YASH BALANI Platform Engineer

Building revenue-reliable DevOps Systems without inflating cost and engineer burnout

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Professional Experience

Automated Continuous Security Integration & Kubernetes Delivery Platform

Impact: Reduced Environment Setup Time to <30 min & Failed Production Deployments by 35%

  • Engineered and scaled Kubernetes application delivery by developing reusable CI/CD templates organization-wide to reduce developer environment setup time from several hours to under 30 minutes while lowering failed production deployments by approximately 35% through automated validation, image versioning, and rollout checks.
  • Architected the integration of HashiCorp Vault into deployment workflows and automated TLS certificate management, to eliminate manual credential distribution while reducing secret rotation effort by approximately 60%.
  • Strengthened production deployment safety for high-volume workloads by designing and implementing automated deployment validation, progressive rollout strategies, health checks, and rapid rollback mechanisms to minimize risk without sacrificing velocity.
GitHub Actions Docker Kubernetes Helm AWS Snyk (SAST, SCA) Hadolint (Container Scanning) Trivy (Image Scanning) OWASP ZAP (DAST) Terraform HashiCorp Vault

Reusable Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code & Compliance Guardrails

Impact: Reduced Provisioning Time to <1 Hour & Standardized Security Baselines for Audit Readiness

  • Designed and maintained the core repository of reusable Terraform modules for multi-environment AWS infrastructure to reduce environment provisioning time from several hours to under 1 hour while improving consistency and reliability of production environments.
  • Established secure platform baselines and infrastructure security controls by implementing automated deployment guardrails to directly support organization-wide security initiatives, audit readiness, and strict compliance requirements across engineering teams.
Terraform AWS IAM VPC Security Groups Load Balancers

Multi-Tier Platform Centralized Observability & Core SLI/SLO Optimization Framework

Impact: Reduced Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) Production Issues by 40%

  • Spearheaded the deployment of a centralized observability stack to provide standardized dashboards, proactive alerting and workload visibility to reduce mean time to detect (MTTD) production issues by approximately 40%.
  • Collaborated closely with application teams to define critical service health metrics, availability objectives, and actionable alerting strategies aligned with business SLI/SLO targets to measurably improve production visibility for customer-facing services.
Prometheus Grafana Loki

High-Availability SRE & Self-Healing Operations

Impact: Maintained 99.5%+ Availability & Saved 8–10 Manual Hours/Week

  • Standardized Kubernetes runtime safety configurations—including readiness/liveness probes, core Services, Ingress routing, Pod Disruption Budgets, and rolling update validations—ensuring highly available production deployments that consistently maintained service availability above 99.5%.
  • Eliminated recurring toil by engineering Python and Bash automation scripts for routine operations (infrastructure validation, pod health verification, Linux administration, and log collection) and successfully saved 8–10 manual engineering hours per week.
  • Served as a core responder for production incidents, troubleshooting complex infrastructure and Kubernetes runtime issues, while consistently documenting rigorous Root Cause Analyses (RCAs) and translating post-mortem findings into preventative runbook automation.
Kubernetes Python Bash

Career Journey

DevOps Engineer - R&D Team

TheSoul Group | Remote (India)

May 2025 - Jun 2026

AI/ML based SaaS platform for Automated AI-generated Content Research and Delivery

Trading SaaS Platform to build, backtest and automate Strategies for Retail Traders

Associate DevOps Engineer

ClickPost | Bengaluru, India

Jul 2023 - May 2025

B2B SaaS platform that enhances the Post Purchase Experience for E-commerce Business

Education

B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering, Automation

SRM Institute of Science and Technology | Kattankulathur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

June 2018 - May 2022

GPA: 9.01/10