- FULL NAME
- Kannan Narayanasamy
- n.kannan200@gmail.com
- MOBILE NO.
- +91-9591977331
Platform-first DevOps leader with hands-on Kubernetes expertise and 12+ years of experience architecting and operating high-scale infrastructure and developer platforms. A certified CKA & CKAD, I bring a strong automation-first mindset to everything I do:
Drive systemic impact: Led CI/CD and reliability initiatives that accelerated deployment speeds by 60%, improved system uptime above 99.9%, and cut incident response time by 40%.
Deep technical expertise: Proficient in Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Prometheus, and GitOps. Designed and maintained platforms supporting millions of users, delivering robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure.
Collaborative leadership: Partnered across engineering and product teams to drive alignment on platform goals. Mentored 15+ engineers, established best practices around code reviews, documentation, and onboarding processes.
Passionate communicator: Regularly deliver talks, write technical articles, and lead workshops to share knowledge and promote DevOps culture and continuous learning within organizations.
I thrive on building resilient, automated infrastructure and developer-friendly platforms—and I'm eager to continue doing this in environments where engineering excellence, innovation, and teamwork are top priorities.
Nov 204 - Now
Lead DevOps Engineer- Led the system design of qubership‑envgene, a templated environment generator: architected the solution structure to automate reproducible Dev/Test/Prod environments with version-controlled inventory and encrypted secret handling
- Designed the integration architecture for qubership‑envgene with existing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI) and GitOps workflows, ensuring seamless provisioning and synchronization from Git to Kubernetes clusters
- Constructed multi-cloud Kubernetes clusters (AWS & GCP) infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, enabling scalable and consistent environment deployments across cloud providers
- Collaborated with delivery engineers to implement blue/green deployment strategies, rollback capabilities, and policies—contributing to a 45% reduction in deployment incidents
- Established security design patterns—including namespace-based isolation, RBAC, and integration with Vault/SSM for secrets—supporting zero critical vulnerabilities in deployments
- Guided DevOps team members through design reviews, architectural best practices, and GitOps principles to empower their work on tertiary automation components
- Contributed to platform governance frameworks (resource quotas, audit logging, policy-as-code), facilitating Netcracker’s broader cloud transformation strategy
Aug 2023 - Nov 2024
Senior Principal DevOps Consultant- Designed and implemented high-availability Kubernetes clusters with automated disaster recovery, achieving 99.95% system availability
- Built comprehensive observability platform with Prometheus, Grafana, and EFK stack, reducing MTTR by 40%
- Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, cutting deployment time by 65%
- Implemented security best practices across the CI/CD pipeline, resulting in zero critical vulnerabilities in production
- Led technical workshops for 20+ client engineers on Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies
May 2022 - July 2023
Senior Software Engineer- Architected and implemented scalable cloud infrastructure for a property data startup, focusing on reliability and cost-efficiency
- Established GitOps workflow with ArgoCD, reducing deployment cycles from days to hours
- Built cloud-native microservices using Quarkus and Kotlin, improving service response time by 45%
- Implemented infrastructure-as-code practices with Terraform, enabling complete environment provisioning in under 30 minutes
- Designed and implemented real-time data processing pipeline handling 5TB+ of property data daily
Sep 2020 - May 2022
Senior Software Engineer- Architected and implemented scalable cloud infrastructure for a property data startup, focusing on reliability and cost-efficiency
- Established GitOps workflow with JenkinsX, reducing deployment cycles from days to hours
- Built cloud-native microservices using Quarkus and Kotlin, improving service response time by 45%
- Implemented infrastructure-as-code practices with Terraform, enabling complete environment provisioning in under 30 minutes
- Designed and implemented efficient data processing pipeline for UK property market data, optimizing for startup budget constraints while maintaining data integrity
Nov 2018 - Sep 2020
Cloud Engineer- Led migration of 15+ applications from EC2 to EKS, improving resource utilization by 55%
- Implemented GitLab CI/CD pipelines that reduced build and deployment time by 70%
- Designed and implemented immutable infrastructure with Terraform, enabling complete environment recreation in under 45 minutes
- Built monitoring and alerting system that reduced MTTR from hours to minutes
- Automated routine operations with Ansible, saving Weekly 20+ hours of manual work weekly
June 2013 - Oct 2018
Java Microservice Developer- Built and maintained DevOps platform serving 500+ developers across India
- Implemented CI/CD automation that accelerated software delivery by 50%
- Designed and deployed service mesh architecture with Istio, improving service reliability by 35%
- Created comprehensive monitoring solution with Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty, reducing incident response time by 60%
- Developed and delivered technical training programs for cloud-native technologies to 500+ developers
Served as the System Analyst responsible for crafting the Low-Level Design (LLD) of qubership‑envgene, Netcracker's open-source environment templating platform.
- Designed detailed architectural components: CRD schema, templating engine modules, data flow for environment generation, and secret encryption layers.
- Established integration design patterns with GitOps pipelines, enabling seamless environment provisioning via Jenkins/GitLab CI alongside Terraform and Ansible.
- Defined secure processes for secret handling, Git-based auditability, and version-controlled environment definitions to ensure consistency and compliance.
- Co-developed and maintained GitHub Pages documentation, including architecture diagrams, LLD diagrams, installation guides, and usage workflows for developer teams.
Sole architect and developer of a Java-based Kubernetes Operator designed to auto-generate microservice scaffolding—including custom resource definitions (CRDs), Deployments, Services, and ConfigMaps—via a single custom resource.
- Developed all reconcile logic using the Kubernetes Operator SDK to dynamically handle microservice lifecycle operations in a production-like environment.
- Designed a declarative workflow, enabling developers to define microservice specs in a CR and instantly provision uniform infrastructure, significantly accelerating environment setup and ensuring consistency.
- Created comprehensive GitHub Pages documentation, featuring architectural diagrams, CRD examples, installation instructions, and usage guides to improve developer adoption and support.
- Demonstrates full ownership of platform tool development, end-to-end architecture, coding, and documentation, showcasing deep Kubernetes-native and Java platform engineering skills.
2013 - 2015 (Masters of Business Administration)
Bharathidasan University
Major: Computer Systems & HR2010 - 2013 (BTech)
SASTRA University
Major: Computer Science & EngineeringGPA
8.08
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