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Hi there, I'm Dinesh Udayakumar πŸ‘‹

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πŸ“ Toronto, ON | πŸ“§ dinesh.uday@outlook.com


πŸš€ About Me

I'm a passionate DevOps Engineer with expertise in cloud platforms, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD. I specialize in optimizing deployments, automating infrastructure, and improving system reliability.


πŸ›  Skills

  • Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation), GCP (GCE, GKE, GCS, IAM), Azure
  • Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible
  • CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Argo CD
  • Programming: Python, Bash, Shell Scripting
  • Operating Systems: Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL)
  • Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

πŸ’Ό Experience

Cloud Engineer | Cognizant

Feb 2026 – Present
Client: Google Cloud Marketplace (Onboarding & Integration)

  • Marketplace Engineering: Lead technical onboarding for SaaS and VM products on Google Cloud Marketplace, managing the end-to-end discovery, procurement, and deployment lifecycle for third-party partners.

  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Design and debug complex Terraform and Deployment Manager templates to automate the distribution of licensed images and VM deployment packages.

  • SaaS & Billing Integration: Architect technical integrations using GCP Pub/Sub, Service Accounts, and Service Control APIs to enable automated billing and usage reporting for enterprise partners.

  • Security & Compliance: Perform vulnerability scanning (CVE fixes) and troubleshoot image/disk issues to ensure all Marketplace products meet Google’s production security standards.

  • Cloud Operations: Resolve high-priority issues related to license image attachments, backup mismatches, and Private/Public pricing configurations for global sellers.

DevOps Engineer | Elestio

May 2025 – Aug 2025

  • Troubleshoot and maintain high availability for open-source applications on customer-managed instances.
  • Automate routine tasks using Linux and Bash scripting.
  • Support custom Docker Compose setups and environment variable configurations.

DevOps Engineer Intern | Nokia

Sept 2023 – Dec 2023

  • Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, reducing setup times by 40%.
  • Built Docker images and deployed Kubernetes clusters for scalable operations.
  • Developed GitHub Actions pipelines for zero-downtime deployments.

DevOps Engineer | TransUnion

Aug 2019 – Nov 2021

  • Designed and maintained AWS cloud environments.
  • Automated builds and deployments using Jenkins and GitLab CI.
  • Implemented Ansible playbooks for server configuration.
  • Set up Prometheus/Grafana monitoring and ELK Stack logging for improved observability.

πŸŽ“ Education

Master of Engineering (M.Eng) in Computer Engineering
University of Ottawa (2022 – 2024) | GPA: 3.9/4.0

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Computer Science & Engineering
SRM Institute of Science and Technology (2015 – 2019)


πŸ“œ Certifications

  • GCP Associate Cloud Engineer
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • SAFe 4 Practitioner

Thanks for visiting my profile! Feel free to reach out or check out my projects below.
πŸ”— My GitHub Repositories


Made with ❀️ by Dinesh Udayakumar

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  1. FanPulse FanPulse Public

    Real-time Game Score Service

    Python 1

  2. secrets-rotation-service secrets-rotation-service Public

    A secure, API-driven microservice for managing and rotating secrets in AWS using FastAPI, Terraform, and AWS Secrets Manager. This project was built to demonstrate best practices in cloud security,…

    Python

  3. Cloud-Performance-Test Cloud-Performance-Test Public

    Load and performance testing scripts for AWS/GCP, with Docker and Kubernetes deployment files for a Mattermost preview app. Includes stress, spike, smoke, and load testing using K6.

    JavaScript

  4. FoodCalci-WebApp-for-calorie-calculation-using-AWS-rekognition FoodCalci-WebApp-for-calorie-calculation-using-AWS-rekognition Public

    AI-powered web app to detect foods from images using AWS Rekognition and estimate calories via the USDA API. Built with HTML, CSS, and JS β€” fully client-side with no backend.

    HTML 1

  5. ultimate-devops-project-demo ultimate-devops-project-demo Public

    Forked from iam-veeramalla/ultimate-devops-project-demo

    This repository contains the OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop, a microservice-based distributed system intended to illustrate the implementation of OpenTelemetry in a near real-world environment.

    TypeScript

  6. GitHub-Actions-Zero-to-Hero GitHub-Actions-Zero-to-Hero Public

    Forked from iam-veeramalla/GitHub-Actions-Zero-to-Hero

    Repository to kick start your journey with GitHub Actions

    Python