Curriculum Vitae

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Narendra Pandrinki

DevOps & Platform Engineer

India · Working with teams in India, UK, US, Singapore, Dubai

Available — booking Q3 2026

Summary

Independent DevOps and platform engineer with five years building and operating production cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Embed with engineering teams to design Kubernetes platforms, build CI/CD that ships quietly, drive FinOps without slowing delivery, and stand up SRE practice that survives an on-call rotation. Comfortable as the senior voice in the room and as the engineer writing the Terraform — usually both in the same week.

Skills

Cloud Platforms

AWS · GCP · Azure · Multi-cloud architecture

Container Orchestration

Kubernetes · Amazon EKS · Google GKE · Azure AKS · Helm · ArgoCD

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform · OpenTofu · Pulumi · Crossplane

CI/CD

GitHub Actions · GitLab CI · Buildkite · Argo Rollouts

Observability

Prometheus / Grafana · Datadog · OpenTelemetry · Honeycomb · Loki

Databases

PostgreSQL · MySQL · Redis · Kafka · MongoDB

Languages

Python · Go · TypeScript · Bash · Rust

Security

HashiCorp Vault · Trivy · Cosign · OPA / Gatekeeper · SLSA

Networking

VPC / Subnets · Cilium · Service Mesh / Istio · DNS

Data & Streams

Kafka · Kinesis · dbt · Airflow

Selected work

Rebuilding the platform under a payments company without slowing the roadmap

Fintech · 14 weeks

Cut deploy time from 38 minutes to under 9, reduced cluster spend by 31%, and got the team out of a quarterly upgrade panic.

Mainline build time: 38m → 9m

Standing up a platform team where there wasn't one

B2B SaaS · 10 weeks

Delivered a working internal developer platform, paved-path service template, and hired the two engineers who own it now.

Time to provision a new service: 3 days → 22 minutes

HIPAA-aligned cloud foundation for a clinical data startup

Healthtech · 8 weeks

Cleared HIPAA technical safeguards review with their first enterprise customer's security team — on the first pass.

Security review cycles: 1 (first pass)

Getting an e-commerce platform through Black Friday without a war room

E-commerce · 6 weeks (peak readiness) + ongoing retainer

Handled 7.2x the previous year's peak with a single sub-five-minute degradation, no all-hands incident, and a smaller bill than the prior year.

Peak RPS handled: 7.2x YoY

Bringing an AI infra bill back under control without slowing training

AI/ML Infrastructure · 12 weeks

Cut monthly GPU spend by 44% while improving job throughput and shortening time-to-first-token on inference.

Monthly GPU spend: -44%

Real multi-region failover for a two-sided marketplace

Marketplaces · 16 weeks

Delivered a tested cross-region failover with documented RTO of 12 minutes and RPO under 30 seconds — and proved it in a live game day.

Tested RTO: 12 minutes

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional2024
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer — Professional2023
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)2023
  • Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)2024
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate2023
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert2024
  • Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer2023
  • HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate2024

Education

  • MSc Data Science — University of Hertfordshire2020 – 2022
  • BTech, Computer Science — ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education, Hyderabad2015 – 2019

Languages

English (fluent) · Hindi (native) · Telugu (native)