Cloud platforms
Designing and running platforms on AWS, GCP and Azure: migrating off legacy infrastructure, self-service provisioning and cloud cost visibility.
DevOps · Multi-cloud · Kubernetes
Pakeeru Basha Mekala
DevOps Engineer · AWS, GCP, Azure · Kubernetes · GitOps
DevOps engineer building and running cloud platforms across AWS, GCP and Azure, with Kubernetes, GitOps and infrastructure as code. Currently a Senior DevOps Consultant at Equal Experts, after years of CI/CD, observability and platform engineering at Tata Consultancy Services in India and the UK.
- 9+years in DevOps
- 150+microservices monitored
- 3clouds: AWS, GCP, Azure
what I do
Kubernetes and GitOps
Highly available EKS clusters, Helm releases and ArgoCD GitOps deployments, plus Kubernetes on-prem and on Azure Kubernetes Service.
CI/CD and automation
Pipelines with blue/green and canary deployments and security and quality scanning early on, with infrastructure as code in Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane and Ansible.
Observability
Monitoring for 150+ microservices with Prometheus, Grafana and CloudWatch, alerting through PagerDuty, and 24/7 on-call with root cause analysis.
experience
Senior DevOps Consultant @ Equal Experts
Mar 2025 - Present · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid
- Lead end-to-end, multi-cloud delivery across AWS, GCP and Azure for multiple teams, deploying containerised apps on Kubernetes with Helm and GitOps.
- Introduced AI-assisted DevOps to fix pipeline failures and container-image vulnerabilities, and enabled MCP workflows for day-to-day ops in natural language (logs, deployment and service health).
- Led the Terraform Cloud to Scalr migration: remote state, workspaces and policy-as-code with improved governance and cost visibility.
DevOps Engineer @ Tata Consultancy Services
Nov 2016 - Feb 2025
Waitrose
Feb 2021 - Feb 2025 · Bracknell, England, United Kingdom
- Led the migration of legacy infrastructure to the cloud and built a self-service portal for provisioning and de-provisioning resources.
- Ran highly available EKS clusters (Helm releases, ArgoCD GitOps) and provisioned infrastructure with CloudFormation, Terraform, Crossplane and Ansible, including custom modules.
- Built Groovy DSL CI/CD pipelines with blue/green and canary deployments and early quality checks; managed Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube and the Elastic Stack.
- Instrumented 150+ microservices (CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, PagerDuty) and built cloud cost optimisation metrics.
OmniStore
Nov 2016 - Jan 2021 · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Led CI/CD with Jenkins and shell scripting; containerised apps with Docker and integrated SAST, DAST and open-source scanning with artifact repositories and quality gates.
- Implemented zero-downtime deployments on AWS ECS and Azure Kubernetes Service, and ran Kubernetes on on-prem VMs, including cluster upgrades.
- Part of the 24/7 on-call team: incident management, root cause analysis and permanent fixes; supported global development teams.
skills
NAMEREADYSTATUSTOOLS
site-deploy1/1Succeeded
cloud1/1RunningAWS, Azure, GCP
infrastructure-as-code1/1RunningTerraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane, Ansible, Scalr
containers-orchestration1/1RunningDocker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, Flux
ci-cd1/1RunningJenkins (Groovy DSL), GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Octopus Deploy, Blue/Green & Canary, Nexus
security-scanning1/1RunningTrivy, Snyk, Orca, SonarQube
monitoring-observability1/1RunningPrometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, ELK, PagerDuty
Skill rows are decorative (no cluster behind them). The site-deploy row is live from GitHub Actions.
Cloud
Infrastructure as Code
Containers & Orchestration
CI/CD
Security & Scanning
Monitoring & Observability
education
Electronics and Communications Engineering
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) · G. Pulla Reddy Engineering College · 2013 - 2016
contact
Reach me at m.pakeerubasha@gmail.com or find me on LinkedIn.
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