Manish Kumar

Senior Platform Engineer | AWS & Kubernetes Expert

kumar.maanish97@gmail.com (+49) 17665746584 Nürnberg, Germany

About Me

Senior Platform Engineer with over 6 years of experience in AWS and Kubernetes. Expert in building "Golden Path" platforms and self-service infrastructure using Crossplane to empower developer autonomy. Proven track record in standardizing CI/CD and optimizing cloud costs.

AWS Kubernetes Terraform Crossplane GitLab CI/CD Istio HashiCorp Vault Go Python

Professional Experience

Senior Platform Engineer - Tradebyte 04/2023 - Present (Germany)
  • Led the design of a Golden Path Platform, onboarding 30+ applications and standardizing organization-wide deployments.
  • Implemented Karpenter for intelligent EKS node scheduling, reducing compute costs by 30%.
  • Architected centralized secret management using HashiCorp Vault on AWS EKS.
  • Automated self-service infrastructure using Crossplane, allowing developers to provision AWS resources via Helm.
DevOps Engineer - Philips 08/2021 - 03/2023 (India)
  • Automated microservices deployments using Terraform and Cloud Foundry for "one-click" releases.
  • Containerized build environments to remove reliance on specific VMs, increasing pipeline resilience.
  • Set up comprehensive monitoring and real-time alerting using Grafana, Prometheus, and Nagios.

Education

B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering 2015 - 2019

Cochin University of Science and Technology, India