Rishikesh Gautam

• Run a mix of AWS, DigitalOcean, and on-prem infrastructure, provisioned and kept in sync with Terraform and Ansible.
• Worked on SOC 2 compliance and strengthened security practices, including Wazuh for SIEM and threat detection.
• Simplified and automated deployments with GitHub Actions and Drone pipelines that roll out services without downtime.
• Set up monitoring and tracing with Prometheus, Grafana, Beyla, and Alloy, which helped diagnose application issues and made services more resource-efficient.

Terraform, Ansible, Docker, SOC 2, Wazuh, AWS, DigitalOcean, on-prem, Prometheus, Grafana, Beyla, Alloy, GitHub Actions, Drone

• The only infrastructure engineer at a US startup.
• Wrote the Terraform modules behind ECS, VPC, RDS, ALB, and S3 across dev, staging, and production.
• Built a GitHub Actions and ECR pipeline that removed the manual steps from releases.
• Set up CloudWatch dashboards and alarms.

AWS ECS, Terraform, Docker, GitHub Actions, CloudWatch, RDS, Route 53, ECR

4-year programme in Electronics, Communication and Information Engineering.