Vedant Gaidhane
Executive – Cloud Infrastructure · Harrier Information Systems

Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer with 1.5+ years architecting and operating production-grade AWS environments for clients in financial services, investment management, and capital markets. Sole cloud engineer entrusted with end-to-end ownership of provisioning, CI/CD, security, observability, and FinOps across 8+ concurrent client accounts.

AWS CloudDevSecOpsFinOpsFinancial ServicesTerraformKubernetes

What I Do

FinOps & Cost Engineering
  • 50–85% AWS cost reductions across client portfolios
  • Right-sizing, EC2 scheduling via EventBridge + Lambda
  • Reserved Instance & Savings Plan procurement
  • Orphaned resource remediation & billing transparency
DevSecOps Pipeline Architecture
  • Jenkins CI/CD with shift-left security gates
  • Gitleaks · SonarQube · Trivy · AWS Secrets Manager
  • Zero-downtime blue-green deployments
  • 80% faster release cycles for trading platforms
Cloud Security & Compliance
  • GuardDuty · Inspector · WAF · Shield · Security Hub
  • Config · CloudTrail · KMS · IAM least-privilege
  • Plerion CNAPP for continuous posture management
  • SCP guardrails & Security Group hardening
Infrastructure as Code
  • Reusable parameterised Terraform modules
  • AWS CloudFormation & Ansible playbooks
  • Version-controlled infra for auditability & rollback
  • Rapid dev/staging/prod environment provisioning
Observability & Incident Response
  • Prometheus + Grafana with custom dashboards
  • CloudWatch Logs, CloudTrail & Uptime Kuma
  • PagerDuty-style alerting for downtime & latency
  • Automated SSL expiry detection via Jenkins + Python
Containerised Deployments
  • Multi-app Docker isolation on single EC2
  • Automated image builds to private ECR registries
  • Kubernetes orchestration for staging environments
  • Container CVE scanning with Trivy
Hybrid Cloud & Networking
  • Multi-node on-prem Proxmox virtualisation cluster
  • AWS Site-to-Site VPN for hybrid connectivity
  • Secure VPC design: public/private subnets, NAT, IGW
  • Route 53 DNS management & traffic routing
Enterprise GitLab CE & Version Control
  • Self-hosted GitLab CE — eliminating VCS licensing costs
  • Bitbucket → GitLab migration with full commit history
  • TLS termination, SMTP relay, S3 backup (30-day retention)
  • Integrated with Jenkins & SonarQube for DevSecOps
Web Server & Application Management
  • Nginx, Apache, Tomcat, IIS configuration
  • Reverse proxies, SSL/TLS & caching layers
  • ALB + WAF with OWASP rule sets
  • Load testing & performance tuning
Backup & Disaster Recovery
  • Automated EBS snapshot lifecycle policies
  • Cross-region S3 replication for DR
  • AWS Backup with RTO/RPO compliance testing
  • Forensic incident analysis & secure recovery
Serverless & CDN
  • S3 + CloudFront static hosting with WAF
  • Lambda functions for cost-saving automation
  • Near-zero hosting cost for static workloads
  • ACM SSL, Route 53, SES email delivery
AWS Marketplace & Cloud-as-a-Service
  • Hardened AMI packaging for Marketplace listing
  • Cloud-as-a-Service delivery framework design
  • Standardised operational blueprints & runbooks
  • Positioning Harrier as a cloud solutions provider

Tech Stack

AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Jenkins
Terraform
Ansible
Prometheus
Grafana
GitLab
Nginx
Python
PostgreSQL
Linux

Tools I Use

Ubuntu
VS Code
GitHub
GitLab
Bash
Postman
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Bachelor of Technology – Electronics Engineering
Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering (YCCE), Nagpur
2020 – 2024  ·  CGPA: 7.76