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Rajesh Sood, MBA
staff cloud & devops engineer · ai/ml platform engineering · aws · kubernetes · terraform · sre · dublin, ireland
15+ years building secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for enterprises across FinTech, Telecom, and Global Manufacturing. Sets platform-wide DevOps and reliability standards across multi-account AWS — architecting the platforms and technical decisions that let engineering orgs ship fast without breaking things. Hands-on GenAI integration using Amazon Bedrock and Claude.
impact_at_a_glance
$200K+
Cloud cost savings delivered
99.99%
Uptime SLA maintained
35%
Faster deploy cycles
15+
Years enterprise cloud experience
45%
MTTR reduction via observability
skills_and_technologies
cloud
AWS
EC2 / EKS / ECS
Lambda
S3 / RDS
Amazon Bedrock
SageMaker
Azure
GCP
Oracle OCI
ai / genai
RAG Pipeline Design
Claude / Titan LLM
GitHub Copilot
Cursor
iac & orchestration
Terraform
CloudFormation
Ansible
Kubernetes
Docker
Helm
ci/cd & gitops
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
ArgoCD
GitLab CI
observability & finops
Prometheus
Grafana
CloudWatch
Splunk
Datadog
SLO / SLI / Error Budget
FinOps Governance
security
Wiz
Snyk
SonarQube
OWASP ZAP
CIS Benchmarks
IAM Zero-Trust
SOC 2 / GDPR / HIPAA
languages
Python
Bash
YAML / HCL
certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Microsoft Azure Certified
Google Cloud Certified
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified
education
MBA — Information Technology
Sikkim Manipal University (SMU)
2013 – 2015 · India
B.E. — Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)
2005 – 2010 · Karnataka, India
Experience
work_history
Senior DevOps Engineer
Oct 2023 – Present
Workday · Dublin, Ireland
Architecting AI/ML platform infrastructure with SageMaker and integrating GenAI capabilities via Amazon Bedrock and Claude.
Driving SRE practices on EKS — maintaining 99.99% uptime SLA, owning incident command, and setting reliability standards.
Delivered 35% cycle-time reduction through CI/CD platform modernisation (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform).
Built AI-powered security automation with Wiz and Snyk, reducing vulnerability remediation time significantly.
Achieved $100K+ FinOps savings through Reserved Instance strategy and right-sizing governance.
Accelerated IaC velocity 25% using GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Bedrock-assisted workflows.
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (SRE)
Sep 2022 – Oct 2023
Protego Technologies Ltd · Dublin, Ireland
SRE for a high-availability FinTech client — designed observability architecture that reduced MTTR by 45%.
Led migration from Datadog to Splunk SignalFx, cutting monitoring costs while improving signal coverage.
Implemented shift-left security in CI/CD (Snyk, SonarQube, OWASP ZAP), reducing vulnerabilities by 40%.
Automated Kubernetes HPA scaling and built Prometheus monitoring pipelines, improving team efficiency by 20%.
Cloud SysOps Engineer (Lead)
Dec 2019 – Aug 2022
Hilti Asia IT Services (HAITS) · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Led cloud operations, security, and compliance across Hilti's global AWS infrastructure spanning 10+ regions (CIS, ISO, SOC 2, GDPR).
Delivered $120K annual cost savings through Reserved Instance strategy and intelligent auto-scaling.
Standardised CI/CD pipelines using CloudFormation across regions, reducing provisioning time by 60%.
Built self-healing infrastructure with AWS Lambda for automated compliance remediation.
Cloud Service Engineer
Jul 2018 – Dec 2019
Maxis · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Designed and deployed 30+ applications on AWS and multi-cloud platforms with high availability.
Led Reserved Instance strategy achieving $80K in annual savings while reducing monthly cloud spend by 15%.
Automated infrastructure provisioning using CloudFormation, Ansible, and Terraform.
Performed vulnerability assessments and security hardening, reducing security incidents by 50%.
ITO Service Delivery Consultant III
Feb 2017 – Jun 2018
DXC Technology · Cyberjaya, Malaysia
Supported hybrid cloud environments (AWS, VMware, Hyper-V) for multiple enterprise clients.
Monitored 300+ AWS instances using CloudWatch & Zabbix.
Improved security posture with CIS benchmarks and developed automation scripts for proactive health checks.
Sr. VMware Administrator L3
Oct 2016 – Jan 2017
Softenger (at HPE) · Cyberjaya, Malaysia
Level 3 VMware Administrator managing virtualisation operations for enterprise clients.
