Kapil Kumaria

Experience

Progressive ownership across cloud architecture, DevOps platforms, Kubernetes environments, CI/CD systems, and MLOps workflows — primarily on AWS with multi-cloud exposure.

DevOps Engineer / MLOps Engineer

705 · Dec 2023 – Present · Remote (Spain)

Cloud-native DevOps and MLOps ownership for production Kubernetes platforms on AWS, supporting multiple engineering teams and ML workloads.

  • • Owned and operated production CI/CD platforms for Java and containerized workloads using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, and Kubernetes — improving build and deployment efficiency by ~20%.
  • • Led containerization and Kubernetes orchestration of microservices across teams, improving deployment consistency, scalability, and runtime reliability.
  • • Designed and automated AWS infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Ansible, enabling secure, reproducible, and scalable environments.
  • • Architected Kubernetes networking and ingress using ALB, Route 53, and cert-manager with automated TLS management.
  • • Established IaC-first and GitOps workflows, improving collaboration, auditability, and environment parity across development and production.
  • • Designed and implemented end-to-end MLOps workflows covering model versioning, containerization, deployment, inference serving, scaling, and lifecycle management.
  • • Deployed ML inference services on Kubernetes using both custom Flask/Gunicorn setups and KServe, evaluating trade-offs in scalability and operability.
  • • Implemented secure ML workflows on AWS SageMaker, applying IAM role separation and enterprise security controls.
  • • Integrated continuous security scanning into CI/CD pipelines (Trivy, AWS Inspector), reducing critical vulnerabilities by ~35%.

DevOps Engineer

Jumio Corporation · Oct 2022 – Nov 2023 · Remote (USA)

DevOps engineering for security-sensitive, customer-facing applications running on AWS and Kubernetes.

  • • Supported and secured production Kubernetes environments, applying GitOps practices with Argo CD for declarative deployments.
  • • Designed and operated CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and release workflows.
  • • Implemented observability and monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana, improving production visibility and incident response time.
  • • Deployed and managed centralized logging using the ELK stack.
  • • Implemented rolling and blue-green deployments, enabling zero-downtime releases.
  • • Participated in incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation for production systems.
  • • Conducted vulnerability assessments and coordinated patch management.

DevOps Engineer

Asendia UK Limited · Jun 2020 – Sep 2022 · Remote

Remote DevOps support for distributed teams across CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud automation.

  • • Led migration from monolithic applications to containerized microservices using Docker and Kubernetes.
  • • Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
  • • Built reusable Terraform modules, accelerating infrastructure provisioning.
  • • Implemented Kubernetes security controls including RBAC, secrets management, and network policies.
  • • Adopted GitOps-based delivery using Argo CD.
  • • Implemented monitoring and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager.
  • • Managed Helm charts for standardized deployments.

AWS Solutions Architect

Darey Consulting LLC · May 2018 – May 2020

  • • Designed and migrated customer workloads to AWS, improving scalability, availability, and security posture.
  • • Architected secure, highly available AWS solutions for public-facing applications.
  • • Implemented IAM roles, policies, and least-privilege access controls.
  • • Collaborated with stakeholders to define cloud architecture standards and best practices.

Technical Cloud Support Engineer

Zooto Technologies · Oct 2016 – Apr 2018

  • • Provided AWS and Linux system administration support for enterprise environments.
  • • Supported large-scale data ingestion and ETL pipelines (Kafka, Spark, Hive, Sqoop).
  • • Automated deployments using AWS CodePipeline and CodeDeploy.
  • • Managed S3, IAM roles, and access policies.
  • • Acted as Hadoop SME within the support team.