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Infrastructure & Reliability Engineer operating and securing production cloud platforms on AWS. 6+ years delivering 99.92% uptime, sub-hour disaster recovery, zero-downtime failovers, and 30% cost reduction across distributed systems.

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Reliability &
Operations

Capacity Planning, Auto-Scaling (ECS, Redis/Valkey, OpenSearch), Disaster Recovery (IaC-based), Database Failover Testing, Incident Response & RCA, Runbook Automation, On-Call, SLI/SLO Monitoring. 99.92% platform uptime.

99.92%
DR <2hr
RCA
SLI/SLO
02 / 05

Containers &
Observability

Docker, ECS (EC2 & Fargate), ECR, Kubernetes, SOCI (70% faster startup), ARM/Graviton. CloudWatch Metrics/Logs/Alarms, Log Insights, Anomaly Detection, X-Ray Tracing, Prometheus & Grafana.

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Cloud & Data
Pipelines

AWS (EC2, Lambda, ALB, Route 53, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, OpenSearch, MSK, Glue, Redshift, CloudFront). IaC (CDK, CloudFormation). CDC pipelines: Debezium, MSK (Kafka), Glue, Redshift, S3 Data Lake.

AWS
MSK
S3
RDS
Glue
CDK
Redshift
04 / 05

Security &
Compliance

CIS Benchmarks (100%), WAF, Shield, ISO 27001, GDPR, DPDPA, OWASP Top 10, CSPM, SAST (Snyk), AWS Inspector, Penetration Testing. Raised AWS Security score from 64% to 98%.

ISO 27001GDPRCIS 100%
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Languages &
Databases

TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Node.js. PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey/Redis, OpenSearch. Built GL-CloudETL (Debezium + MSK + Glue). Upgraded Ruby on Rails 5.2 to 7.2.3 across production.

const pipeline = require('gl-cloud-etl');
const source = 'debezium-cdc';
async function streamData() {
  const events = await msk.consume();
  const mapped = glue.transform(events);
  await redshift.load(mapped);
  console.log(`Synced ${events.length}`);
}
02 // EXPERIENCE

Where I've Worked

All at Great Learning - from instructor to leading SecOps.
Lead Security Operations EngineerMAY 2025 - PRESENT
Great Learning . Bangalore
  • Cut AWS spend 30% via ARM Graviton + autoscaling.
  • CloudWatch observability - metrics, dashboards, alarms, Log Insights.
  • ISO 27001 via quarterly DR drills and access reviews.
  • Performance +20-30% through ECS task tuning.
  • Zero-downtime DB upgrades. IaC migration. MTTR reduction.
* Extra Mile - May 2025
Senior Security Operations EngineerAPR 2022 - MAY 2025
Great Learning . Bangalore
  • CIS Benchmarks; Security Hub, GuardDuty, CloudTrail.
  • ECS platform ops - rolling deploys, health, scaling.
  • WAF + CDK DR - recovery time down 30%.
  • ISO 27001:2013 certification. Lambda automation.
  • Snyk & CodeQL - vulns down 25%. Docker hardening.
* Extra Mile - Sep 2023
Security Operations EngineerFEB 2021 - MAY 2022
Great Learning . Bangalore
  • Pentesting & code reviews (OWASP Top 10, iOS/Android).
  • WAF rules & CloudWatch alarms. Phishing sims - risk down 35%.
Cyber Security InstructorSEP 2019 - FEB 2021
Great Learning . Delhi
  • Pentesting & cloud security training. Curriculum and lab development.
03 // PROJECTS

Open Source

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04 // BLOG

Writing

Technical deep-dives on ECS, AWS, and cloud ops.
FEB 2025

Secure Your Vibe Coding Projects

Ship fast without shipping insecure.

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AUG 2025

ECS Service Discovery

Hardcoding IP is not a plan.

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DEC 2024

Scaling Redis Like a Pro

Production Redis scaling.

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AUG 2024

GPU ECS Containers with CDK

GPU workloads via IaC.

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APR 2024

Autoscale ECS EC2 with ASGs

ECS autoscaling.

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DEC 2023

From Code to Cloud

Deploy to AWS end-to-end.

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Tech conversations powered by AI — covering cloud, infrastructure, security, and engineering stories from my career.

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AI-generated episodes exploring topics from my day-to-day work — disaster recovery automation, container orchestration, scaling production systems, and building resilient cloud platforms.

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Why AI-Generated?

I use AI tools to turn my technical blog posts and experience into podcast-format audio content. It's an experiment in making deep technical knowledge more accessible and listenable.

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Always up for a real conversation about cloud infra, reliability engineering, or the SecOps-to-SRE journey. Hit me up at iamsiddhanthdwivedi@gmail.com

06 // EDUCATION

Education

B.Tech, CS&E

MSIT, Delhi
2017 - 2020

Diploma, CS&E

Govt Polytechnic, Mohali
2013 - 2016
07 // CONTACT

Let's Work Together

Open to SRE and Security Engineering roles.

