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Shiva Narayan PS

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DevOps & Platform Engineer with 3+ years of experience designing and operating production Kubernetes infrastructure, multi-environment CI/CD pipelines, and MLOps workflows at Ushur. Recognized with the Values Champion – Pursuit of Excellence award.

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About Me

Platform reliability, automation, and scalable cloud-native systems

DevOps & MLOps Engineer with 3+ years of experience designing and operating production Kubernetes infrastructure, multi-environment CI/CD pipelines, and MLOps workflows at Ushur. Deep expertise in GitOps (ArgoCD, Helm), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Packer), and AWS platform engineering (EKS, ECR, IAM, VPC).

I built CI/CD pipelines for AI/ML workloads including RAG, Transformer models, and production AI agents. Maintained 99.99% uptime across 50+ services, resolved 50+ critical infrastructure incidents, and improved cloud security posture from 69% to 82%.

Core Areas

Kubernetes & EKS
CI/CD Automation
GitOps (ArgoCD)
Infrastructure as Code
MLOps & AI Pipelines
Security & Compliance

Education

B.Tech — Computer & Communication Engineering

Manipal University Jaipur  ·  2020–2024  ·  CGPA 8.49

IBM Data Science Specialization

IBM / Coursera

Microsoft Fundamentals Certification

Microsoft

Cisco Network Specialization

Cisco

Work Experience

Professional journey at Ushur

Software Engineer (DevOps & Platform)

Ushur, Bengaluru June 2024 – Present
Current
GitOps & Kubernetes Platform
  • Owned ZenithAgenticGitOpsCD, the central ArgoCD platform managing 50+ services across dev/qa/prod using App-of-Apps pattern and ApplicationSets with exponential backoff retry
  • Managed 50+ Helm charts across ai-labs, analytics, o11y, standard-charts, zenith with strict chart/values separation
  • Maintained multi-region EKS clusters (us-west-2, eu-west-2) with Karpenter autoscaling, AWS ALB controller, EBS CSI driver, and OIDC providers
CI/CD Pipeline Engineering
  • Designed 4 GitHub Actions orchestrators (A/B2/P1/P2) for 7 hybrid monorepos — enforcing nerdctl-only builds, EKS self-hosted runners, and zero-rebuild promotions via ECR re-tagging
  • Maintained UshurCI Jenkins shared library with 173 reusable Groovy steps and 100+ pipeline definitions covering multi-account builds, blue-green upgrades, and Vault unseal automation
Infrastructure as Code
  • Sole maintainer of UshurIACToolKit — 100+ Terraform stacks across 3 AWS accounts, 7 team namespaces, and 9+ regions with modular EKS/VPC/RDS/Redis/S3/DynamoDB design
  • Built UshurBaseAMI Packer pipeline producing CIS-hardened, FIPS-enabled Amazon Linux 2023 AMIs with automated OS hardening, Docker, SSM agent, and THP disabling
MLOps & AI/ML Pipelines
  • Built end-to-end CI/CD for RAG, CovAI, Transformer models, and AI agent services — ensuring reproducible deployments from Dev ECR through Prod
  • Deployed Weaviate vector DB on EKS; managed Presidio PII detection (GLiNER2 ML + regex) and gVisor-isolated sandbox pods for AI agent execution
Observability & Security
  • Deployed full observability stack: OpenTelemetry collector, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Victoria Metrics across 50+ services
  • Implemented UshurZenithIAMPolicies GitOps platform for AWS IAM Identity Center lifecycle management with wildcard-action blocking and CODEOWNERS approval gating
  • Resolved 50+ critical infrastructure failures, contributing to 99.99% uptime across high-availability production services
Values Champion – Pursuit of Excellence (March 2025) Security posture 69% → 82% 99.99% uptime maintained 50+ services under GitOps

DevOps Intern

Ushur, Bengaluru June 2023 – May 2024
  • Deployed HashiCorp Vault on AWS for centralized secret management across environments
  • Provisioned 10+ compute engines via Jenkins + Ansible automation, reducing setup time and manual errors
  • Remediated AWS Security Hub vulnerabilities, improving cloud security posture from 69% to 82%
  • Built SumoLogic live monitoring dashboard integrating multi-service health checks into a single-pane view

Skills & Technologies

Production-grade tools I work with daily

Languages

Python
Groovy
Bash
Go
TypeScript
Java
YAML/HCL

AWS Cloud

EKS
ECR
EC2
S3
IAM
VPC
RDS
DynamoDB
Lambda
ALB / EFS
KMS

CI/CD, GitOps & IaC

Jenkins
GitHub Actions
ArgoCD
Kubernetes
Docker
Terraform
Helm
Ansible
Packer
Karpenter
gVisor
Kustomize

Observability & Security

OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
Grafana
Loki
Tempo
Victoria Metrics
HashiCorp Vault
IAM Identity Center
SumoLogic
Weaviate (VectorDB)

Key Projects

Production systems I own and operate at Ushur

ZenithAgenticGitOpsCD

GitOps

Central ArgoCD GitOps platform managing 50+ services across dev/qa/prod. App-of-Apps pattern with ApplicationSets, exponential backoff (5s→3m) sync retry, and full OTel/Loki/Tempo/Victoria Metrics observability. Multi-region (us-west-2, eu-west-2).

