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Neel Kakadia

DevOps Engineer

📍 Toronto, Ontario

AWS Solutions Architect & HashiCorp Terraform certified engineer with 2+ years architecting cloud infrastructure and automating CI/CD pipelines. Specializing in Kubernetes, Terraform, and DevSecOps practices.

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2+

Years Experience

65%

Deployment Time Reduced

30%

Cloud Cost Savings

120+

Pods Managed (EKS)

# expertise

Tech Stack

Tools and technologies I use to build, automate, and scale infrastructure.

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS EC2AWS VPCAWS IAMAWS S3AWS RDSEKSLambdaEventBridgeCloudWatchCost Explorer

IaC & Configuration

TerraformAnsibleAWS ConfigRemote State (S3)DynamoDB Locking

Containers & Orchestration

DockerKubernetesEKSArgo CDHelmBlue-Green DeployMulti-AZ Clusters

CI/CD & DevSecOps

GitHub ActionsGitLab CIJenkinsGitOpsTrivyOWASP Dependency CheckSonarQubeMaven

Observability

PrometheusGrafanaCloudWatchServiceNow

Languages & Scripting

PythonBashYAMLHCLLinux (Ubuntu)Amazon Linux

# work history

Experience

Technical Support Representative

Rogers Communications · Toronto, Canada

Full-timeOct 2024 – Present

70%+

First-Contact Resolution

95%+

Customer Satisfaction

30%

Repeat Incident Reduction

  • Diagnosed and resolved high-volume network and connectivity issues using TCP/IP fundamentals, signal analysis, and log review.
  • Troubleshot LAN/WAN, Wi-Fi, and device configuration issues including routing, firmware, bandwidth, and 2.4/5 GHz optimization.
  • Documented incidents, root causes, and resolutions in ServiceNow, enabling effective Tier-2/Tier-3 escalation and faster recovery times.

Cloud Engineer

Research Tech Solutions · Chatham, ON

Co-OpMay 2024 – Sep 2024

25–30%

AWS Cost Reduction

$2,000+

Monthly Cost Eliminated

~25%

Cost Predictability Gain

  • Reduced AWS costs by 25–30% by automating non-production lifecycle management and rightsizing across 80+ EC2 and ~15 RDS instances using Lambda, EventBridge, and Python.
  • Audited and eliminated ~$2,000 in monthly recurring AWS costs by identifying orphaned EBS volumes (~1.8 TB), 12 unattached Elastic IPs, and obsolete snapshots.
  • Standardized infrastructure via Terraform modules and AWS Config, enforcing cost-center tagging across 4 development teams.
  • Implemented S3 Intelligent-Tiering and lifecycle policies, moving ~1 TB to Glacier and rightsizing 6 EC2 instances (t3.xlarge → t3.large).

DevOps Engineer

Zymr Inc · Ahmedabad, India

Full-timeSep 2021 – Mar 2023

83%

Release Cycle Reduction

42%

Build Time Reduction

50%

Failed Deployments Reduced

  • Architected AWS-based CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions across 8 microservices with Argo CD GitOps, reducing release cycles from ~2 hours to ~20 minutes.
  • Automated Terraform provisioning for 60+ EC2 instances across 4 VPCs with S3 remote state and managed 40+ Linux servers with Ansible.
  • Optimized Dockerfiles through layer reduction and caching, cutting CI build times from ~12 min to ~7 min and reducing Docker image sizes by 40%.
  • Integrated Trivy, OWASP scans, and SonarQube into pipelines, blocking 15–20 vulnerable builds/month and maintaining zero critical production CVEs.
  • Managed Kubernetes/EKS deployments across 2 multi-AZ clusters (~120 pods) using blue-green deployments with Prometheus-tracked automatic rollback.

# pipeline

DevOps Workflow

Hover a card to see the tools. Scroll to rotate through the pipeline.

  • 01
    GitHub
    Argo CD
    GitOps

    Plan & Code

  • 02
    Docker
    GH Actions
    Maven

    Build

  • 03
    Trivy
    OWASP
    SonarQube

    Secure

  • 04
    Kubernetes
    EKS
    Terraform

    Deploy

  • 05
    Prometheus
    Grafana
    CloudWatch

    Monitor

# background

Education & Certifications

Education

May 2023 – Aug 2024

Masters of Applied Computing

University of Windsor

Windsor, Canada

Aug 2018 – Jun 2022

Bachelors of Information Technology Engineering

Gujarat Technological University

India

Certifications

Certified

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Amazon Web Services

May 2024

Certified

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

Nov 2021

Certified

HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate

HashiCorp

Feb 2025

# get in touch

Let's Connect

Open to DevOps, Cloud Engineering, and SRE roles. Always happy to talk infrastructure, automation, or collaboration.

Email

neelkakadia2001@gmail.com

Phone

(647) 836-2941

Location

Toronto, Ontario

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/neelkakadia

GitHub

github.com/neelkakadia

Medium

medium.com/@neelkakadia

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