior Analyst (Client: NIH)

Guidehouse
08.2024 - 07.2025

DevOps Engineer

Enthought
10.2023 - 03.2024

System Development Engineer, Intern

Amazon
05.2022 - 08.2022

Software Engineer

Lowe's Home Improvement
08.2017 - 05.2021

Master of Science - Computer Science

Indiana University - Bloomington

Bachelor’s of Engineering - Computer Science

Gogte Institute of Technology

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