Professional Summary
Fresher Cloud & DevOps Engineer pursuing an M.Sc in Computer Science at the University of Allahabad, following a B.Sc in Mathematics and Computer Applications. Hands-on experience architecting Azure Hub-Spoke network infrastructure using modular Terraform, implementing Zero-Secret Azure Key Vault architectures, enforcing IaC security through tfsec, Checkov, Gitleaks, and TruffleHog, and building secretless CI/CD pipelines across GitHub Actions (OIDC) and Azure DevOps (YAML Pipelines & Self-Hosted Build Agents). Comfortable across Linux, Git, and scripting in Python, Bash, and PowerShell.
Technical Skills
Cloud & Infrastructure:
Microsoft Azure, Terraform (Modular IaC, for_each, Remote State Locking), Azure Key Vault (Private Endpoints, RBAC, Soft Delete/Purge Protection), Azure Application Gateway (WAF), Azure Bastion, Azure VNet/NSG, Azure VM
CI/CD & Runner Eng:
GitHub Actions (OIDC Workload Identity Federation), Azure DevOps (Multi-Stage YAML Pipelines, Service Connections), Self-Hosted Windows/Linux Agent Pools (JIT PowerShell Bootstrapping, Agentless pool: server Gates), Dynamic Monorepo Matrix
Security & FinOps:
tfsec, Checkov (SARIF & JUnit Dashboards), Gitleaks, TruffleHog, TFLint, Terratest, Microsoft Entra ID (RBAC & Managed Identities), Infracost & Azure Retail Prices API, Cloudflare (CDN/DNS)
OS, Scripting & Web:
Linux (Ubuntu), Bash, PowerShell, Python, C++, PHP 8.x, MySQL, REST APIs
Experience
- Modular Hub-Spoke IaC: Deployed modular Terraform IaC with custom, reusable modules (
network, vpn, key_vault) across a Hub-Spoke VNet topology, using for_each maps of objects to dynamically provision subnets and bi-directional peerings, reducing manual provisioning time from days to under 15 minutes.
- Zero-Secret Key Vault Architecture: Engineered dynamic secret injection in Terraform utilizing
random_password, azurerm_key_vault_secret, and System-Assigned Managed Identities (IMDS) over Private Endpoints (privatelink.vaultcore.azure.net) with Entra ID RBAC and Purge Protection—eliminating 100% of plaintext credentials from source control.
- Secretless OIDC & Dual CI/CD Pipelines: Built secretless CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions using Workload Identity Federation (OIDC) and migrated local PowerShell automation to multi-stage Azure DevOps YAML pipelines with locked
terraform plan -out binary artifacts and live FinOps cost estimation.
- Self-Hosted Build Agent Engineering: Stood up and maintained private Windows/Linux self-hosted build agent pools (
Velociraptor-Agent, T-Rex-Agent); authored JIT PowerShell bootstrapping scripts for security binaries and engineered agentless manual validation gates (pool: server) to prevent idle runner thread locks.
- Pre-Merge DevSecOps Governance: Embedded
tfsec, Checkov, Gitleaks, and TruffleHog into pre-merge CI gates with SARIF and JUnit XML reporting—blocking 100% of misconfigurations before deployment.
- High-Availability Load Balancing & State Isolation: Load-balanced a dynamic web application across 3 Azure VMs using Azure Application Gateway behind a Cloudflare-managed subdomain with scoped NSGs; restructured Terraform into isolated
hub/spoke-dev/spoke-prod remote state files for parallel execution without state-lock conflicts.
Projects
- Developed a RESTful API in PHP 8.x with a relational MySQL schema, serving requests in under 200ms.
- Provisioned and secured the Azure VM hosting environment via Terraform, configuring NSGs to restrict unauthorized ports.
- Hardened domain security (
b18g119.online) using Cloudflare CDN, improving content delivery speed by roughly 30%.
Education