Rupesh Gorakhnath Sonawane

Cloud Engineer DevOps Engineer SRE Platform Engineer

Results-driven AWS Cloud & DevOps Engineer with hands-on experience designing scalable cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD automation systems, Kubernetes orchestration platforms, and Infrastructure as Code workflows. Skilled in AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform, Linux, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, and Ansible, with practical expertise in building automated deployment pipelines, containerized production systems, monitoring dashboards, and cloud automation solutions. Experienced in deploying applications on AWS cloud environments, automating infrastructure provisioning, configuring observability platforms, and implementing scalable deployment architectures for modern distributed systems. Passionate about DevOps culture, automation-first engineering, cloud-native technologies, and building reliable systems that improve deployment velocity, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.

DevOps & Cloud Trainee
CloudBlitz Institute — Pune, Maharashtra
2024 – 2025
  • Completed intensive hands-on training across AWS cloud services, Docker containerization, Kubernetes orchestration, Terraform automation, Linux administration, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring systems.
  • Built automated deployment pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, and GitHub Actions, reducing manual deployment effort and improving release workflows.
  • Deployed containerized applications on AWS EC2 and Kubernetes clusters, implementing scalable cloud-native infrastructure environments.
  • Practiced Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible, enabling reproducible and version-controlled cloud provisioning.
  • Configured monitoring dashboards using Prometheus and Grafana for infrastructure observability and performance analysis.
⚙ AWS DevOps CI/CD Pipeline
AWS EC2 · Jenkins · Docker · GitHub Actions · Nginx
  • Designed and implemented a fully automated CI/CD pipeline on AWS, reducing deployment time by ~70% compared to manual processes.
  • Containerized the application using Docker and orchestrated automated build, test, and deploy stages via Jenkins and GitHub Actions webhooks.
  • Deployed production-ready workloads on AWS EC2 behind Nginx reverse proxy with zero-downtime rolling deployments.
  • Integrated environment-specific deployment configurations across Dev, Staging, and Production using parameterized pipeline stages.
☸ Kubernetes Microservices Deployment Platform
Kubernetes · Docker · Helm · Prometheus · Grafana
  • Architected a scalable microservices platform on Kubernetes, deploying multiple services with inter-service communication via ClusterIP and Ingress controllers.
  • Implemented Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) policies, enabling the cluster to handle 3× traffic spikes without manual intervention.
  • Built real-time monitoring dashboards in Grafana connected to Prometheus metrics — achieving full observability across all services with alerting configured for SLA thresholds.
  • Managed application lifecycle using Helm charts, enabling repeatable, versioned deployments across environments.
🏗 Infrastructure as Code — Cloud Provisioning Automation
Terraform · AWS (EC2, VPC, S3, IAM) · Ansible
  • Automated provisioning of an entire AWS cloud environment using Terraform — including VPC, subnets, security groups, EC2 instances, and IAM roles — reducing infrastructure setup time by ~80%.
  • Managed post-provisioning configuration and software installation using Ansible playbooks, enforcing idempotent, version-controlled infrastructure state.
  • Implemented remote Terraform state storage in S3 with DynamoDB state locking, enabling team collaboration without configuration drift.
🧠 AI Emotion Detection System
Python · OpenCV · Machine Learning · scikit-learn
  • Built a real-time AI system capable of detecting and classifying 7 human emotional states from live camera input using computer vision and ML models.
  • Applied advanced preprocessing techniques (histogram equalization, Haar Cascade face detection) to improve detection accuracy by ~25% over baseline.
✋ AI Hand Gesture & Emotion Recognition
Python · OpenCV · Deep Learning · MediaPipe
  • Developed a multi-modal real-time recognition system combining hand gesture tracking (via MediaPipe) and facial emotion analysis in a unified camera-based interface.
  • Optimized inference pipeline to achieve <50ms latency per frame, enabling smooth real-time interaction suitable for human-computer interaction use cases.