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Akhil Pagilla

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  • ReliaQuest
    DevOps Engineer
    ReliaQuest
    Jan 2026 - Current (10 months)
    • Configured Azure DevOps pipelines supporting security analytics microservices on AKS clusters, streamlining deployment approvals and reducing failed production releases by 32% across environments.
    • Automated infrastructure provisioning through Terraform blueprints and Azure Virtual Networks, enabling isolated tenant environments for distributed detection workloads supporting enterprise cybersecurity operations.
    • Integrated HashiCorp Vault with Kubernetes authentication workflows, securing runtime credentials for containerized security applications while simplifying secrets rotation procedures across namespaces.
    • Tuned Prometheus alert routing and Grafana dashboards for AKS workloads, accelerating incident visibility and
  • UST
    DevOps Engineer
    UST
    Oct 2022 - Jul 2024 (1 year 10 months)
    • Deployed containerized banking applications onto Amazon EKS using Helm packaging strategies, improving release consistency across development, staging, and production transaction processing environments.
    • Established Jenkins-driven CI workflows integrating Maven artifact validation and Nexus repositories, shortening application delivery cycles by 41% for customer onboarding service deployments.
    • Monitored Kubernetes cluster utilization through CloudWatch metrics and Cluster Autoscaler policies, improving compute allocation efficiency while reducing unnecessary EC2 provisioning across workloads.
    • Scripted Linux operational tasks with Bash automation for log archival, certificate renewals, and backup scheduling, decreasing
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  • University of South Florida
    Master's in Computer Science
    University of South Florida
    Aug 2024 - May 2026 (1 year 10 months)
  • Griet
    Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering
    Griet
    Dec 2020 - Jun 2024 (3 years 7 months)
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  • A
    Production GitOps EKS Platform
    AWS, Terraform, ArgoCD, Karpenter, Prometheus, Grafana
    May 2026 - Jun 2026 (2 months)
    • Built GitOps deployment platform on EKS using Terraform and ArgoCD, standardizing releases, reducing manual deployment effort, and improving rollback reliability through Git-driven workflows.
    • Implemented Karpenter to reduce node provisioning time from minutes to under a minute while improving cluster scaling efficiency and lowering EC2 costs by 40%.
    • Configured blue/green and canary deployment strategies with ArgoCD and IRSA, enabling controlled releases, zero-downtime deployments, and secure workload access across namespaces.
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    Production-Ready Multi-Tenant EKS Framework
    AWS, Terraform, Helm, Cluster Autoscaler, Fluent Bit, CloudWatch
    May 2026 - Jun 2026 (2 months)
    • Built reusable multi-tenant EKS framework with Terraform across multiple AWS accounts, reducing infrastructure duplication by 60% and improving environment consistency.
    • Automated Kubernetes add-on provisioning with Terraform and Helm, reducing cluster bootstrap time by 70% while standardizing ingress, autoscaling, monitoring, and logging components.
    • Implemented centralized logging pipelines with Fluent Bit, CloudWatch, and Elasticsearch/Kibana, improving observability, audit readiness, and cross-cluster troubleshooting across environments.