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Cloud & DevOps Engineer @ Social Braynz | Shipped SnapBase a production database-backup SaaS — solo | AWS · EKS · Terraform · GitOps | Cut AWS spend 55% @ previous role

About

The first production deploy I owned broke at 2 AM. Since then, my entire career has been about one question: how do you build infrastructure that doesn't wake engineers up? I'm Suguresh — Cloud & DevOps Engineer at Social Braynz. Most recently at Seabed2Crest, I was the sole cloud engineer running production infra for a live SaaS: AWS, EKS, Terraform, the whole stack. A few things I'm proud of from that year: → Cut deployment time from 30 minutes to 5 minutes by rebuilding the release pipeline on GitHub Actions + Jenkins — zero manual steps, zero release errors since → Reduced AWS spend from ~₹1,00,000/month to ~₹45,000/month — a 55% cut — through EKS node right-sizing, unused-storage cleanup, and S3 VPC endpoints to kill egress costs → Ran a 3-node EKS cluster serving 10+ microservices with zero-downtime rolling updates and automated rollback → Dropped incident detection time by ~40% with a centralized Prometheus + Grafana + CloudWatch stack → Codified the entire AWS footprint in Terraform — every VPC, EKS cluster, RDS instance, IAM policy, peer-reviewed and version-controlled The thing I'm proudest of, though, is SnapBase (https://getsnapbase.com) — a production database-backup SaaS I built and shipped solo. Go + Gin backend, Next.js 14 frontend, PostgreSQL, MinIO, multi-cloud storage (S3, R2, B2, Wasabi), OAuth, RBAC, AES-256 encryption, Razorpay billing, self-hosted on Dokploy. End-to-end, nothing borrowed. I also self-host a full observability stack (Prometheus + Grafana + Loki + AlertManager on k3s, GitOps'd with ArgoCD) at grafana.thesugu.com — it's how I learn by running the tools in anger, not just reading about them. My stack: - Cloud: AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB), Azure, GCP - IaC & Containers: Terraform · Docker · Kubernetes (EKS, k3s) · Helm - CI/CD: GitHub Actions · Jenkins · ArgoCD - Observability: Prometheus · Grafana · Loki · AlertManager · CloudWatch - Scripting: Python · Bash · Go (working knowledge) - Networking / Edge: Traefik · Nginx · Cloudflare · SSL/TLS · DNS Always up for conversations with SRE / DevOps / Platform teams building serious infra — especially anyone working on GitOps, self-healing systems, or cost-optimized multi-cloud setups. 📬 sugugalag@gmail.com 🌐 thesugu.com 🔗 github.com/suguslove10 📍 Bengaluru · Open to remote & hybrid Let's build something that doesn't break at 2 AM.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Associate Cloud Engineer at Social Braynz, May 2026 - Present · 5 mos, Bengaluru

Cloud Engineer at Seabed2Crest Technologies Private Limited, May 2025 - Apr 2026 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Cloud & DevOps Engineer — AWS | Kubernetes | Terraform Seabed2Crest Technologies Pvt. Ltd. · Bengaluru, India May 2025 – April 2026 · 1 yr - Sole Cloud & DevOps engineer owning production infrastructure across dev, staging, and live — served customer-facing workloads with zero-downtime releases for 12 months. - Cut deployment time from 30 minutes to 5 minutes (6x faster) by rebuilding the release pipeline on GitHub Actions + Jenkins — eliminated all manual release steps and broke the "it works on my machine" loop. - Drove monthly AWS spend from ~₹1,00,000 to ~₹45,000 — a 55% cut — through EKS node right-sizing, unused-storage cleanup, and S3 VPC endpoints to kill data-transfer costs. - Ran a 3-node EKS cluster hosting 10+ microservices with rolling updates and automated rollback strategies — zero customer-facing downtime across the year. - Reduced incident detection time by ~40% with a centralized Prometheus + Grafana + CloudWatch stack; real-time alerts caught issues before customers reported them. - Codified 100% of the AWS footprint — VPC, EKS, RDS, IAM — in Terraform. Every change peer-reviewed via pull request, every environment reproducible on demand. - Partnered with dev teams to streamline release workflows, measurably reducing rollback frequency and improving deploy confidence.

AWS CLOUD INTERN at F13 Technologies, Oct 2024 - Jan 2025 · 4 mos, AWS Cloud Intern F13 Technologies · New Delhi, India (Remote) Oct 2024 – Jan 2025 · 4 mos - Architected cloud solutions on EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway for internal tooling and client use cases. - Built a Service Recommendation System (SRS) that generated cost-effective AWS implementation plans for client workloads. - Delivered an HRMS solution using Lambda + DynamoDB + Cognito — secure serverless auth, no EC2 footprint. - Created a Cloud Migration Strategy Planner producing data-driven migration roadmaps for enterprise client workloads.

DevOps Engineer at StarAgile, May 2024 - Oct 2024 · 6 mos, Completed StarAgile's DevOps program — built a full CI/CD pipeline for a Spring Boot microservice using Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, and AWS EC2, with Prometheus + Grafana monitoring. Earned DevOps Engineer certification.

Custom ROM Developer at Self-Initiated Project, Feb 2023 - May 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Built and Customized Evolution X ROM for OnePlus 8 Pro: Leveraged the Evolution X manifest to source and integrate the vendor, device-specific, and kernel trees. Enhanced Stability and Performance: Tailored the ROM to ensure stability and customization, optimizing the performance for the OnePlus 8 Pro. Technical Skills Applied: Extensive use of Git for version control, familiarity with the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), and hands-on experience with Linux environments for building and compiling ROMs. Problem Solving and Customization: Solved various device-specific challenges to enhance functionality, rooted devices, and flashed custom ROMs for optimal user experience.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and computer engineering, Reva University

Public links

github: https://github.com/suguslove10

thesugu.com: https://thesugu.com/