Cloud Infrastructure · Kubernetes · Platform Engineering · DevSecOps

Designing reliable platforms. Automating the complex. Securing delivery.

I'm Karan Parmar, a Cloud and DevSecOps Engineer with 5.5+ years of experience building, automating, securing, and operating cloud infrastructure and delivery platforms.

My work focuses on cloud engineering, Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, GitOps, DevSecOps, observability, and production reliability. I enjoy transforming repetitive operational tasks into dependable automation, improving software delivery workflows, and making infrastructure easier to manage, secure, and maintain.

I have hands-on experience across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). My engineering approach emphasizes infrastructure as code, secure delivery pipelines, actionable monitoring, systematic troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.

I believe good platform engineering should make the secure and reliable path the easiest path for developers.

• Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
• Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
• Infrastructure-as-Code security scanning
• Container image vulnerability scanning
• IAM, access controls, and secure CI/CD practices

• Prometheus metrics collection and Pushgateway
• Grafana dashboards and infrastructure visibility
• Alertmanager alerting workflows
• Nagios monitoring
• ELK-based logging and troubleshooting
• Production health monitoring and operational diagnostics

Languages and scripting: Python, Bash, PowerShell, Groovy

Systems and tools: Linux, Git, PostgreSQL, Oracle Database

Built dynamic, ephemeral GitHub Actions self-hosted runners using Docker and Python. Runners are provisioned on demand and removed after jobs, reducing dependence on persistent runner capacity.

Designed and managed OCI infrastructure components, including compute, networking, storage, IAM, subnets, routing, and workload security controls. Worked with Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, and Helm-based delivery.

Automated application deployments using Ansible and moved database release activities into version-controlled GitHub Actions workflows. Worked across GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and GitLab CI/CD tooling.

Worked with Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Nagios, and Prometheus Pushgateway to improve infrastructure visibility, alerting, and production troubleshooting.

Automated Oracle E-Business Suite cloning workflows using Python and Bash, reducing execution time from approximately 15 hours to 5.5 hours.

Contributed to PostgreSQL high-availability and disaster-recovery architecture, alongside database operations and release automation.

• Automation first: Reduce repetitive manual tasks and improve operational consistency.
• Infrastructure as code: Make infrastructure changes reviewable, repeatable, and maintainable.
• Security by design: Integrate security checks into the software delivery lifecycle.
• Reliability through observability: Use meaningful metrics, dashboards, and actionable alerts.
• Least privilege: Apply appropriate access controls and minimize credential exposure.
• Continuous improvement: Learn from operational issues and improve processes, tooling, and documentation.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure certifications

• Platform engineering and internal developer platforms
• Kubernetes automation and cloud-native infrastructure
• Advanced Terraform and GitOps workflows
• DevSecOps and software supply-chain security
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and observability
• Developer productivity and self-service automation
• Practical open-source infrastructure tools

I'm interested in connecting with cloud engineers, DevOps professionals, platform engineers, SREs, and open-source contributors who enjoy solving real engineering problems.

• 📍 Location: India
• 📧 Email: karanbparmarp1@gmail.com
• 💼 LinkedIn: karanp-devops
• 🐙 GitHub: @kpstack