Devdas Mahato
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DevdasMahato

Platform Engineer · Cloud DevSecOps · 10 Years
I reduced deployment time from 2 hours to 12 minutes. Automated 50+ production deployments. Maintained 99.9% uptime. Cut costs by 35%.
"Reduced deployment time from 2 hours to 12 minutes. Automated 50+ production deployments. Built monitoring that caught 15+ incidents before customers noticed."
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Open to Work
Remote-friendly roles
"The best infrastructure is invisible infrastructure"

Every system I build is designed to run silently in the background — automatically healing, automatically scaling, automatically alerting. The goal is zero manual intervention.

From writing the first Terraform module to managing 100+ Kubernetes containers in production, my journey has been about eliminating toil and building platforms that teams trust.

The terminal you see is my daily environment — infrastructure as code, deployed automatically, monitored continuously.

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Years Experience
Platform Engineering & Cloud DevSecOps
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Deployments Shipped
Across production environments
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Faster Deploys
From 2hrs → 12min average
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Cost Reduction
Infrastructure optimization
Case Studies
Real Problems Solved at Scale

Not just tools — problems I solved, impact delivered, numbers that prove it.

Case Study #1
CI/CD Pipeline Transformation
Reduced deployment from 2 hours to 12 minutes across 15+ microservices
Problem

Deployments took 2+ hours. Manual steps, no rollback, inconsistent environments. Team spent 15+ hours/week on deployments.

Solution

End-to-end CI/CD with GitHub Actions — automated testing, security scanning, container builds, staged rollouts to AKS. Blue-green with automated rollback.

Result

Deploy: 12 minutes. Zero-downtime. Team reclaimed 40+ hrs/month. Success rate: 98.4%.

2 hours→ 12 min15 hrs/wk→ 2 hrs/wk98.4% success40+ hrs/mo saved
GitHub ActionsAzure DevSecOpsAKSDockerHelm
Case Study #2
Infrastructure as Code — Full Cloud Provisioning
From 3-day manual provisioning to 15-minute automated deployment
Problem

New environments took 3-5 days of manual Azure clicks. Config drift caused 40% of incidents. No DR automation.

Solution

Modular Terraform with 10+ reusable modules. Remote state with locking, workspace separation, Ansible post-provisioning.

Result

3 days → 15 minutes. Zero config drift. DR in 20 minutes. Cost reduced 35%.

3-5 days→ 15 min40% incidents→ 0%35% cost saved
TerraformAzureAnsibleRemote State
Case Study #3
Observability Stack — From Blind to Full Visibility
Reduced incident detection from 45 minutes to under 3 minutes
Problem

No monitoring. Outages from customer complaints. Detection: 45 min. MTTR: 2+ hours.

Solution

Prometheus + Grafana with 50+ alerts, custom dashboards, tracing across 20+ services.

Result

Detection: 45 min → 3 min. MTTR: 2+ hrs → 20 min. Uptime: 99.5% → 99.9%.

45 min detect→ 3 min2+ hr MTTR→ 20 min99.9% uptime
PrometheusGrafanaAlertManager
Transformation
Before I Arrived vs After I Built
❌ Before
  • Manual deployments via SSH
  • 2-3 hour deployment windows
  • No automated testing
  • Configuration drift
  • 45-min incident detection
  • No IaC, no versioning
  • Manual disaster rebuild (days)
  • 3-5 day provisioning
✅ After
  • Fully automated CI/CD
  • 12-minute zero-downtime deploys
  • Automated testing + scanning
  • 100% IaC — zero drift
  • 3-min detection + alerting
  • Version-controlled Terraform
  • DR environment in 20 min
  • New environments in 15 min
Skill Proficiency
Technical Depth

Years of hands-on production experience with each technology.

Terraform / IaC
95%
Kubernetes / AKS
90%
CI/CD Pipelines
95%
Azure Cloud
92%
Prometheus / Grafana
88%
Docker / Containers
93%
Ansible
85%
Python / Bash
82%
System Architecture
What I Designed & Manage
Production Platform Architecture
Source
Git · PR Review
CI/CD
GitHub Actions
Registry
Docker · ACR
AKS
100+ Pods
Monitor
Prometheus
IaC
Terraform
Azure
50+ VMs
Ansible
Config Mgmt
Security
DevSecOps
Grafana
50+ Alerts
Career Impact
What I Delivered In Each Role

Not just titles — the specific impact and scale of work.