Ensured high availability of vSphere environments and supported cloud migration initiatives.
Sr. IT OS Analyst
Nov 2014 – Oct 2016
Optum / UnitedHealth Group · Noida, India
Provided enterprise IaaS cloud automation using HP BSA Suite, VMware vSphere, and vRA.
Managed Windows & Linux provisioning, optimising infrastructure performance and security for healthcare systems (HIPAA-compliant).
Systems Engineer
2010 – 2014
Dell International / HCL India · India
Early career roles in enterprise IT infrastructure, systems administration, and technical support across large-scale environments.
Projects
github_projects
01
GitOps EKS ArgoCD Flask Deployment
Terraform-provisioned EKS + ECR with ArgoCD reconciling plain Kubernetes manifests. CI runs real tests and
terraform validate on every push.
02
Bedrock Terraform Infrastructure
Complete Terraform solution for deploying AWS Bedrock AI services with security best practices, multi-environment support (dev/staging/prod), and automated compliance checks.
03
AWS SageMaker MLOps Pipeline
End-to-end SageMaker training pipeline (XGBoost plus a custom PyTorch container), provisioned with Terraform and shell automation from data prep through model registration.
04
DevSecOps Platform — Jenkins + SonarQube
Self-hosted Jenkins, SonarQube, and a stack of shift-left security scanners on a single EC2 host, with the single-host POC tradeoffs documented rather than hidden.
05
Kubernetes Prometheus Grafana Monitoring
Enterprise monitoring stack with Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager, and Node Exporter. One-command deployment, RBAC security, pre-built dashboards, and multi-channel alerting (Email, Slack, PagerDuty).
06
AWS Cost Optimization CLI
A Python CLI, not a Terraform demo: scans an AWS account for waste and prices findings against the live AWS Price List API, exporting a report. 54 tests, all run in CI. Now the engine behind a paid audit service — the repo below covers architecture, IAM policy, and a sample finding.
live_apps
01
NiveshKaro
21 free India investment calculators — SIP, PPF, NPS, EMI, capital gains, and more — every one shows the year-by-year math, not just a final number.
02
India Tax Calculator
Eight income-tax calculators for FY 2025-26 — old vs. new regime comparison, raises, bonuses, RSUs, and Section 44ADA freelance tax.
03
Irish Tax Calculator
PAYE, USC, and PRSI take-home pay calculator for Ireland, built the same trip I moved to Dublin.
04
Subnet Calculator
IPv4 CIDR subnetting with a live tree view — divide a block, undo it with per-row merge, and see the whole hierarchy at a glance.
05
Notesmith
A fast, distraction-free notes app — no account, no sync service, just local storage and a place to write things down.
06
CheckMyURL
A quick way to inspect a URL — headers, redirects, and what it actually resolves to before you click it.
07
Invoice Generator
Free Ireland & India invoice generator — every field is directly editable on the invoice itself, with live totals, recurring billing, and PDF/CSV export. No signup, nothing leaves your browser.
mac_apps
zero network
01
PasteGuard
Intercepts ⌘V into Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor and blocks credentials or PII before they leave your Mac — an active CGEventTap, not a passive scanner. Verifiably zero network calls: no CFNetwork or Network.framework symbol in the binary.
02
MacTools
One menu bar app combining live CPU/MEM monitoring, clipboard history with a global paste picker, a calculator/calendar widget, and a scratch notepad. Supersedes three standalone predecessors.
03
DiskSweeper
Native disk-cleanup app — scans caches and junk with sizes shown before anything moves. Everything goes through Trash first, nothing is auto-deleted.
04
DupeFinder
Finds duplicate files by content hash, not filename — same Trash-first safety model as DiskSweeper.
05
SnapText
Screenshot-to-text menu bar app — on-device OCR via Apple's Vision framework, capture a region and the text is already on your clipboard.
06
Toolbox
Native PDF & image toolkit — compress, merge, and convert, all offline except the one tool that isn't.
07
Claude Usage Menubar
Shows your real Claude.ai session and weekly usage limits in the menu bar by driving an invisible, logged-in WKWebView — no public API exists for this.
Contact
get_in_touch
Currently Available For
- Contract / Consulting Projects
- Part-time Engagements
- B2B DevOps Partnerships
- Full-time Opportunities
Based in Dublin, Ireland (GMT timezone) · AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional · Response within 24 hours · Free 30-min initial consultation