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Cloud & DevOps Engineer
Seattle, WA · Open to Relocation

Building reliable
cloud infrastructure

I design, automate, and scale production cloud systems across AWS, Azure, and GCP for enterprise and Fortune 500 teams. Security and observability go in from day one, not bolted on after the fact.

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Vidit Pawar
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About

Who I am

I'm a Cloud & DevOps Engineer who turns manual, fragile infrastructure into systems that are secure, automated, and easy to observe. I care about things that hold up under real production load, not just in a demo.

Across AWS, Azure, and GCP, I've standardized 300+ CI/CD pipelines for a HIPAA-regulated healthcare enterprise, kept a Fortune 500 energy client's infrastructure online through 50+ monthly production incidents, and built Terraform-driven cloud benchmarking platforms for research at the University of Arizona.

What excites me most:

Reducing deployment risk through automated testing, security gating, and progressive rollouts
Improving developer experience with self-service infrastructure, golden pipeline templates, and clear documentation
Designing infrastructure that scales without surprises, with observability and cost-efficiency built in from day one
Education

Master of Science

Management Information Systems

University of Arizona · 2024 – 2025

Bachelor of Technology

Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering

University of Mumbai · 2018 – 2022

Open to roles in

Cloud EngineerDevOps EngineerPlatform EngineerSRE

Experience

Where I've worked

McKeever Lab, University of Arizona logo

Cloud Support Engineer

McKeever Lab, University of Arizona

Feb 2026 – Present
  • Engineered an automated cloud benchmarking platform with Terraform, provisioning reproducible Hadoop/Spark environments on Azure to evaluate runtime, resource utilization, reliability, and cost
  • Built a performance optimization engine that analyzes workload and infrastructure metrics to predict execution time, flag resource bottlenecks, and recommend cost-efficient cluster configurations
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona logo

DevOps Engineer Intern

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona

May 2025 – Aug 2025
  • Standardized 300+ CI/CD pipelines across 5 teams by integrating automated SAST/DAST scanning through SonarQube and Veracode, advancing HIPAA-compliant release practices
  • Built PowerShell automation identifying 70+ inactive Azure DevOps users across license tiers, replacing manual account reviews and surfacing roughly $30K in potential annual licensing savings
  • Implemented automated smoke tests and REST API validation checks with email notifications, establishing automated quality gating for critical API pipelines
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Cloud Engineer

LTIMindtree

Jul 2022 – May 2024
  • Engineered Python and AWS Lambda automation across infrastructure provisioning, resource management, monitoring, and optimization, reducing repetitive operational work for cloud infrastructure teams
  • Built Ansible playbooks and Terraform modules to provision and configure Azure infrastructure, cutting manual environment setup time by over 80%
  • Owned 24/7 production reliability for a Fortune 500 energy client, resolving 50+ monthly production incidents through Azure troubleshooting and root-cause remediation
MEDTOUREASY logo

Data Analyst Intern

MEDTOUREASY

Jun 2021 – Jul 2021
  • Built automated reporting dashboards with Power BI and SQL Server, reducing manual reporting by 50%
  • Designed data pipelines for healthcare analytics supporting 10,000+ patient records

Projects

What I've built

01

NYC Taxi Dynamic Fare Estimation Platform

DigitalOceanDockerGitHub ActionsPostgreSQLRedisCI/CD Pipeline60% Faster APIEnv Separation
Problem

Real-time fare estimation requires scalable infrastructure, low-latency APIs, and reliable deployments. Manual deployments and lack of automated testing led to frequent downtime.

DevOps Focus
  • Containerized the ML model and API using Docker for consistent environments
  • Built GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline with automated linting, testing, and deployment
  • Implemented Redis caching layer reducing API response time by 60%
  • Configured environment separation (dev/staging/prod) with managed PostgreSQL
02

YouTube Trends Analytics Pipeline

AWS LambdaS3GlueAthenaQuickSightServerless ETLData LakeCost Optimized
Problem

Processing large-scale YouTube data required serverless architecture that handles variable workloads without over-provisioning. Traditional ETL pipelines were too rigid and expensive at scale.

DevOps Focus
  • Built event-driven data pipeline using AWS Lambda triggered by S3 uploads
  • Automated data cataloging with AWS Glue crawlers for schema discovery
  • Enabled ad-hoc SQL queries on S3 data lake using Athena (no database provisioning)
  • Implemented cost optimization with S3 lifecycle policies and intelligent tiering
03

Bakery Demand Forecasting System

PythonProphetDockerDigitalOceanREST APIScheduled RetrainingAutoscalingObject Storage
Problem

Small businesses struggle to plan seasonal production from historical sales data. This project packages demand forecasting as a cloud service so forecasts can be generated through an API instead of spreadsheets.

DevOps Focus
  • Built a containerized forecasting service using Python and Prophet
  • Deployed on DigitalOcean App Platform with autoscaling containers for inference
  • Used object storage for model artifacts and scheduled batch retraining via cron
  • Exposed forecasts through an HTTPS-secured REST API

Philosophy

How I work

01

Automation-First

If you're doing it manually more than twice, it should be automated. I treat infrastructure as code and deployment as a product feature — it's how I cut manual environment setup time by over 80% at LTIMindtree.

02

Security by Default

Security isn't a checkbox — it's integrated into the pipeline. I've standardized SAST/DAST scanning across 300+ pipelines in a HIPAA-regulated environment without slowing teams down.

03

Observability as a Feature

You can't improve what you can't measure. Monitoring, logging, and alerting are core infrastructure — not afterthoughts bolted on after an incident.

04

Infrastructure as Product

Platform teams exist to enable developers, not gatekeep. I design self-service infrastructure — golden templates, clear docs, safe rollback paths — that's easy to adopt and hard to misuse.

Skills

Technical toolkit

Cloud Platforms

AWS

EC2EKSS3LambdaRDSIAMCloudFormation

Azure

AKSApp ServiceKey VaultAzure DevOpsSecurity Center

GCP

Compute EngineBigQueryCloud Functions

Multi-cloud infrastructure design and migration experience

Infrastructure & Automation

IaC

TerraformAnsibleChefPuppet

CI/CD

GitHub ActionsAzure DevOpsJenkins

Containers

DockerKubernetesHelmArgoCDArgo Rollouts

GitOps workflows and immutable infrastructure patterns

Observability & Security

Monitoring

PrometheusGrafanaCloudWatch

Logging

CloudTrailAzure MonitorELK Stack

Security

VaultVeracodeSonarQubeAzure Security Center

Shift-left security and compliance automation

Programming & Data

Languages

PythonGoBashPowerShellSQLGitGitHub

Databases

PostgreSQLMySQLOracle SQLBigQuery

Analytics

Power BITableau

Infrastructure automation and data pipeline development

Contact

Let's build something
reliable together

I'm actively seeking Cloud, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE-focused roles — open to relocation anywhere in the US. Let's connect and discuss how I can help your team build resilient, scalable systems.