2024 — Present

Senior Platform Engineer

Managing 100+ containers on Kubernetes. CI/CD for 40+ developers. Terraform modules adopted org-wide.

40+ teams100+ containersKubernetesTerraform
2021 — 2024

DevSecOps Engineer

Built monitoring from zero — 20+ services. IaC with 10+ Terraform modules. Automated from weekly to daily.

20+ servicesPrometheusGrafana
2018 — 2021

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Managed 50+ VMs on Azure. Provisioning from days to hours. Networking and security architecture.

50+ VMsAzureNetworking
2015 — 2018

Systems / Linux Administrator

100+ Linux servers, 99.9% uptime. Automated 60% of admin with Bash/Python.

100+ serversLinuxPython
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Containers Managed
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Pipelines Automated
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Dev Teams Supported
Technology Matrix
Tools I Use to Deliver Results

☁️ Cloud

Azure (50+ VMs)Virtual NetworksIAM / RBAC

🏗️ IaC

Terraform (10+ modules)AnsibleRemote State

🔄 CI/CD

GitHub Actions (15+)Azure DevSecOpsHelm

☸️ Containers

Kubernetes (100+ pods)DockerHPA

📊 Observability

Prometheus (50+ alerts)GrafanaAlertManager

💻 Scripting

PythonBashLinux
Automation Flow
CI/CD Pipeline I Built

The pipeline that cut deployments from 2 hours to 12 minutes.

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Git PushPR + Review
🔍
Lint & TestAutomated
🛡️
Security ScanDevSecOps
📦
Build & PushDocker → ACR
🚀
Deploy StageAKS
Health CheckAuto-Validate
🎯
Deploy ProdBlue-Green
DORA Metrics
Delivery Performance
Deployment Frequency
Per Week
Lead Time
Hours
Change Failure Rate
Percentage
MTTR
Minutes
Deployment Frequency
Pipeline Success Rate
98.4%
Engineering Portfolio
Projects with Measurable Impact

CI/CD Pipeline Automation

90% faster 40 hrs/mo saved

End-to-end CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Azure DevSecOps. Automated build, test, security, deployment for 15+ services.

GitHub ActionsAzure DevSecOpsAKS
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Kubernetes Production Platform

100+ containers Zero downtime

Production AKS clusters serving 100+ containers. HPA, ingress, blue-green deployments.

KubernetesDockerHelm
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Infrastructure as Code Framework

3 days → 15 min 35% saved

Modular Terraform with 10+ reusable modules. Zero config drift. DR in 20 min.

TerraformAzureAnsible
View on GitHub →

Observability Stack

45 min → 3 min 99.9% uptime

Prometheus + Grafana covering 20+ services with 50+ alerts. Detection from 45 min to 3 min.

PrometheusGrafana
View on GitHub →
Code Showcase
Infrastructure Code I Write
main.tf — Production AKS
Terraform
# Production AKS — 100+ containers resource "azurerm_kubernetes_cluster" "prod" { name = "aks-prod-westus2" location = azurerm_resource_group.prod.location default_node_pool { name = "system" node_count = 5 enable_auto_scaling = true min_count = 3 max_count = 12 } tags = { managed_by = "terraform" } }
deploy.yml — CI/CD
GitHub Actions
name: Production Deploy (12 min) on: push: branches: [main] jobs: deploy: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - run: make test - run: | docker build -t app:${{ github.sha }} . helm upgrade --install app ./chart
Principles
How I Think About Engineering
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Measure Everything

Every system has metrics, alerts, dashboards. Numbers drive decisions.

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Automate the Pain

If it takes 5+ minutes manually, it gets automated. If it fails, it gets a rollback.

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Design for Failure

Production will break. The question: how fast can we recover?

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Show the Numbers

Impact without metrics is opinion. I track frequency, lead time, MTTR.

Feedback
What Colleagues Say
Devdas cut deployment from hours to minutes. The CI/CD he built handles 15 services autonomously. Best investment we made.
SK
Engineering Manager
Platform Lead
The Terraform framework eliminated config drift entirely. 3-day provisioning to 15 minutes. Game changer.
AR
Staff Platform Engineer
DevSecOps Guild
His monitoring caught 15+ incidents before customers noticed. Detection from 45 min to under 3. Transformed.
JP
CTO
FinTech Startup
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Let's Build Something That Works

Looking for a Platform Engineering role with production-proven impact.

Open to Cloud DevSecOps & Platform Engineering roles

📍 Remote-friendly opportunities worldwide

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