Available for remote DevOps roles

Building cloud platforms teams can rely on

I'm Abhishek Sonwal, a Senior DevOps Engineer with 5+ years helping companies automate AWS infrastructure, ship faster with CI/CD, and run Kubernetes in production with confidence.

About

Engineering with clarity and care

Abhishek Sonwal is a Senior DevOps Engineer with a Master's in Computer Applications and more than five years helping teams release software safely, keep systems online, and reduce operational toil.

Official profiles: Abhishek Sonwal on LinkedIn, GitHub, Fiverr.

My work centers on infrastructure as code, automated pipelines, and observability that people actually use. When environments are repeatable and deployments are boring, engineering teams can focus on what matters: building products customers love.

From multi-region Kubernetes on AWS to DevSecOps gates in CI/CD, I design systems that match business goals: speed, resilience, and security without trade-offs.

Impact highlights

99.95%
Uptime maintained
25%
Fewer vulnerabilities
40%
Faster IaC delivery
70%
Manual work automated
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA & CKAD)
Skills

What I work with

Services

How I can help your team

I help teams ship faster on AWS with automated pipelines, hardened security, production-grade Kubernetes, and reliable website development and hosting. Over 5 years, clients have seen 40% faster infrastructure delivery, 99.95% uptime, and 25% fewer security findings.

40% faster IaC delivery 99.95% uptime targets 25% fewer vulnerabilities
Consulting

DevOps consulting and platform support

Freelance support for SaaS teams, ERPNext and Frappe deployments, WordPress, Joomla, and Shopify platforms.

Available since August 2024
Experience

Where I've worked

Aug 2024 – Present Remote

Freelancer & DevOps Consultant

Independent
  • Led Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) migration of microservices, enabling independent service deployments, improving scalability, and reducing cross-team release dependencies.
  • Delivered end-to-end AWS infrastructure for 6+ client environments using Terraform, reducing infrastructure provisioning time from days to under 2 hours.
  • Designed highly available AWS architectures using ALB, Auto Scaling Groups, Route 53, CloudFront, and RDS Multi-AZ to improve application resilience.
  • Designed and implemented multi-stage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins, reducing release cycles by 40% while eliminating manual deployment errors.
  • Integrated DevSecOps controls including Trivy, SonarQube, and secret scanning into CI/CD pipelines, maintaining zero critical vulnerabilities in production deployments.
  • Implemented centralized observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack, reducing incident detection and resolution time by 60%.
Feb 2020 – Jul 2024 Ahmedabad, India

Growth at Universal Software

Universal Software

Sr. DevOps Engineer

Feb 2023 – Jul 2024
  • Architected and managed highly available AWS infrastructure for diverse production workloads, including ERP systems, web applications, and backend services, consistently achieving a 99.9% uptime SLA.
  • Standardized application environments across development, QA, and production using Docker, improving deployment consistency and reducing configuration drift.
  • Translated client infrastructure requirements into automated DevOps workflows, reducing provisioning effort by 50%.
  • Implemented Prometheus and Grafana monitoring with proactive alerting, reducing Mean Time to Detect by 35%.
  • Collaborated with development teams to optimize CI/CD pipelines, reducing integration failures by 25% through branch protection strategies and automated quality gates.
  • Deployed, configured, and maintained ERPNext applications on the Frappe framework, delivering client-specific customizations and reliable production support.

DevOps & Technical Support Engineer

Feb 2020 – Jan 2023
  • Managed highly available AWS infrastructure across EC2, RDS, VPC, Route 53, Auto Scaling, and S3, maintaining 99.9%+ production availability.
  • Designed and implemented Jenkins CI/CD pipelines from scratch, reducing release cycles from weeks to same-day deployments.
  • Containerized legacy applications using Docker, reducing environment setup time by 70% and eliminating environment-specific deployment issues.
  • Integrated SonarQube and Trivy security gates into CI pipelines, identifying and resolving more than 100 vulnerabilities before production releases.
  • Developed Bash and Python automation scripts, saving more than 8 hours of manual operational effort each week.
Oct 2019 – Jan 2020 Ahmedabad, India

AWS & Linux Administrator

High Sky IT Solution Pvt. Ltd.
  • Managed AWS and Linux systems (Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL) to keep business-critical services highly available.
  • Automated provisioning and deployments with Jenkins CI/CD, reducing manual effort by 60%.
  • Built Bash/Python automation for monitoring and ops tasks, saving about 5 hours per week.
Jun 2018 – Jul 2019 Abu Road, Rajasthan

Lecturer – Computer Science

Adarsh College of Professional Studies
  • Delivered undergraduate courses in Programming, Databases, Data Structures, and System Design.
  • Taught programming and systems to 60+ undergrad students through theory + hands-on labs.
  • Mentored students in C, C++, Web Development, and Database Management Systems, improving student performance.
  • Developed communication and mentorship skills now used to document infrastructure and onboard engineers.
Apr 2017 – Oct 2017 Ajmer, Rajasthan

Salesforce Intern

iBirds Software Services Pvt. Ltd.
  • Developed CRM workflow rules, triggers, validation rules, Apex controllers, and custom visualforce templates.
  • Structured Scheduled Apex batch automation pipelines, expediting data cleanup tasks on the Salesforce backend.
  • Worked with Salesforce CRM modules including Accounts, Leads, Opportunities, and Cases.
  • Built sandbox configurations validating operational Leads and Accounts tracking cycles for client previews.
Education

Academic background

2014 – 2017

Master of Computer Applications (MCA)

Lachoo Memorial College of Science & Technology, Jodhpur
2011 – 2014

Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)

Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology And Sciences
Projects

Selected work

Contact

Let's talk about your project

Whether you need AWS infrastructure, a CI/CD overhaul, or ongoing DevOps support, I'd like to hear what you're building. Reach out by email, phone, or the form — I typically respond within one business day.

Location Abu Road, Rajasthan, India

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