Kinjal Thakkar

Joined as a DevSecOps Engineer, focused on security, automation, and cloud infrastructure. Promoted to Senior DevSecOps Engineer after completing one year.

• • Managed end-to-end DevOps, covering infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD, containerization, security, monitoring, support, and cost optimization
• • Worked on 10+ projects, ensuring scalable and efficient infrastructure
• • Deployed and managed MEAN/MERN stack applications across various environments
• • Implemented monorepo CI/CD pipelines using Nx for efficient code management
• • Explored and integrated DevOps security tools like Trivy, GlitchTip, and SonarQube
• • Configured and optimized hosting platforms, including Vercel, AWS Amplify, S3, and CloudFront
• • Managed high-traffic systems, handling massive incoming traffic loads
• • Assisted in load testing infrastructure to auto-scale and sustain ~50K users per minute
• • Optimized costs through strategic infrastructure planning and resource management
• • Conducted multiple POCs to enhance workflows and drive technology adoption

Started as a fresher, gained hands-on experience in DevOps, automation, and cloud infrastructure, and was promoted to a Senior position within 2.5 years.

• • Worked on 3 projects, each introducing new tools and learnings
• • Project 1: Extensive Terraform with GitLab CI/CD, provisioning EC2 with userdata scripts for Postgres, SQL, Hadoop, etc., and React frontend hosting
• • Project 2: Focused on monitoring—built Grafana dashboards, wrote PromQL queries, and explored Splunk & Datadog
• • Project 3: Automated infrastructure deployment with Terraform & AWS CodeBuild, developed Bash scripts and Lambda functions