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Siddhanth Dwivedi

+91 8968562055 | iamsiddhanthdwivedi@gmail.com | github.com/mafiaguy | linkedin.com/in/mafiaguy
Summary

Infrastructure & Reliability Engineer with 6+ years operating and securing production cloud platforms on AWS. Core strengths in resilient architectures, data pipelines (CDC/ETL), disaster recovery automation, and observability across distributed systems. Delivered 30% AWS cost reduction, sub-hour DR RTOs, zero-downtime database failovers, and 99.92% platform uptime. Two-time Extra Mile Award recipient.

Skills

Reliability & Operations: Capacity Planning, Auto-Scaling (ECS, Redis/Valkey, OpenSearch), Disaster Recovery (IaC), Database Failover, Incident Response & RCA, Runbook Automation, On-Call, SLI/SLO

Containers & Orchestration: Docker, ECS (EC2 & Fargate), ECR, Kubernetes (personal), SOCI, Image Hardening, ARM/Graviton

Observability: CloudWatch Metrics/Logs/Alarms/Dashboards, Log Insights, Anomaly Detection, X-Ray, Prometheus & Grafana (personal), CloudTrail

Data & Pipelines: PostgreSQL CDC (Debezium), Amazon MSK (Kafka), AWS Glue, Redshift, S3 Data Lake, Schema Mapping

Cloud & Infra: AWS (EC2, Lambda, ALB, Route 53, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, OpenSearch, MSK, Glue, Redshift, CloudFront, Security Hub, GuardDuty), IaC (CDK, CloudFormation), Multi-AZ & Multi-Region

Security: CIS Benchmarks, WAF, Shield, ISO 27001, GDPR, DPDPA, OWASP Top 10, CSPM, SAST (Snyk), AWS Inspector, Pentesting

Languages: TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Node.js, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey/Redis, OpenSearch

Experience
Great LearningBangalore
Lead Infrastructure & Security Operations EngineerMay 2025 - Present
  • Led production DB failover drill with zero downtime; PostgreSQL auto-reconnect with only 2 min degraded perf.
  • Moved OpenSearch, Redshift, CloudFront to CDK IaC - infra fully recreatable in under 2 hours.
  • Automated OpenSearch backups to S3 - DR RTO from ~1 week to 30-40 min.
  • OpenSearch auto-scaling via Lambda/CloudWatch - cluster scaled 10x, 100% availability.
  • Redis to Valkey migration - ~20% cost savings, lower P99 latencies, auto-scaling enabled.
  • Built GL-CloudETL: Debezium + MSK + Glue pipeline replacing third-party vendor.
  • Built AWS Cloud Manager with Google SSO for one-click ECS deployments.
  • Dev onboarding from 3-4 days to 20-30 min. Android build time 30 min to 7 min.
  • Reduced Node.js image vulns by 25 CVEs. Adopted AWS Inspector for shift-left scanning.
  • Extra Mile Award (May 2025).
Great LearningBangalore
Senior Security Operations EngineerApr 2022 - May 2025
  • 99.92% platform uptime. Owned on-call, RCA, runbook creation.
  • CDK-based DR - full infra recreation in under 2 hours. Zero-downtime DB reconnection strategy.
  • Cut AWS spend 30% via ARM/Graviton across ECS, RDS, Redis, OpenSearch + autoscaling.
  • SOCI - 70% faster container startup. ECS build/deploy from 30+ min to under 10 min.
  • CloudWatch observability stack - metrics, anomaly detection, dashboards, Log Insights.
  • Full IaC migration (CDK) - VPC, IAM, RDS, Redis, ECS, WAF, S3, ALB, SQS, Transcoder.
  • Ruby on Rails 5.2 to 7.1, Ruby 2.5 to 3.3 - latency down 20-22%, scalability up 30%.
  • AWS Security score 64% to 98%. CIS Benchmark 100%. ISO 27001 certified.
  • Extra Mile Award (Sep 2023).
Great LearningBangalore
Security Operations EngineerFeb 2021 - May 2022
  • Pentesting, vuln assessments (OWASP Top 10, iOS/Android). WAF & CloudWatch. Phishing sims - risk down 35%.
Great LearningDelhi
Cyber Security InstructorSep 2019 - Feb 2021
  • Security training, curriculum development, lab environments.
Projects
Kubernetes Observability Home Lab github.com/mafiaguy

Kubernetes (Minikube/kind), Prometheus metrics + alerting, Grafana dashboards. Helm, kubectl, K8s networking.

Education
B.Tech, CS&E2017-2020

Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology, Delhi

Diploma, CS&E2013-2016

Government Polytechnic College, Mohali

Achievements

Extra Mile Award - Great Learning (Sep 2023, May 2025) for ISO certification, DevSecOps adoption, cost/reliability optimization.

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