Ashok Kunchala

01. About Me

DevOps Engineer with 3+ years of experience designing and managing AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration across Retail/E-commerce environments.

I specialize in infrastructure as code, automation, and building reliable, scalable systems. From provisioning multi-environment Terraform stacks to orchestrating 12+ microservices on ECS/EKS, I focus on reducing toil and improving operational excellence.

Currently focused on cloud cost optimization, security hardening, and building developer-friendly platform tooling.

ashok@devops ~

$ cat about_me.json

{
  "name": "Ashok Kunchala",
  "role": "AWS DevOps Engineer",
  "location": "Hyderabad, India",
  "experience": "3+ years",
  "focus": [
    "Cloud Infrastructure",
    "CI/CD Pipelines",
    "Container Orchestration",
    "Cost Optimization"
  ],
  "certifications": [
    "AWS Cloud Practitioner",
    "AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals"
  ]
}

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3+ Years Experience

12 Microservices Managed

50+ Pipelines Built

99.9% Uptime Achieved

25% Cost Reduction

02. Technical Skills

Cloud & AWS Services

EC2ECSEKSECRLambda VPCIAMS3Route53CloudWatch ALBRDSEFSCloudFrontAuto Scaling EC2 FleetSpot InstancesCloudTrailWAFNACLs

CI/CD & DevOps

JenkinsGitHub ActionsArgo CDGitOpsAnsible

Infrastructure as Code

TerraformCloudFormationPacker

Containerization & Orchestration

DockerKubernetesAmazon ECSAmazon EKSHelm

Security & Compliance

IAM PoliciesSecurity GroupsTrivySnykEncryptionRBAC

Monitoring & Observability

CloudWatchGrafanaPrometheusElasticsearchKibanaOpsGenie

Cost Optimization

Spot InstancesEC2 FleetSavings PlansRight-sizingAuto Scaling

Automation & Scripting

Python/Boto3BashGitLinux (RHEL/Ubuntu)

03. Experience

DevOps Engineer

Loyalty Methods Pvt. Ltd — RCX Tech

Feb 2024 – Mar 2026 Hyderabad

Infrastructure as Code

Provisioned scalable AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, ECS, RDS, IAM, S3) using Terraform across dev, staging, and production environments.

Container Orchestration

Deployed 12 microservices on Amazon ECS (EC2 + Fargate), achieving 99.9% uptime for production services.

CI/CD Pipelines

Built Jenkins pipelines with GitHub, Docker, and ECR — reducing manual release effort by 40% and enabling 15+ weekly deployments.

Security Scanning

Established Trivy/Snyk container image scanning pipeline integrated with Jenkins and ECR, reducing vulnerabilities by 60%.

Cost Optimization

Implemented Spot Instances, EC2 Fleet, and right-sizing strategies, reducing overall AWS spend by 25%.

Observability

Configured CloudWatch, Grafana, and Kibana dashboards with SLA/SLO-based alerting, improving MTTR by 30%.

DevOps Engineer

Relevance Lab Pvt. Ltd — Carene Tech

Oct 2022 – Oct 2023 Bangalore

EKS & Kubernetes

Managed containerized workloads on Amazon EKS across 8 namespaces — Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Ingress, and Helm charts.

Deployment Automation

Developed Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and Ansible playbooks, reducing deployment cycle time by 35%.

Golden AMIs

Created optimized Golden AMIs for EKS worker nodes using Packer, improving node provisioning speed and consistency.

Monitoring Stack

Established CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, and OpsGenie monitoring across 4 EKS clusters, reducing incident detection time by 40%.

GitOps

Supported Argo CD-based GitOps deployments, validating manifests and monitoring rollout health across environments.

04. Key Projects

Multi-Environment AWS Infrastructure

Terraform

VPC + Subnets

ECS / EKS

ALB + RDS

Designed multi-AZ VPC architecture with public/private subnets, NAT Gateways, and VPC peering
Managed 3 environments (dev/staging/prod) with Terraform workspaces and remote state on S3
Implemented IAM roles, Security Groups, and NACLs following least-privilege principles

TerraformVPCEC2ECSRDSIAMS3

CI/CD Pipeline Platform

GitHub

Jenkins

Docker + Trivy

ECR → ECS

Built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines: build → test → scan → push → deploy across 3 environments
Integrated Trivy/Snyk security scanning, reducing container vulnerabilities by 60%
Enabled 15+ weekly deployments with zero-downtime rolling updates on ECS

JenkinsGitHub ActionsDockerTrivyECRECS

Kubernetes & EKS Platform

Argo CD

Helm Charts

EKS Cluster

12 Services

Managed 4 EKS clusters with 8 namespaces, supporting 12 microservices
Implemented GitOps with Argo CD — automated manifest validation and rollout monitoring
Created Golden AMIs with Packer for consistent, fast node provisioning

EKSKubernetesHelmArgo CDPackerRBAC

Observability & Monitoring

CloudWatch

Grafana

Prometheus

OpsGenie

Built centralized dashboards with SLA/SLO-based alerting across 12 microservices
Implemented EFK stack (Elasticsearch, Fluent Bit, Kibana) for centralized logging
Reduced MTTR by 30% and incident detection time by 40% with proactive alerting

CloudWatchGrafanaPrometheusKibanaOpsGenie

Cloud Cost Optimization

Audit

Spot Fleet

Right-sizing

-25% Spend

Migrated non-production workloads to Spot Instances with diversified Instance Fleet
Implemented auto-scaling policies and right-sized EC2/EBS resources
Applied S3 lifecycle policies and cross-region replication for DR compliance

Spot InstancesEC2 FleetAuto ScalingS3 LifecycleSavings Plans

Serverless Automation

CloudWatch Events

Lambda

SNS

Auto-Remediate

Built Python/Boto3 Lambda functions for ECS validations, EC2/EBS cleanup, and inventory auditing
Automated infrastructure health checks and alert handling, saving 6+ hours/week
Implemented event-driven maintenance tasks with CloudWatch Events and SNS notifications

LambdaPython/Boto3CloudWatchSNSEventBridge

AWS DevOps Engineer