Hello, I'm Sumesh
On a journey of building bridges between code, cloud, and culture.
About
I’m a DevOps engineer and cloud architect with 6+ years of experience building scalable, secure, and automated infrastructure.
I work across cloud architecture, platform engineering, and developer enablement—helping teams ship faster and operate with confidence.
My goal is to keep improving the “golden path” for developers: reliable systems, smooth pipelines, and practical tooling that gets out of the way.
Technical Skills
Core competencies and specialized skills in DevOps and cloud infrastructure
Professional Experience
My journey through various roles and responsibilities.
Eventbrite, Senior Software Engineer - Platform (DevOps)
Oct 2023 — Present• Built a self-service CLI for infrastructure, reducing infra admin TOIL by 30%.
• Designed CDK constructs for canary releases serverless services (AWS Lambda/Fargate) with auto-rollback, improving
recovery time, reliability and manual effort. Uptime of 99.9%
• Developed monitors for CI/CD pipelines with DORA metrics for deployment visibility and efficiency insights.
• Optimized AWS infrastructure reducing monthly cloud costs by about 10%.
- AWS EKS
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- AWS CDK Constructs
- CircleCI
- GithubActions
- AWS Codebuild/Codepipeline
- AWS Lambda
- AWS Fargate
- AWS ECR
- AWS Coudwatch
- AWS Eventbridge
- AWS SNS
- Hashicorp Vault
- Python
- Bash
- TypeScript
- Golang
Appsmith, DevOps Engineer
Feb 2022 — Oct 2023• Built a backup and restore CLI utility for Appsmith, streamlining data management.
• Integrated health checks in NGINX with a loading screen, cutting onboarding queries by 50%.
• Created a pipeline to publish Appsmith machine images for AWS and Azure VMs.
• Designed and documented self-hosting Appsmith serverless(ECS Fargate, Azure Container Instance).
• Integrated Grafana Stack Monitoring (Prometheus, Tempo, Loki) for metrics, traces, and logs.
- AWS EKS
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Helm
- AWS ECS
- MongoDB
- Terraform
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- GithubActions
- Python
- TypeScript
- Bash
- Technical Writing
- Techincal Support L2
Voiro, Software Engineer - Backend
Apr 2021 – Feb 2022• Designed, developed, and modernized backend services with RESTful APIs.
• Integrated notifications using Firebase FCM for real-time updates.
- AWS EC2
- Docker
- Postgres
- Python
- Django REST Framework
- Redis
- Terraform
- Firebase FCM
Sonicwall, Software Dev Associate Engineer
Mar 2019 – Apr 2021• Designed, developed, and modernized backend services with RESTful APIs.
• Developed various SonicTools, internal dashboards, and automation scripts to improve team productivity.
• Managed the infrastructure and deployment of serevised in the Dev and QA servers
- AWS EC2
- Docker
- Python
- Flask
- Perl
- Bash
Credentials
Selected accreditations and certifications with dates and source links.
What I Do
Turning complexity into clear, working systems.
Cloud Engineering
Design and implement secure, scalable cloud solutions with an eye for cost, reliability, and operability.
DevOps & Automation
Design and automate CI/CD pipelines with quality gates, artifact signing, and zero-downtime deploys.
Monitoring & Observability
Designing and implementing comprehensive monitoring and observability solutions that provide deep insights into system performance and health.
Software Development
Building maintainable, performant applications with a focus on user experience and code quality.
Get In Touch
Feel free to reach out by email or connect via LinkedIn.