YASH BALANI Platform Engineer

I simplify complex engineering decisions into reliable + secure + cost-efficient systems

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Technical Skills

Cloud Infrastructure

EKS ECR ECS (Fargate) EC2 (Linux) EBS S3 Lambda CloudWatch

Cloud Security

VPC IAM Security Groups HashiCorp Vault ALB

CI/CD & GitOps

Github Actions ArgoCD

Container Orchestration

Docker Kubernetes Helm

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Terraform

Observability

Prometheus Grafana Loki OpenTelemetry

Application Security

Snyk Trivy Hadolint OWASP ZAP

Automation

Python MCP

Professional Experience

DevOps Engineer

TheSoul Group | Bengaluru, India (Remote)

May 2025 - Jun 2026

Associate DevOps Engineer

ClickPost | Bengaluru, India

Feb 2023 - May 2025

High Available and Secure EKS Platform Delivery, Cost Optimisation

  • Built reusable CI/CD and GitOps workflows for 15–20 pipelines, cutting lead time (LT) for changes from days to hrs while keeping change failure rate (CFR) below 15%. The work centered on automated image versioning, health checks, rollout checks and rapid rollback to improve deployment reliability at production scale.
  • Supported 1–3 daily deployments across 20 workloads by standardizing ingress routing, health probes, rolling updates and runtime configurations. This kept operational readiness aligned with 300–400 annual production deployments.
  • Improved reliability across 2 clusters by implementing health checks, rollout strategies, Pod Disruption Budgets and automated deployment validation, maintaining 99.5%+ availability.
  • Automated secret distribution and TLS certificate management across services by integrating HashiCorp Vault into deployment workflows that reduced exposure risk and manual rotation effort.
  • Contributed to optimizing $10K–$12K/month infrastructure spend through data-retention policies, resource right-sizing and cluster resource tuning while maintaining production availability and performance.

Multi-environment Reusable IaC Module, Disaster Recovery (DR), Incident Response

  • Maintained reusable IaC modules for multi-environment infrastructure to improve consistency and repeatability that contributed to sub-hour environment provisioning time that accelerates team onboarding.
  • Built an AI-assisted DR Workflow using Claude MCP Server, AWS SDK (Boto3 Python client) to analyze and validate cluster-state backups that saved 7–8 engineering hrs per week.
  • Built an AI-assisted RCA workflow using Claude MCP Server to analyze production logs, metrics and context of complex P1/P2 production incidents that contributed to sub-hour MTTR.

Platform Objectives, Continuous Compliance

  • Partnered with engineering teams to define SLI/SLO targets as per SLA, service health metrics, monitoring and actionable alerting for faster incident detection.
  • Established security guardrails by implementing SAST, SCA, DAST, IAM least-privilege policies, network policies, continuous logging to support audit readiness and GDPR compliance requirements for engineering teams.

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