Vedant Gaidhane
Cloud & DevOps Engineer · AWS · FinOps & Cloud Cost Optimization
Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 1.9+ years of hands-on experience building, managing, and optimizing AWS infrastructure across production and internal environments. Experienced in infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, automation, security, monitoring, troubleshooting, and improving day-to-day cloud operations — with a strong focus on FinOps and cloud cost optimization, identifying waste, improving utilization, and increasing cost visibility.
AWS CloudAzureFinOpsDevSecOpsTerraformKubernetes
What I Do
FinOps & Cost Optimization
- Application-level cost attribution & tagging for $1.2M+ monthly AWS spend
- Cost Explorer, CUR, Cost Categories & Cost Optimization Hub
- Right-sizing, Compute Optimizer & workload scheduling
- Savings Plans & Reserved Instance procurement
Cloud Infrastructure Engineering
- AWS: EC2, RDS, S3, ECS, EKS, Lambda, VPC, ALB, CloudFront
- Azure: Virtual Machines, App Service, Blob Storage, VNet, AD
- Server-based & serverless production architectures
- Secure, scalable, audit-ready infrastructure lifecycle
CI/CD & DevSecOps Automation
- Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions & Azure DevOps
- SonarQube · Trivy · Gitleaks · AWS Secrets Manager
- Automated failure handling, rollback & alerting
- Repeatable, security-gated deployment workflows
Infrastructure as Code
- Reusable Terraform & Terragrunt modules
- AWS CloudFormation & Ansible playbooks
- Bash & Python automation scripting
- Version-controlled infra for auditability & rollback
Observability & Monitoring
- Prometheus + Grafana across Linux & Windows servers
- Node Exporter & Windows Exporter with Alertmanager
- AWS CloudWatch + SNS endpoint availability monitoring
- Datadog & CloudTrail for centralized visibility
Cloud Security & Compliance
- GuardDuty · Inspector · WAF · Shield · Security Hub
- Config · CloudTrail · AWS KMS
- IAM policies & permission boundaries
- Azure Key Vault for secrets management
Databases & Data Platforms
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, TimescaleDB
- AWS RDS & Aurora, Redshift
- Azure Cosmos DB
- Zero-downtime database migrations
AI-Assisted DevOps
- ChatGPT, Claude & GitHub Copilot in the dev workflow
- AWS Q Developer & AWS FinOps Agent
- GitHub MCP for AI-driven tooling
- AI-assisted infrastructure automation & troubleshooting
Hybrid Cloud & Networking
- Proxmox VE on-prem virtualisation
- Hybrid connectivity between on-prem and AWS
- Secure VPC design: public/private subnets, NAT, IGW
- Route 53 DNS management & traffic routing
Web Servers & Operating Systems
- Nginx, Apache, Tomcat, IIS
- Linux (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux) & Windows Server
- Reverse proxies, SSL/TLS & caching layers
- ALB + WAF with managed rule sets
Version Control & Collaboration
- Git, GitHub, GitLab & Bitbucket
- Self-hosted GitLab CE platform administration
- Branch-based CI/CD trigger workflows
- GitHub Codespaces for cloud-based development
Tech Stack
Tools I Use
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Bachelor of Technology – Electronics Engineering
Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering (YCCE), Nagpur
2020 – 2024 · CGPA: 7.76