Thomas Joseph - DevOps Engineer

About Me

DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience building scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure. Open-source contributor, skilled in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD automation, and container orchestration. Delivered 40% faster release cycles, 80% reduced provisioning time, and 30% lower cloud costs through infrastructure optimization.

Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms

• AWS
• Azure
• DigitalOcean

CI/CD & Automation

• GitHub Actions
• CircleCI
• AWS CodePipeline
• AWS CodeBuild
• Codemagic

Infrastructure as Code

• Terraform
• Ansible

Containerization

• Docker
• Amazon ECS
• Azure Container Apps

Monitoring & Observability

• Prometheus
• Grafana
• AWS CloudWatch
• Uptime Kuma
• Bugsnag

Scripting & Languages

• Python
• Bash
• Node.js
• SQL

Security & DevSecOps

• Snyk
• IAM
• Cloudflare

Databases

• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• Redis
• MongoDB

Web & Networking

• Nginx
• Apache
• DNS
• Cloudflare

Work Experience

Freelance DevOps Engineer

Remote

July 2025 – Present

Migrated Digital Ocean droplets to Hetzner by containerizing workloads (Docker) and deploying behind an Nginx-based ALB 25% cost reduction
Led AWS-to-Azure cloud migration using Terraform modules 40% faster deployment
Designed and deployed secure, scalable AWS and Azure infrastructure for clients
Built reusable, automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
Provided cost-optimization consulting 20-25% cloud spend reduction

DevOps Engineer

Jiltak Inc - Kochi, Kerala, India

Feb 2023 – May 2025

Architected and standardized 15+ CI/CD pipelines for microservices 40% faster releases
Developed 25+ reusable Terraform modules for multi-account AWS/Azure infrastructure 80% faster provisioning
Containerized 10+ microservices with zero-downtime deployments
Implemented observability stack with Prometheus/Grafana 45% faster incident response
Integrated Snyk and Bugsnag into CI/CD 60% fewer vulnerabilities
Optimized cloud costs 30% monthly savings while maintaining 99.9% availability

Systems Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services - Chennai, India

Jan 2020 – Nov 2022

Optimized AWS-hosted databases 20% faster query execution
Automated maintenance across 500+ Linux/Windows servers 25% better resource utilization
Managed identity and access for 5,000+ users via Active Directory and OKTA
Resolved 1,200+ support tickets with 98% SLA compliance

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

2022

Gremlin Certified Enterprise Chaos Engineering

2021

AWS Academy Cloud Architecting

2020

Open Source Contributions

Published reusable DevOps tools and modules used by the developer community

GitHub Actions Published

Locust Load Testing Action - Automates load testing within CI/CD pipelines using Locust

Manual Approval Workflow Action - Introduces manual approval steps in GitHub Actions workflows

EC2 SSM Command Runner - Enables remote shell command execution on AWS EC2 instances using SSM

Remote Docker Runner - SSH into remote servers and run Docker containers with environment secrets

View on GitHub Marketplace →

Terraform Modules Published

Reusable Modules for AWS and Azure - Modular, production-ready Terraform templates

Simplifies cloud infrastructure provisioning with consistent, reusable code

View on Terraform Registry →