Thiruvalluvar
Lingasamy Gounder
$ SRE • Platform • DevOps • Automation
Systems and reliability engineering professional with 19+ years of hands-on experience designing resilient cloud platforms, automated release engineering, and enterprise observability across AWS and Azure. Deep background in Kubernetes orchestration, Terraform/Ansible infrastructure automation, GitOps workflows, and production readiness.
01 // Profile Summary
Reliability Through Automation
Systems and reliability engineering professional with 19+ years of hands-on experience designing resilient cloud platforms, automated release engineering, and enterprise observability across AWS and Azure. Deep background in Kubernetes orchestration, Terraform/Ansible infrastructure automation, GitOps workflows, and production readiness. Proven track record in driving SRE culture, SLI/SLO frameworks, proactive incident management, and self-healing automation in Python and Go. Focused on eliminating operational toil, accelerating deployment velocity, and maximizing system uptime across mission-critical, multi-tenant environments.
02 // Core Competencies
Technical Skills & Expertise
Container Orchestration & Mesh
Architecting scalable multi-cluster Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, k3s), Istio Service Mesh for secure mTLS traffic routing, KEDA event-driven autoscaling, Docker containerization, and Helm chart releases.
Cloud & Platform Architecture
Enterprise cloud infrastructure across Amazon Web Services (EKS, VPC, EC2, S3, ECR, DynamoDB, Lambda, IAM) and Microsoft Azure (AKS, VMs, VNet) with robust high-availability and security controls.
IaC & Infrastructure Automation
Automating multi-cloud provisioning with Terraform and configuration management with Ansible. Deep expertise in Linux OS internals, Systemd tuning, and automated self-healing remediation to eliminate toil.
CI/CD & GitOps Delivery
Designing declarative continuous delivery workflows with ArgoCD, robust GitLab CI/CD and Jenkins pipelines, automated container promotion, and zero-downtime release strategies across environments.
Full-Stack Observability & SRE
Centralized telemetry with the LGTM Stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir), Grafana Alloy, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry (OTel), CloudWatch, SLI/SLO monitoring, and automated incident triage to drive low MTTR.
Programming & Data Systems
Engineering robust automation tooling and CLI systems in Python and Go (Golang - Gin, Cobra CLI), comprehensive Bash scripting, and scalable data integration across Redis, PostgreSQL (Pgvector), and SQLite.
03 // Career Architecture
Professional Journey
Independent Consulting
Site Reliability & DevOps Automation (Remote)- ▸ Monolith-to-Microservices EKS Migration: Architected and executed the migration of legacy monolithic applications from traditional hosting to microservices on AWS EKS, automating cloud provisioning with Terraform.
- ▸ GitOps & Platform Engineering: Built declarative delivery workflows using ArgoCD, GitLab CI, and Kubernetes, integrating Istio Service Mesh for secure traffic routing and KEDA for event-driven autoscaling.
- ▸ Full-Stack Observability & Reliability: Deployed a centralized LGTM Stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) with OpenTelemetry, setting up SLI/SLO monitoring and automated health-remediation scripts in Python/Go.
Saviynt
Principal Support Engineer (DevOps & SRE)- ▸ Unified Observability Platform: Deployed and managed an enterprise self-hosted LGTM Stack with Grafana Alloy, aggregating real-time telemetry across multi-cluster Kubernetes (EKS/AKS) and VM fleets.
- ▸ Workload Onboarding Automation: Built automated onboarding pipelines and standardized Grafana dashboards, streamlining telemetry collection and accelerating production issue triage.
- ▸ Incident & Reliability Engineering: Formulated actionable alerting heuristics and automated operational runbooks in Python and Bash, accelerating MTTR and cutting down manual support escalations.
Securonix
DevOps Technical Lead & Senior Reliability Engineer- ▸ Multitenant Upgrader: Architected and delivered an automated deployment orchestration platform that reduced upgrade downtime by 60%, cut operational effort by 80%, and achieved a 90% error-free upgrade rate.
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CommandTracker: Engineered an automated auditing and visibility tool for tracking privileged
sudo/suoperations across distributed production server fleets. - ▸ SRE & Production Excellence: Instituted structured incident post-mortems, SLI/SLO monitoring, and automated remediation workflows across engineering teams.
Thulir Solutions
DevOps Lead- ▸ DevOps Practice & Standardization: Established automated release workflows and Infrastructure as Code standards across application deployment cycles.
- ▸ Configuration Automation: Standardized server provisioning and environment configuration using Ansible, accelerating deployment execution by 60%.
- ▸ CI/CD Pipeline Architecture: Built automated build and artifact promotion pipelines using Jenkins and Docker, improving release consistency.
Senior Software Analyst (DevOps & Systems)
07/2019 – 12/2019Zenith System Solutions (Reliance Jio Project) | Mumbai, India
Engineered automated backend deployment and infrastructure maintenance routines for high-scale LTE telecom systems across Linux fleets, implementing health-checking and log-aggregation scripts in Bash & Python.
Senior System Engineer
04/2017 – 06/2019Mobiledin | Bangalore, India
Automated provisioning, storage management, and host networking across high-availability virtualized Linux environments with automated backup verification, disaster recovery, and patch management.
System Engineer
09/2009 – 03/2017Enterprise Security Solutions | Puducherry, India
Managed and automated enterprise network topologies, server infrastructure, firewall appliances, server hardening, access-control policies, and L2/L3 root-cause escalation troubleshooting.
Network & Systems Administrator
01/2008 – 04/2009Beaconsoft Software Systems | Puducherry, India
Managed LAN/WAN routing, subnetting, DHCP/DNS services, dynamic IP addressing, Active Directory environments, and automated workstation/server provisioning.
Senior Service & Systems Engineer
08/2007 – 01/2008Auro Enterprises | Puducherry, India
Diagnosed and resolved server cluster, network, hardware, and operating system issues in production and customer environments, delivering installation and technical support.
Academic Background & Education
MCA (Master of Computer Applications)
Tamil Nadu Open University
Distance Education / Lateral Entry
BCA (Bachelor of Computer Applications)
Tamil Nadu Open University
Distance Education / Lateral Entry
DCP (Diploma in Commercial Practice)
Motilal Nehru Govt Polytechnic
Full-Time | Puducherry
04 // Core Artifacts
Featured Engineering Projects
Monolith-to-Microservices EKS
Architected and executed complete migration from legacy monolithic hosting to microservices on AWS EKS, automating cloud provisioning with Terraform, Istio Service Mesh routing, and KEDA autoscaling.
Multitenant Upgrader
Automated deployment orchestration platform that reduced upgrade downtime by 60%, cut operational effort by 80%, and achieved a 90% error-free rate across distributed production server fleets.
Enterprise LGTM Stack
Deployed a centralized LGTM Stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) with Grafana Alloy and OpenTelemetry to aggregate logs, traces, and metrics across multi-cluster EKS/AKS and VM environments.
GitOps Continuous Delivery
Engineered declarative delivery workflows leveraging ArgoCD, GitLab CI/CD, and Kubernetes to synchronize application desired states, streamline releases, and enforce auditability.
CommandTracker Auditor
Engineered an automated auditing and visibility utility tracking privileged sudo/su operations across distributed production server fleets with real-time audit logs.
Self-Healing Automation Engine
Developed proactive incident remediation runbooks and automated health-recovery controllers in Python and Go, hooking into Prometheus alerts and Kubernetes APIs to cut MTTR.
05 // System Modules
Technical Skills Matrix
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