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Puja Chowdhury - Cloud/DevSecOps Engineer

Hi, I'm Puja Chowdhury

DevSecOps Engineer

Architecting secure DevOps & Multi Cloud solutions, automating workflows, and driving digital transformation through innovative DevOps practices

Currently exploring AI & MLOps initiatives to enhance intelligent automation

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The Engineer

About Me

Puja Chowdhury

Cloud/DevSecOps Engineer

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I'm a Cloud/DevSecOps Engineer who doesn't just build infrastructure—I architect solutions that become competitive advantages. With hands-on expertise across AWS, Azure, and GCP, I've spent my career turning operational chaos into streamlined, secure, automated ecosystems.

What I've delivered: From designing fault-tolerant architectures serving millions with 99.99% uptime, to implementing zero-downtime CI/CD pipelines that collapsed release cycles from weeks to hours—I bring a proven track record of measurable impact. My DevSecOps implementations have reduced deployment times by 70% while embedding security at every layer, not as an afterthought, but as a foundational principle.

What I bring to your team: A solutions-first mindset backed by deep technical expertise. Whether it's containerizing legacy applications with Kubernetes, implementing Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform, or building comprehensive observability frameworks—I deliver systems that are resilient, scalable, and maintainable. I bridge the gap between development velocity and operational excellence, ensuring your team can ship faster without compromising security or stability.

Where I'm headed: Currently expanding into AI/MLOps, I'm pioneering the integration of intelligent automation into DevOps workflows—predictive scaling, anomaly detection, and ML-driven incident response. I believe the future of operations is intelligent, proactive, and self-healing, and I'm building that future now.

The Journey

Professional Experience

Building scalable solutions across leading organizations

DevSecOps Engineer

Current
ABS Wavesight Spring, TX Jan 2024 – Present
  • Architecting secure DevOps pipelines integrating automated security scanning and compliance checks
  • Implementing infrastructure-as-code solutions with Terraform and CloudFormation
  • Driving containerization initiatives using Docker and Kubernetes for microservices architecture
  • Designed disaster recovery configurations across environments using both active-active and active-passive failover strategies on Azure
  • Establishing monitoring and observability frameworks with ELK stack and Prometheus

SRE/DevOps Engineer

Sage Intacct San Jose, CA April 2022 – Nov 2023
  • Maintained 99.9% uptime for critical financial SaaS platform serving enterprise clients
  • Automated incident response workflows reducing MTTR by 60%
  • Designed and implemented multi-region disaster recovery solutions
  • Led performance optimization initiatives improving application response time by 45%

Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Humana Louisville, KY August 2021 – April 2022
  • Migrated legacy healthcare applications to AWS cloud infrastructure
  • Built CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab reducing deployment time by 70%
  • Implemented security best practices ensuring HIPAA compliance
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable cloud solutions
The Foundation

Education

Academic foundation driving technical excellence

Master of Science

Business Analytics — Specialization in AI/ML

University of Louisville

College of Business

GPA: 3.98
Distinction Award — Top 1%
State Level International Fashion Competition Participant

Completed advanced coursework across core AI, analytics, and cloud areas, including Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Statistics, Mathematics, Pipeline Insights, Marketing Analytics, Cloud Computing, Python, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Built strong hands-on experience in developing end-to-end ML pipelines, applying analytical methods to real business problems, and deploying scalable AI solutions on cloud platforms.

Graduate Degree

Bachelor of Technology

Computer Science Engineering

ICFAI University

GPA: 3.82
Graduated with Distinction
College Badminton Champion

Completed a four-year B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering with a strong foundation in core computing and AI. Studied key subjects including Statistics, Linear Algebra, Image Processing, Machine Learning, Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), Data Structures, Algorithms, and Cloud Computing. Gained hands-on experience building ML models, implementing image processing techniques, writing clean and modular Python/OOP code, and applying mathematical concepts to real-world computing problems.

