GOKULAKANNAN R C

I’m a Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 3+ years of hands-on experience designing, automating, securing, and optimizing production cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure.

I specialize in helping businesses build reliable and scalable cloud environments, automate deployments, improve infrastructure security, and reduce unnecessary cloud costs. My core expertise includes AWS, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD, Linux, networking, serverless architecture, monitoring, and cloud security.

I have worked on production platforms involving AWS EC2, Lightsail, S3, RDS, ECS, ECR, Lambda, API Gateway, Elastic Beanstalk, Load Balancers, Cognito, CloudFront, VPC, IAM, WAF, Route 53, ACM, KMS, Parameter Store, EventBridge, and CloudWatch. I use Terraform to provision and recreate infrastructure consistently and build CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket Pipelines and GitHub Actions to automate application and container deployments.

My experience goes beyond simply deploying applications to the cloud. I have designed complete architectures covering frontend delivery, backend services, databases, ETL pipelines, reporting systems, containerized workloads, APIs, security controls, monitoring, and automated deployments.

I also focus heavily on cloud optimization. In one production environment, I helped reduce AWS infrastructure costs from approximately $3,000 per month to $1,500–$1,700 through infrastructure optimization and automated non-production environment scheduling. I have also improved API performance by up to 80%, reduced manual operational work by 70%, and automated repetitive ETL and deployment processes.

Security is an important part of my approach. I implement least-privilege IAM, restrictive Security Groups, private/internal service communication, WAF protection, TLS/SSL, encryption, API authentication, rate limiting, and secure configuration management.

Whether you need help setting up AWS infrastructure, migrating workloads, implementing Terraform, building CI/CD pipelines, containerizing applications, troubleshooting production issues, or reducing cloud costs, I focus on building solutions that are **secure, reliable, automated, maintainable, and cost-effective**.