Prashast Kumar
Fremont,USA
Summary
Accomplished DevOps Engineer with extensive experience at Twilio, specializing in cloud migration and infrastructure optimization. Proficient in Terraform and CI/CD pipelines, I drive cost savings and ensure compliance. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams, I deliver high availability and performance in complex environments while maintaining a focus on security and efficiency.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
DevOps Engineer - L3
Twilio
San Francisco, USA
02.2020 - Current
- Led the end-to-end migration of Mobile Identity's infrastructure from GCP to AWS across 8 regions in an active-active, SOC 2-compliant architecture, ensuring high availability and regulatory alignment.
- Engineered a modular, multi-region infrastructure-as-code framework using Terraform, with shared services, regional overrides, and remote state isolation for safe, repeatable deployments.
- Developed a secure CI/CD pipeline using Buildkite with integrated approval gates, S3 artifact management, release validation, AMI lifecycle automation, and multi-region rollout via ASG refreshes.
- Designed and implemented centralized logging and monitoring pipeline with rsyslog, Sumo Logic, and Nagios, enhancing regional observability through custom health checks and dashboard insights by merchant, carrier, and key performance metrics.
- Achieved zero vulnerabilities in external penetration testing while generating $3,754/month in cost savings through infrastructure right-sizing and architectural optimizations.
Multicloud DevOps Engineer
SAP
Palo Alto, USA
10.2018 - 01.2020
- Contributed to the design, implementation, and scaling of SAP’s multi-cloud foundational footprint across AWS and Azure, including IAM, VPC/networking, security controls, and cost governance.
- Partnered with solution architects to implement cloud best practices across networking, automation, and compliance domains, enhancing operational integrity.
- Drove infrastructure automation and standardization efforts across multiple LoBs using scripting and templated deployment frameworks.
- Supported 24×7 global cloud operations, troubleshooting and optimizing Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure services for SAP’s line-of-business platforms.
DevOps Engineer
Pramata
San Francisco, USA
09.2017 - 01.2020
- Supported and modernized Pramata's production cloud by migrating customer workloads from physical servers to AWS, designing scalable VPC architectures and ensuring high availability and performance across environments.
- Implemented cloud monitoring and alerting pipelines with New Relic and custom scripts, facilitating proactive remediation of infrastructure issues to enhance system reliability.
- Conducted R&D on automation workflows, implementing scripts and tools that streamlined provisioning, patching, and environment setup, reducing manual effort and increasing deployment speed.
- Built a Configuration Management (CM) framework using Chef from the ground up, including cookbook development and role-based node classification.
Education
MS - Computer Networking
San Jose State University
San Jose05-2017
Skills
Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Harness)
- CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Buildkite, GitHub)
- Containerization (Docker)
- Orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS)
- Configuration management (Ansible, Chef)
- Linux administration
- Scripting (Python)
- Monitoring tools (Sumo Logic, Datadog)
- Network security
- Security incident management
- Business continuity
- Cloud architecture
- Compliance audits (SOC 2, ISO)
- Database management (MySQL, Couchbase, Aurora, Redshift)
- Resource management
- Tableau
- Kong Gateway
Accomplishments
Led the end-to-end migration of Mobile Identity’s infrastructure from Google Cloud Platform to Amazon Web Services across 8 regions in an active-active, SOC 2–compliant architecture, achieving zero downtime; optimized Amazon Redshift to reduce monthly costs from $15,000 to $1,325 (~91% savings); and strengthened production security posture by eliminating SSH/SSM access, significantly reducing the attack surface.
Timeline
DevOps Engineer - L3
Twilio
02.2020 - Current
Multicloud DevOps Engineer
SAP
10.2018 - 01.2020
DevOps Engineer
Pramata
09.2017 - 01.2020
MS - Computer Networking
San Jose State University