Undergraduate Degree
The Credentials

Certifications

Professional credentials validating my expertise

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

Exam AZ-400

Microsoft Certified

Harness CD & GitOps

Certified Continuous Delivery & GitOps Developer

Harness Certified

Harness CI Administrator

Certified Continuous Integration Administrator

Harness Certified

IBM Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing Practitioner Certificate

IBM Certified

IBM Design Thinking

Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner

IBM Certified

SAS Certification

College of Business

SAS Certified
The Impact

Key Projects & Achievements

Transforming infrastructure and accelerating delivery through innovative DevOps solutions

ABS Wavesight

AI-Powered Documentation Platform

Architected end-to-end Azure cloud solution with comprehensive CI/CD automation. Designed and deployed centralized documentation portal serving as single source of truth for entire engineering organization. Integrated LLM-powered chatbot providing intelligent AI assistance for instant knowledge retrieval.

Organization-Wide Impact AI Assistant Integration
Azure LLM/AI CI/CD Documentation Portal

Blue-Green Deployment Architecture

Designed and implemented sophisticated Blue-Green deployment strategy for Azure Function Apps utilizing slot mechanisms, achieving zero-downtime deployments with instant rollback capabilities. Eliminated production risk while maintaining continuous availability.

Zero Downtime Instant Rollback
Azure Functions Blue-Green Deployment Deployment Slots

Disaster Recovery Architecture

Designed and implemented resilient disaster recovery configurations across critical workloads with both active-active and active-passive patterns on Azure. Defined failover and failback playbooks aligned with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices to improve business continuity and reduce recovery risk.

Business Continuity Validated Failover Patterns
Azure Disaster Recovery Active-Active Active-Passive

Intelligent QA Dashboard

Developed custom dashboard UI providing QA teams real-time visibility into multi-environment test results with commit-level traceability. Implemented intelligent deployment gates that automatically prevent promotion of failed builds, reducing production defects by enabling data-driven deployment decisions.

Reduced Defects Automated Gates
Custom UI Test Automation Quality Gates DevOps Intelligence
In Progress

Legacy to AKS Modernization

Leading architecture and design for comprehensive migration initiative transforming legacy monolithic applications to containerized microservices on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Defining migration strategy, modernization roadmap, and orchestration patterns for seamless cloud-native transformation.

Strategic Initiative Microservices Architecture
AKS Kubernetes Containerization Migration Strategy

Sage Intacct

Jenkins to Azure DevOps Migration

Spearheaded enterprise-wide migration from Jenkins to Azure DevOps Pipelines, establishing reusable shared libraries and standardized templates. Enabled organization-wide consistency, reduced pipeline development time, and improved maintainability across all teams.

Enterprise-Wide Adoption Reusable Templates
Azure DevOps Jenkins Migration Shared Libraries CI/CD Modernization

Legacy Application Containerization

Modernized multiple legacy applications through containerization, transforming traditional deployments into portable, scalable container-based solutions. Improved deployment consistency, resource utilization, and enabled cloud-native operational patterns.

Improved Performance Cloud-Ready
Docker Containerization Application Modernization

Humana

CloudFormation to Terraform Migration

Led complete migration of CloudFormation templates to modular Terraform infrastructure, implementing secure branching strategies and GitOps workflows. Enhanced infrastructure reproducibility, version control, and established security best practices across cloud provisioning.

Enhanced Security Modular Architecture
Terraform CloudFormation Migration Infrastructure as Code GitOps
The Craft

Technical Skills

Comprehensive DevOps, Cloud & Development expertise

Cloud Platforms

AWS Azure

CI/CD

Azure DevOps Argo CD Jenkins GitHub Actions Harness

Containerization & Orchestration

Docker Kubernetes EKS AKS ECS

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Terraform CloudFormation ARM Templates

Scripting & Programming

Python Groovy Bash PowerShell JavaScript HTML Java YAML Go

Logging & Monitoring

Splunk CloudWatch Datadog Prometheus Grafana ELK

Databases

MySQL PostgreSQL MongoDB Oracle DB 10g DynamoDB RDS Cassandra

Version Control

Git GitHub Bitbucket Azure Repos GitLab

Configuration Management

Ansible Chef

Build Tools

Maven ANT Gradle .NET

Package Management

Nexus JFrog Artifactory

Web & Application Servers

WebLogic WebSphere Apache Tomcat JBOSS

Code Analysis & Scanning

SonarQube Veracode Nexus IQ JFrog Xray CheckOV TFLint TFSec

Virtualization

VMWare

Issue Tracking

JIRA Remedy ADO

AI & MLOps

Machine Learning MLOps Pipelines Model Deployment AI Automation
The Full Picture

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