ArgoCD Helm Kubernetes Karpenter Multi-Region

ZenithAgenticConfigs — CI/CD Orchestrators

CI/CD

4 GitHub Actions orchestrators (A/B2/P1/P2) for 7 hybrid monorepos. Enforces nerdctl-only builds on EKS self-hosted runners, change-detection against integration branch, and zero-rebuild dev→qa→prod promotion via ECR re-tagging.

GitHub Actions ECR EKS Runners nerdctl

UshurIACToolKit

Terraform

100+ Terraform stacks across 3 AWS accounts (dev/qa/prod), 7 team namespaces, and 9+ regions. Modular design for EKS, VPC, RDS, Redis, S3, EFS, DynamoDB with S3+DynamoDB remote state locking.

Terraform AWS EKS Multi-Account 9+ Regions

UshurBaseAMI

Packer

Packer CIS-hardened, FIPS-enabled Amazon Linux 2023 AMI factory (base, mongo, mongo8 variants). Jenkins-driven pipeline automating OS hardening, Docker install, SSM agent, and THP disabling.

Packer Jenkins CIS Hardened FIPS AL2023

MLOps Pipelines — RAG / Transformer / AI Agents

MLOps

End-to-end CI/CD for RAG, CovAI, Transformer models, and AI agent services. Weaviate vector DB on EKS, Presidio PII detection (GLiNER2 ML + regex), and gVisor-isolated sandbox pods. Reproducible builds through Dev/QA/Prod ECR.

Weaviate RAG Presidio gVisor Transformers

Career Timeline

My journey of continuous growth
2025 March

Values Champion – Pursuit of Excellence

Recognized by Ushur for driving release process improvements, unblocking Convergence Release Migration, and delivering cluster creation tooling with exceptional ownership in Jenkins parallel pipelines.

Award Leadership Release Engineering
2024 Nov–Dec

GitHub Actions CI/CD & MLOps Platform Launch

Designed 4 GitHub Actions orchestrators for 7 hybrid monorepos; built end-to-end CI/CD for RAG, Transformer, and AI Agent workloads; deployed Weaviate vector DB and Presidio PII detection on EKS.

GitHub Actions MLOps RAG AI Agents
2024 June

Promoted: Software Engineer (DevOps & Platform)

Became sole maintainer of ZenithAgenticGitOpsCD (50+ services), UshurIACToolKit (100+ Terraform stacks), and UshurCI Jenkins shared library (173 Groovy steps, 100+ pipelines) across critical platform infrastructure.

Full-Time Platform Engineering Ushur
2024 Early

Cloud Security Posture: 69% → 82%

Remediated AWS Security Hub findings and deployed HashiCorp Vault on AWS for centralized secret management. Built SumoLogic live monitoring dashboard integrating multi-service health checks into a single-pane view.

AWS Security Hub HashiCorp Vault SumoLogic
2023 June

Joined Ushur as DevOps Intern

Began professional DevOps journey at Ushur, Bengaluru. Provisioned compute engines via Jenkins + Ansible automation, reducing setup time and manual errors across cloud infrastructure.

DevOps Intern Ushur Jenkins Ansible
2023 Award

Student Excellence Award – Early Industry/Startup Category

Honored by Manipal University for outstanding early contributions bridging academic learning with professional impact in the industry and startup space.

Award Manipal University
2020 August

B.Tech — Computer & Communication Engineering

Enrolled at Manipal University Jaipur. Graduated 2024 with CGPA 8.49. Completed IBM Data Science Specialization, Microsoft Fundamentals, and Cisco Network Specialization during this period.

Manipal University Jaipur B.Tech CCE CGPA 8.49

Awards & Certifications

Recognition and professional credentials

Student Excellence Award

Manipal University  ·  2023  ·  Early Industry/Startup Category

Recognized for outstanding contributions in the early industry and startup space.

IBM Data Science Specialization

IBM / Coursera

Microsoft Fundamentals Certification

Microsoft

Cisco Network Specialization

Cisco

Get In Touch

Let's work together

Email

shivanarayanps@gmail.com

Phone

+91 98410 45679

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/shiva-narayan-b439921b7

GitHub

github.com/Shivanarayanps

Location

Bengaluru, India