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Veekunth A.

Veekunth A.

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer | EKS Terraform GitOps | AI & GPU Infra

𝟭𝟯+ 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 that scales from EKS clusters and GitOps pipelines to decentralised GPU compute on Akash and Nosana. I ship clean, documented infrastructure and don't disappear after delivery. I work with start-ups and growing companies that need cloud infrastructure built right the first time secure, automated, observable, and cost-efficient. What I deliver: 𝐀𝐖𝐒 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, Secrets Manager, Route 53 Multi-environment setup with proper isolation and least-privilege access Cost optimisation and right-sizing built into every architecture 𝐊𝐮𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐬 & 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 EKS cluster provisioning with Terraform and Terragrunt GitOps deployments via Argo CD and Helm charts Docker containerisation and microservices deployment 𝐂𝐈/𝐂𝐃 & 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 GitHub Actions and GitLab CI pipelines Deployment time reduced from 45 minutes to under 8 minutes on production systems Self-hosted runners, approval gates, multi-environment rollouts 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐎𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 Prometheus + Grafana dashboards and alerting Datadog, CloudWatch, Loki for logging Incident response runbooks and SLO tracking 𝐀𝐈 & 𝐆𝐏𝐔 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 GPU compute node operations across Akash Network, Nosana, Render Network, io.net, and Vast.ai Private LLM deployment using Ollama, vLLM, and open-source models Hybrid cloud + decentralised GPU architectures for cost-efficient AI inference Docker, Kubernetes, NVIDIA GPU Operator, on-chain provider registration Forward-Deployed AI Engineer experience - private LLM deployment, on-premises inference infrastructure, and AI workflow integration directly within client environments Production highlights: 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐬:- multi-tenant workforce SaaS on EKS: Terraform-managed, GitOps pipeline, Kafka for real-time data, Firebase, PostgreSQL, Redis, Datadog monitoring, daily GDrive backups 𝐍𝐕𝐈 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦:- government vehicle intelligence API on Ubuntu/DigitalOcean: Nginx, PostgreSQL, PM2, multi-environment CI/CD 𝗨𝗦 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗚𝗣𝗨 𝗙𝗮𝗿𝗺:- Akash Network provider with RTX 5070, on-chain bidding, health dashboards, security hardening 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞: Infrastructure is documented from day one - no black boxes Every environment is code - Terraform, no manual console changes 13+ years of real-world experience across startups and enterprise Fast communication, IST timezone with flexible overlap for US/EU/SG hours MSc Advanced Computer Science, University of Leicester If you need AWS infrastructure built, automated, secured, or migrated - let's talk.

🇮🇳Chandigarh, India$50/hr100% JSS5.00 (2)Since May 2013
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Earnings and projects

MRR
$2.4k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#17,479 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#2,239 / 45.9k
Revenue, last 30 days
$2.1k

Last 6 months: $14k

World#19,606 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#2,459 / 45.9k
Total earnings
$15k

Billed in all: $15k

World#164,581 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#21,563 / 45.9k
Per project
$4.9k

$14k in the last 6 months

World#35,398 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#3,920 / 45.9k
Projects, last 6 months
1
0% fixed100% hourly
World#128,092 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#14,379 / 45.9k
Projects in all
3
33% fixed67% hourly
World#304,140 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#37,108 / 45.9k

Earnings, last 30 days

$15.5k+$2.1k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$12k$14k$16kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

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