Arun Shah

👤 About Me

I am a Site Reliability Engineer with 12+ years of experience in production Kubernetes management, cloud-native architecture (AWS-focused), and infrastructure automation. I specialise in building resilient, scalable systems, optimising CI/CD pipelines, and enhancing monitoring & observability. I actively contribute to open-source projects and mentor teams to improve operational excellence and system reliability.

💻 Technical Skills

• 🐳 Kubernetes & Docker – Managing containerized workloads & orchestration
• ☁️ Cloud Platforms – AWS (primary), GCP, Azure
• 🏗️ Infrastructure as Code – Terraform, Ansible
• 🔄 CI/CD Automation – Jenkins, ArgoCD
• 🐍 Programming – Python, 🐹 Go, 🐚 Bash/Shell
• 📊 Observability & Monitoring – Prometheus, Grafana, Observe
• 🐧 Linux/Unix Systems – Performance tuning & troubleshooting
• 🔒 DevSecOps & Cloud Security – Enforcing policies, IAM, vulnerability management
• 🌐 Service Mesh & Networking – Istio, Envoy
• 📉 Cloud Cost Optimization (FinOps) – Analysing costs & improving efficiency
• 🔀 GitOps & Automation – ArgoCD, Flux, Helm

🏢 Professional Experience

• 🏭 Kubernetes Production Management – Scaling, optimising, and securing enterprise-grade clusters.
• ☁️🚀 Cloud-Native Architecture (AWS-focused) – Designing & implementing distributed, scalable infrastructure.
• 🏗️📜 Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – Automating provisioning with Terraform & Ansible.
• 🔄⚡ CI/CD Pipeline Optimisation – Enhancing build/test/release cycles for efficiency & reliability.
• 👁️📊 Monitoring & Observability – Improving system health insights with Prometheus, Grafana, and Observe.
• 🚨📝 Incident Response & Post-Mortem Analysis – Leading resolution efforts, reducing MTTR and improving SLOs.