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Kevin Alva

Senior Site Reliability Engineer @ Cimpress India | AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Mumbai Metropolitan Region

7+ years of work experience

Cimpress India
Jan 20251 yr 10 mosPresent

Remote

•Implemented use of Amazon Kiro within the development team and helped utilize Kiro Crew to create workflow agents. • AWS Bedrock – Used RAG pipelines connected with managed KB (Confluence, internal Docs) and used Open WebUI and litellm. • Deployed custom model on AWS and trained with AWS Titan models. • Used Kiro crew along with AWS and Datadog MCP and carried out quicker investigations, which reduced investigation time from 15 mins to 5 mins and quicker resolution • Owned end-to-end EKS/ECS/EC2 platform engineering across INT / QA / Release / Prod, supporting 50+ microservices and 800+ Pods and maintaining SLI of 99.9% uptime. • Built and managed Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, developing reusable modules and standardized infrastructure patterns across multiple environments. • Implemented monitoring, observability, alerting, and incident response using Datadog, CloudWatch, and OpenSearch to improve system reliability and reduce operational issues and knowledge sharing with developers. • Led infrastructure modernization and migration initiatives, including Redis/ElastiCache to AWS Valkey, improving scalability, maintainability, and operational efficiency. • Designed secure and highly available architectures using VPC, ALB, CloudFront, WAF, IAM, security groups, and private networking.
ConnectWise
Aug 20231 yr 5 mosDec 2024

Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Developed and managed AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation and AWS CDK, EKS for mission-critical SaaS platforms. • Implemented CI/CD pipelines with GitLab and Jenkins, enhancing software delivery efficiency by 40%. • Championed a DevOps culture by conducting knowledge-sharing sessions for engineering teams.
Crayon
Nov 20211 yr 10 mosAug 2023

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Collaborated with customer technical leads and client executives to ensure successful cloud solution implementations. • Proposed innovative cloud architectures tailored to complex customer requirements, enhancing overall project efficiency. • Managed the deployment of cloud-based solutions, adhering to best practices and implementation standards.
Newfold Digital
Jul 20214 mosOct 2021

India

Newfold Digital
Jun 20192 yrs 2 mosJul 2021

Mumbai Metropolitan Region

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Education

University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology

University of Mumbai

20145 yrs2019

H.S.C, Science

St Mary's Junior College

20122 yrs2014

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer @ Cimpress India | AWS Certified Solutions Architect

About

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Cimpress India, I focus on cloud migration projects, leveraging AWS, Terraform, and Ansible to design and implement highly available infrastructure. By automating CI/CD pipelines with Bitbucket and Atlantis, we have significantly improved deployment times and streamlined operations. Collaboration with development and security teams ensures compliance with industry best practices. With a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from the University of Mumbai, my expertise spans containerization, orchestration, and Git. Certifications, including AWS Certified Solutions Architect, underpin my commitment to professional growth and delivering scalable, reliable cloud solutions. My career goal is to continue driving innovation in cloud infrastructure and automation.

Location

Mumbai Metropolitan Region

AI stack

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mcp

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Braintrust

Work experience

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Cimpress India, Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos, Remote, •Implemented use of Amazon Kiro within the development team and helped utilize Kiro Crew to create workflow agents. • AWS Bedrock – Used RAG pipelines connected with managed KB (Confluence, internal Docs) and used Open WebUI and litellm. • Deployed custom model on AWS and trained with AWS Titan models. • Used Kiro crew along with AWS and Datadog MCP and carried out quicker investigations, which reduced investigation time from 15 mins to 5 mins and quicker resolution • Owned end-to-end EKS/ECS/EC2 platform engineering across INT / QA / Release / Prod, supporting 50+ microservices and 800+ Pods and maintaining SLI of 99.9% uptime. • Built and managed Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, developing reusable modules and standardized infrastructure patterns across multiple environments. • Implemented monitoring, observability, alerting, and incident response using Datadog, CloudWatch, and OpenSearch to improve system reliability and reduce operational issues and knowledge sharing with developers. • Led infrastructure modernization and migration initiatives, including Redis/ElastiCache to AWS Valkey, improving scalability, maintainability, and operational efficiency. • Designed secure and highly available architectures using VPC, ALB, CloudFront, WAF, IAM, security groups, and private networking.

Senior Cloud Engineer 1 ( DevOps) at ConnectWise, Aug 2023 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos, Mumbai Metropolitan Region, • Developed and managed AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation and AWS CDK, EKS for mission-critical SaaS platforms. • Implemented CI/CD pipelines with GitLab and Jenkins, enhancing software delivery efficiency by 40%. • Championed a DevOps culture by conducting knowledge-sharing sessions for engineering teams.

Associate Cloud Solution Engineer at Crayon, Nov 2021 - Aug 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, • Collaborated with customer technical leads and client executives to ensure successful cloud solution implementations. • Proposed innovative cloud architectures tailored to complex customer requirements, enhancing overall project efficiency. • Managed the deployment of cloud-based solutions, adhering to best practices and implementation standards.

Senior Web solution specialist at Newfold Digital, Jul 2021 - Oct 2021 · 4 mos, India

Web solution specialist at Newfold Digital, Jun 2019 - Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology, University of Mumbai

H.S.C, Science, St Mary's Junior College