Cloud Engineer - GCP & Terraform Specialist

MITHULSUDHARSAN RAVIKUMAR

Arizona 551-***-**** ***************@*****.*** linkedin.com/in/mithul-ravikumar/ EDUCATION

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona May2025

Master of Science, Information Technology GPA:4.0/4.0 Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, India May2023 Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science &Engineering. GPA:3.8/4.0 SKILLS

Certifications: Azure Fundamentals (Microsoft), Software Engineering Virtual Experience, Goldman Sachs (2023), CCNA Red hat certified system administrator& Red hat certified engineer, CKA (On Process) Terraform Associate AWS Solution Architect (Verification Number) 599fe6b2-4366-4186-99ed-1d084fd3f406 GCP Professional Cloud Architect (Verification Number) 55de3da1-1840-47bc-b361-b3a67bbb2363 Core Competencies: Cloud Computing, DevOps, Networking, Infrastructure, MS Office, Microservices, Virtualization Technical Skills: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, CI/CD, Elastic Search, Kafka, Hadoop, HBase, MongoDB, Apache Spark, Grafana, Prometheus, Power BI, Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS), OpenShift, VMware Python, Shell Scripting, AWS, Azure,, GO,,SONAR QUBE,HTML,CSS, Argo. KVM, GIT, Pod man, Azure AD, TCP/IP, OSI Soft Skills: Communication, Presentation, Leadership, Time Management, Strategical Thinking, open-source contributor, Collaboration WORK EXPERIENCE

American Express, Phoenix, USA June 2025 – Present Cloud Engineer – GCP & Terraform

• Wrote Sentinel policies to limit deployments to n+2 approved images, improving compliance and image hygiene.

• Wrote and executed automated tests using pytest, improving code reliability and catching issues earlier in the development

• Implemented cloud security best practices across GCP, using automation to enforce compliance and strengthen security.

• Applied security protocols such as TLS/SSL, SSH, and OAuth in projects, ensuring auth transmission and access control.

• Automated TFE environment creation management using IAC Api backed by Go scripts, integrating with CI/CD pipelines

• Lead as SME for Hashi Corp Vault Cost cutting, using AWS & Google WIF to authenticate workload cutting costs by 60%. Arizona State University, Tempe, USA August2023 – May 2025 Data Centre and Infrastructure Support Engineer

• Resolved 200+ technical issues within SLA, boosting system performance and reducing downtime by 20%.

• Implemented and repaired hardware Cable, servers, PDUs issues, reducing downtime by 50% through proactive maintenance.

• Hands-on experience in data center racking, stacking and network infrastructure, enhancing hardware deployment skills.

• Managed hardware lifecycle, tracking RMAs, inventory, audits and vendor coordination reducing asset loss by 25%.

• Provided 24x7 rotational shift, on-call support, ensuring rapid incident resolution and maintaining 99% service availability.

• Log analysis & monitoring using tools like Splunk, Grafana & Prometheus reducing resolution time by 30%. COS GRID NETWORK, Chennai, India January 2022 – May 2023 Cloud Operation and Network Engineer

• Implemented VLAN segmentation and subnetting strategies, improving network security and traffic management by 40%.

• Built CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for faster and automated deployments to App Services and Function Apps.

• Gained practical experience with AI/ML fundamentals, including common algorithms and basic model implementation

• Worked with container security concepts for Docker/Kubernetes, performing vulnerability scanning

• Implemented Infrastructure as Code with Terraform & Ansible, enabling automated scaling & reducing manual effort 35%.

• Worked with cross-functional teams SRE, Security, and Networking to optimized and improving deployment rate by 25%.

• Boosted network reliability & enhanced security by optimizing TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing firewalls, LAN/WAN setups.

• Maintained Confluence documentation & JIRA SRUM, improving troubleshooting efficiency & knowledge transfer. MITHI SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY, Pune, India October 2021 – January 2022 Cloud System Administrator (Linux) Intern

• Engineered Bash and Python scripts to automate AWS data extraction for integration with Wormly, enhancing metrics.

• Cut provisioning time by 40%, reduced errors by 25%, and lowered costs by 15% with Ansible and Terraform automation.

• Strengthened server security by 50% through configuring HTTP server with IP table access restrictions.

• Configured docker-based Postfix Mail server with alter mime, sending over 100 mails successfully

• Managed end-to-end hosting of dynamic company website with full DNS integration and 99% uptime SLA. PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Search & Sensei Optimization Project (Personal Project)

• Built a search optimization system using Elasticsearch and Kafka, improving data indexing and query speed for a mock e- commerce platform. Achieved 500 queries per second with sub-second latency. - Created Go microservices for APIs, Reflex Face-Recognition Attendance System with Mailing

• Built a face recognition-based attendance tracking system using OpenCV and Python, automating record generation & Email PUBLICATIONS

Abstractive Text Summarization Using Keywords with Transformers Model (IEEE Xplore) (DOI: 10.1109/ICONSTEM56934.2023.10142867) Used BERT & Transformers for text summarization, focusing on keyword

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