Akul Gopal Devali

Refactoring a production release pipeline on AWS (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, EventBridge, Lambda), adding reliable change detection across a large monorepo so redundant builds are eliminated and pipeline run times drop. Built an automated build-notification system with Lambda, S3, and Slack that surfaces build status, artifacts, and failures in real time, plus a GitHub Actions CRON workflow for nightly dev builds to catch regressions early.

On the infrastructure side: extended the container build stage to dual-push Docker images to Docker Hub and Amazon ECR via configurable flags, migrating existing images with skopeo while preserving tags and digests. Provisioning production deployment servers end to end — BIOS PXE network boot, stress validation, automated Rocky Linux 9 installs via MAAS — then post-provisioning config across the fleet with Ansible, deploying Grafana, Loki, and supporting services over a private network.

Built a Kubernetes-based distributed replay platform from scratch — cluster topology, network architecture, deployment automation. Enabled 1:1 user-to-pod isolation through carefully crafted Services and Ingress routing so every concurrent session got its own sandboxed environment, with the full provisioning lifecycle automated through Jenkins.

The platform scaled to 20,000 concurrent replay sessions with dynamic resource orchestration and held 99.999% availability under sustained simulation workloads across Akamai and AWS EKS clusters.

Made 15+ microservices more reliable and cost-efficient: built an internal reliability platform that automated capacity benchmarking and surfaced performance trends before they became incidents. Cut AWS compute spend by 25% through instance right-sizing and shifting 60% of workloads to spot instances with smart scheduling.

Built a k6 load-testing framework wired into Jenkins CI/CD as a performance quality gate — a build failing load tests in staging didn't ship, full stop. Cut manual testing effort by 40% and closed the loop with a Grafana + Prometheus observability stack for real-time health across every environment.