Headline

Site Reliability Engineer | Designing Scalable, Fault-Tolerant and Cost Effective Cloud Infrastructure | AWS | Automation | Reliability | Creating Tools to Simplify Cloud Deployments

About

I’m a Cloud Infrastructure Lead who loves helping startups bring their ideas to life and scale them in the cloud. Over the last few years, I’ve worked with 20+ early-stage companies, building everything from AI/ML platforms and APIs to full-stack applications. Most of my work revolves around AWS, where I design infrastructure that is not just scalable and secure, but also cost-efficient. I enjoy working at the intersection of technology and business impact. For some startups, that has meant automating deployments with Terraform and GitHub Actions so their teams can move faster. For others, it’s been about setting up monitoring with CloudWatch, Grafana, and Prometheus to keep platforms reliable. I’ve also spent time optimizing cloud spend — in some cases cutting costs by nearly 50% — so founders can focus their budgets on growth instead of unnecessary infra bills. Along the way, I’ve had the chance to mentor interns, guide teams through deployments, and work directly with founders to shape technical strategy around what customers and the industry demand. Whether it’s deploying AI inference platforms, supporting thousands of users, or handling incident response to bring downtime close to zero, I thrive on solving hard problems and making systems work smoothly. At the end of the day, I’m driven by curiosity and a love for building interesting tech with others. I’m always open to new opportunities — whether it’s full-time roles, freelance projects, or simply connecting with people who share the same excitement for technology and innovation. Let’s build something impactful together.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

cursor

github copilot

openclaw

Work experience

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud/DevOps) at PESU Venture Labs, Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos, - Designed and handled secure AWS setups for 20+ startups, supporting AI/ML products, APIs, microservices, and full-stack apps, with focus on scaling, high availability, and cost control. - Automated GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines and automated python scripts with security scans and compliance checks, cutting infra setup time by 70% and reducing deployment issues by 40%. - Rolled out containerised applications using Docker and tuned Kafka, Elasticsearch, and AI inference workloads on EC2/ECS for low-latency, production-critical use cases. - Improved overall security by tightening IAM, applying least-privilege access, setting up VPN-based secure entry, enabling encryption, and following GDPR/ISO guidelines. - Led incident response and performance optimisation to bring downtime down from 30% to under 5%, - Worked directly with founders to reduce their AWS bills by up to 50% - Helped Interns prepare themself into production-ready cloud engineers. - Worked closely with product and engineering teams to build secure-by-default architectures, helping teams launch faster.

Technical Engineer at Intelihire, Jan 2024 - Mar 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, - Connecting colleges & their hiring partners with college innovationists and students. Simplified campus hiring with a robust SaaS application. - Led infrastructure architecture and production operations for a SaaS hiring platform supporting multi-tenant workloads. - Designed and operated cloud infrastructure with emphasis on reliability, performance tuning, and operational monitoring.

Cyber Security Engineer at Abhaya Secure, Jun 2023 - Dec 2023 · 7 mos, As a Cyber Security Engineer at Abhaya, I worked hands-on with a website security platform and penetration testing tool. I contributed to expanding the application’s vulnerability scanning capabilities, implemented new detection modules, and performed extensive security testing to strengthen overall protection against web-based threats, deepening my practical understanding of website security and secure application development.

Product Developer at Abhaya Secure, Dec 2022 - May 2023 · 6 mos

Branding Manager at Weezy Streetwear, Sep 2021 - Oct 2021 · 2 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Project Intern at The Akshaya Patra Foundation, Jun 2019 - Jun 2019 · 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Worked on the "Paper Recycling Project", helping children obtain notebooks to study with.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, PES University

Pre University, science, Miranda Composite PU College

Public links

github: https://github.com/shiva2703

medium: https://medium.com/@shivaedu33