“Engineering the sky—from concept to cloud, deployment to delivery.”

Hi, I'm Maria Arpitha — a Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of AWS production experience, 6 cloud certifications and 6 hands-on projects built to production standards.

My background includes provisioning and managing AWS infrastructure using Terraform, building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Jenkins, and designing secure multi-AZ architectures — gained through real production work at an EdTech SaaS company serving clients across the US, UK, and Southeast Asia.

Based in Bristol, CT — open to remote and hybrid roles. Fully authorized to work in the US (H4 EAD, no sponsorship required).

• Cloud Platforms: AWS (Primary) · Azure · GCP
• IaC & Automation: Terraform · Ansible
• CI/CD Pipelines: Jenkins · GitHub Actions
• Containers & Orchestration: Docker · Kubernetes · ECR · EKS
• Security: IAM · Secrets Manager · KMS · Security Groups
• Monitoring & Observability: Amazon CloudWatch
• Version Control Tools: Git · GitHub
• Scripting: Bash
• Operating Systems: Linux · Windows
• AI Tools: GitHub Copilot · Claude Code

• Following relocation to the US, dedicated this period to earning 6 cloud certifications across AWS, GCP, and Azure — and building 6 production-equivalent projects to stay technically current and US market-ready. Fully authorized to work in the US (H4 EAD — no sponsorship required).

1. AWS 3-Tier Production Project — EKS Migration Terraform · Docker · GitHub Actions · Kubernetes · CloudWatch

• Provisioned complete 3-tier AWS architecture with Terraform — VPC, ALB, EKS, RDS MySQL, IAM across us-east-1a and us-east-1b — zero manual steps
• Built end-to-end GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline — terraform plan on PR, apply on merge, Docker build, ECR push, kubectl rollout in one automated workflow
• Containerized Node.js application with Docker and pushed to ECR using IAM role authentication — no stored credentials
• Migrated compute layer from EC2/ASG to EKS — Deployment, Service, HPA (2→6 pods at 70% CPU), Kubernetes Secret for secure DB credential injection
• Implemented full CloudWatch observability — alarms, log streams, SNS alerting, custom metrics (RequestCount, Latency, ErrorCount) via AWS SDK
• Reduced deployment time from 5-10 minutes (ASG refresh) to ~30 seconds (kubectl rollout) with zero downtime

2. End-to-End DevOps Pipeline — Jenkins · Docker · AWS

• Provisioned AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, ALB, RDS) via AWS CLI and containerized a Java application with Docker
• Built Jenkins CI/CD pipeline with GitHub webhook triggers — every commit automatically builds, pushes Docker image to DockerHub, and deploys to EC2 with zero manual steps

3. Secure Static Website — S3 · CloudFront · ACM · Route 53

• Hosted static website on private S3 bucket with CloudFront Origin Access Control (OAC) for secure content delivery
• Configured ACM SSL certificate and Route 53 for custom domain with HTTPS — no direct S3 public access

4. Serverless Credential Rotation — Lambda · Secrets Manager · EventBridge

• Built serverless automation to rotate credentials in Secrets Manager using Lambda triggered by EventBridge on a schedule
• Applied least-privilege IAM policies — zero standing access to secrets

• Provisioned and managed production AWS infrastructure (EC2, ALB, ASG, VPC, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch) using Terraform and AWS CLI.
• Built and maintained Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for automated application deployments — reducing manual release effort significantly.
• Implemented Ansible-based configuration management for automated deployments and system updates across environments.
• Enforced IAM roles, policies, and security groups following least-privilege principles across all production resources.
• Configured CloudWatch metrics, alarms, and log groups to improve infrastructure reliability and operational visibility.
• Created AMIs and golden images to standardize environments and accelerate disaster recovery.

• Trained junior engineers on AWS cloud fundamentals through structured hands-on labs covering EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, and RDS
• Supported development and maintenance of an internal web application, gaining practical exposure to real-world deployment workflows
• Gained foundational exposure to Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, and GitHub — forming the technical base for subsequent production roles.

• Delivered end-to-end customer support for US-based clients through high-volume inbound and outbound calls, resolving service requests with clarity, empathy, and professionalism

Bachelors of Engineering, Information Science & Engineering (ISE) · 2017