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Rahul H Bhatia

SRE | Everything AWS | Golden Jacket Holder | 12x AWS [ AWSTRONAUT] in 44 days | 1x Azure | RHCE | RHCSA | EX 180 | EX 280 Openshift | Credit Card Enthusiast

Chennai

3+ years of work experience

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Aug 20263 mosPresent

Chennai

MelodyArc
Jun 20251 yr 5 mosPresent

Led platform engineering across AWS and GCP for a multi-service production system, standardizing infrastructure patterns and reducing environment setup time by ~60%. Designed reusable Terraform modules for VPC, NAT, DNS, GKE, Cloud Run, and service onboarding, enabling consistent provisioning across environments and reducing new service onboarding time from days to <2 hours. Built an end-to-end MongoDB Atlas platform workflow (provisioning → bootstrap → secret distribution), eliminating manual setup and reducing deployment errors by ~70%. Reduced infrastructure handoff friction by standardizing connection-string generation and secret mapping into GCP Secret Manager, cutting manual intervention time by ~50%. Implemented and tuned Cloud Armor WAF protections (SQLi, XSS, RCE, etc.), reducing false positives by ~40% while maintaining full authentication flow reliability. Designed private-by-default service architecture (internal ingress + VPC routing), improving security posture and reducing external exposure surface by ~80%. Eliminated long-lived credentials in CI/CD using OIDC + Workload Identity, reducing credential management overhead and improving auditability. Standardized GitOps boundaries between Terraform and Flux, reducing configuration drift incidents by ~60%. Improved runtime reliability by implementing session-affinity strategies, reducing user-facing session instability issues by ~30%. Built a local developer platform (Docker Compose + secret sync), reducing onboarding/setup time from ~1 day to <2 hours.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jul 20251 yr 2 mosAug 2026

United States

SME for AWS certifications, help in development of ITEMS and questions , along with initiating peer reviews for exam questions.
MelodyArc
Jun 202511 mosApr 2026

United States

Career Break
Jan 20255 mosMay 2025

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Took up the goal of completing all 12 AWS certifications and getting the AWS Golden Jacket and became one of the youngest people in the world to do it. https://shorturl.at/EeZGF Speed ran through all 12 AWS certifications in the space of 44 days. Scored 850+ across 8 exams of AWS. Tried my hand at freelancing and took up freelancing projects for clients on AWS.
Freelance
Dec 20246 mosMay 2025

Achieved all 12 AWS certifications (Golden Jacket) in 44 days, demonstrating deep multi-domain cloud expertise. Delivered AWS infrastructure solutions focused on automation and cost optimization, achieving ~20–30% cost savings in select workloads.
SBS-Global - Enabling Business Transformation
Oct 20231 yr 6 mosMar 2025

Greater Bengaluru Area

Taking Interviews of Positions ranging from Software Engineers to Director of Engineer for well-esteem organisations like ThoughtWorks, HP, DXC, etc.. Interviews range from back-end Development (Java (Spring), Python(Django), C# (Dot net) ) ,Front-end Development (React, Angular), Business Analyst, Technical Architect, DevOps, Head of IT

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Education

SRM IST Chennai

Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology

SRM IST Chennai

20164 yrs2020
Udacity

Nanodegree, Secure and private Facebook Artificial intelligence scholarship

Udacity

20192019

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Headline

SRE | Everything AWS | Golden Jacket Holder | 12x AWS [ AWSTRONAUT] in 44 days | 1x Azure | RHCE | RHCSA | EX 180 | EX 280 Openshift | Credit Card Enthusiast

About

I am a Site Reliability Engineer. Cosmology, Psychology, Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, Football is what interest me. I love automation and simplifying development workflow and ensure that teams sleep peacefully at night. Skilled in: Kubernetes, Ansible, Docker, Podman, Openshift, Jenkins, Terraform, Cloud Formation, AWS, Android, and Backend Development(Spring Boot and Flask), Front-End(React), Big data(Hadoop, Map Reduce and Hive) and Deep Learning. I like Integrating different Technologies together as soon I have learnt something new I try to integrate with something I have learnt before. I write Technical Blogs here: https://rahulbhatia1998.medium.com/

Location

Chennai

AI stack

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Work experience

Lead Subject Matter Expert - AWS Certifications at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Aug 2026 - Present · 3 mos, Chennai

Platform Engineer at MelodyArc, Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos, Led platform engineering across AWS and GCP for a multi-service production system, standardizing infrastructure patterns and reducing environment setup time by ~60%. Designed reusable Terraform modules for VPC, NAT, DNS, GKE, Cloud Run, and service onboarding, enabling consistent provisioning across environments and reducing new service onboarding time from days to <2 hours. Built an end-to-end MongoDB Atlas platform workflow (provisioning → bootstrap → secret distribution), eliminating manual setup and reducing deployment errors by ~70%. Reduced infrastructure handoff friction by standardizing connection-string generation and secret mapping into GCP Secret Manager, cutting manual intervention time by ~50%. Implemented and tuned Cloud Armor WAF protections (SQLi, XSS, RCE, etc.), reducing false positives by ~40% while maintaining full authentication flow reliability. Designed private-by-default service architecture (internal ingress + VPC routing), improving security posture and reducing external exposure surface by ~80%. Eliminated long-lived credentials in CI/CD using OIDC + Workload Identity, reducing credential management overhead and improving auditability. Standardized GitOps boundaries between Terraform and Flux, reducing configuration drift incidents by ~60%. Improved runtime reliability by implementing session-affinity strategies, reducing user-facing session instability issues by ~30%. Built a local developer platform (Docker Compose + secret sync), reducing onboarding/setup time from ~1 day to <2 hours.

Subject Matter Expert - AWS Certifications at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jul 2025 - Aug 2026 · 1 yr 2 mos, United States, SME for AWS certifications, help in development of ITEMS and questions , along with initiating peer reviews for exam questions.

System Engineer at MelodyArc, Jun 2025 - Apr 2026 · 11 mos, United States

Personal goal pursuit at Career Break, Jan 2025 - May 2025 · 5 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Took up the goal of completing all 12 AWS certifications and getting the AWS Golden Jacket and became one of the youngest people in the world to do it. https://shorturl.at/EeZGF Speed ran through all 12 AWS certifications in the space of 44 days. Scored 850+ across 8 exams of AWS. Tried my hand at freelancing and took up freelancing projects for clients on AWS.

Cloud Engineer at Freelance, Dec 2024 - May 2025 · 6 mos, Achieved all 12 AWS certifications (Golden Jacket) in 44 days, demonstrating deep multi-domain cloud expertise. Delivered AWS infrastructure solutions focused on automation and cost optimization, achieving ~20–30% cost savings in select workloads.

Consultant - Technical Interviewer at SBS-Global - Enabling Business Transformation, Oct 2023 - Mar 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Taking Interviews of Positions ranging from Software Engineers to Director of Engineer for well-esteem organisations like ThoughtWorks, HP, DXC, etc.. Interviews range from back-end Development (Java (Spring), Python(Django), C# (Dot net) ) ,Front-end Development (React, Angular), Business Analyst, Technical Architect, DevOps, Head of IT

Education

Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology, SRM IST Chennai

Nanodegree, Secure and private Facebook Artificial intelligence scholarship, Udacity

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