Associate DevOps Engineer • Cloud & Systems
Jay Patel
I design and automate cloud infrastructure with a focus on reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency — treating cloud platforms as systems, not black boxes.
With an ICT engineering background, my interests extend into operating systems, networking, automation, and infrastructure behavior. I enjoy understanding how systems scale, fail, recover, and evolve under real-world constraints.
Experience
Real-World Engineering Work
Hands-on experience working with production cloud infrastructure, deployment systems, CI/CD automation, and AWS operational workflows.
Associate DevOps Engineer
Wonderlend Hubs Pvt. Ltd.
Internship: Feb 2025 – Dec 2025 · Full-time Role: Jan 2026 – Present
Engineering Highlights
- Designed and implemented a JIRA-integrated IAM automation system using Python and boto3 for automated AWS user provisioning workflows.
- Built secure credential delivery workflows using AWS SES, Slack notifications, enforced password resets, and MFA-ready onboarding.
- Supported staging and production deployments across AWS-based microservices while troubleshooting CI/CD failures, IAM permission issues, and infrastructure misconfigurations.
- Collaborated with development teams to debug deployment and infrastructure issues, gaining exposure to real-world operational workflows and cloud reliability engineering.
Tech Stack
Impact
Portfolio
Infrastructure & DevOps Projects
Projects focused on cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, CI/CD systems, reliability engineering, and scalable AWS architectures.
Automated Blue-Green Deployment Platform
Designed and implemented a production-style blue-green deployment platform on AWS ECS Fargate using Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, and ALB-based traffic switching.
Engineering Highlights
- Achieved near zero-downtime deployments
- Implemented instant rollback using ALB listener switching
- Built JSON-driven Terraform infrastructure
- Validated autoscaling and deployment stability
Tech Stack
Impact
DocVault — Secure Document Management Platform
Built a cloud-native document management platform with secure uploads, automated workflows, and AWS-integrated backend services focused on reliability and scalability.
Engineering Highlights
- Implemented secure document upload workflows
- Integrated AWS cloud storage and APIs
- Designed scalable backend architecture
- Focused on operational reliability and security
Tech Stack
Impact
Resurge Net — Predictive Infrastructure Scaling
Developed an intelligent cloud scaling and infrastructure optimization platform using predictive analytics, workload forecasting, and automated scaling strategies.
Engineering Highlights
- Built predictive infrastructure scaling workflows
- Implemented workload demand forecasting logic
- Focused on SLA-aware autoscaling decisions
- Designed cloud-native monitoring and optimization architecture
Tech Stack
Impact
Writing
Writing & Engineering Notes
I write about cloud infrastructure, DevOps systems, deployment engineering, and lessons learned while building production-style automation workflows.
Upcoming
More Engineering Writing Coming Soon
I’m currently working on deeper technical write-ups around infrastructure automation, deployment systems, AWS governance tooling, and scalable CI/CD workflows.
Skills
Skills & Technical Focus
My technical focus is shaped by hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, deployment systems, automation workflows, and operational engineering practices.
Cloud & Infrastructure
DevOps & Automation
Backend & Cloud Applications
Systems & ICT Foundations
Programming & Tooling
About
How I Think as an Engineer
I approach cloud engineering from a systems perspective — focusing not just on deployment, but on how infrastructure behaves under scale, failure, and operational complexity.
I’m an Associate DevOps Engineer with a strong interest in understanding cloud systems beyond surface-level abstractions. Rather than treating infrastructure platforms as black boxes, I focus on how systems interact, scale, fail, and recover.
Alongside my professional work, I’m pursuing an ICT engineering degree where my background in operating systems, computer networks, and digital logic influences how I approach modern cloud engineering and deployment systems.
Through projects like DocVault, predictive scaling systems, and AWS automation tooling, I’ve explored how infrastructure design, automation, and observability affect reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
I also enjoy games, which heavily influence how I think about systems. Resource allocation, optimization under constraints, and strategic decision-making in games closely parallel infrastructure scaling, autoscaling, and cloud operations.
My long-term goal is to grow into a cloud and platform engineer who deeply understands why systems behave the way they do — not just how to deploy them.
Current Technical Interests
Systems Thinking
I focus on understanding how infrastructure components interact, scale, fail, and recover under real-world operational conditions.
Cloud Infrastructure
My work centers around AWS infrastructure, deployment automation, CI/CD workflows, and cloud-native operational engineering.
Engineering Foundations
My ICT background in operating systems, computer networks, and digital logic shapes how I approach cloud systems and infrastructure behavior.
Reliability & Automation
I’m deeply interested in observability, infrastructure reliability, automation systems, and scalable deployment workflows.
Contact
Let’s Connect
Whether it’s cloud infrastructure, DevOps engineering, automation systems, or collaborative opportunities — feel free to reach out.
Open to Engineering Opportunities & Collaboration
I’m interested in cloud infrastructure, DevOps engineering, platform automation, and systems-focused software engineering work. I also enjoy discussing cloud architecture, infrastructure reliability, and deployment systems.
Current Focus
Availability
Open to DevOps, cloud engineering, platform engineering, and infrastructure-focused opportunities.