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Alex
Mercer.

// Senior DevOps Engineer
// 6+ years shipping infrastructure
// at the speed of product

I build the pipelines that let teams deploy fearlessly — Kubernetes orchestration, GitOps workflows, and observability stacks that actually tell you the truth.

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alex@dev ~ whoami
alex@dev ~ cat profile.json
{
  "name": "Alex Mercer",
  "role": "Senior DevOps Engineer",
  "location": "Bangalore, India",
  "exp_years": 6,
  "cloud": ["AWS", "GCP"],
  "certs": ["CKA", "AWS-SAA"],
  "open_to": "remote / hybrid"
}
alex@dev ~
6+ Years Exp.
40+ Projects
99.9% Uptime SLA
01 / Expertise

What I work
with.

☸️
Container Orchestration
Designing production-grade Kubernetes clusters, Helm chart management, and multi-environment deployments.
Kubernetes Helm Docker ArgoCD
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CI/CD Pipelines
End-to-end automation from code commit to production — with rollback, canary deploys and zero downtime.
GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI
☁️
Cloud Infrastructure
Multi-region cloud architecture on AWS and GCP, cost optimization, and FinOps practices.
AWS GCP Terraform Pulumi
📈
Observability
Full-stack monitoring, distributed tracing, and alerting — from infra metrics to user-facing SLOs.
Prometheus Grafana Datadog OpenTelemetry
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Security & Compliance
Shift-left security, secrets management, RBAC policies and compliance automation in regulated environments.
Vault OPA Trivy SOPS
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Scripting & Automation
Infrastructure automation, internal tooling, and workflow scripts that eliminate toil at scale.
Python Bash Go Ansible
02 / Timeline

Where I've
been.

2022 — Present
COMPLYTEC
Senior DevOps Engineer
Led cloud infrastructure for a compliance SaaS platform serving 300+ financial firms across 12 countries.
  • Migrated 80+ microservices to Kubernetes, reducing infra costs by 35%
  • Built GitOps workflows with ArgoCD, cutting deploy frequency from weekly to 20× per day
  • Achieved SOC 2 Type II certification through automated compliance tooling
  • Reduced MTTR from 45 min to under 8 min via improved observability stack
2020 — 2022
INFRA.IO
DevOps Engineer
Core platform team building shared infrastructure services for a 200-person product org.
  • Designed self-service developer platform used by 15+ product teams
  • Implemented multi-region AWS infrastructure using Terraform modules
  • Reduced CI build times by 60% through parallelization and smart caching
2018 — 2020
CLOUDWRKS
Systems Engineer
Infrastructure and automation work for a cloud consulting firm serving mid-market clients.
  • Automated server provisioning across 50+ client environments with Ansible
  • Designed on-prem to AWS lift-and-shift for 3 enterprise clients
03 / Work

Things I've
shipped.

01
Platform Engineering
Internal Developer Platform
A self-service portal for engineers to provision environments, manage secrets, and view deployment history — built on Backstage and Terraform Cloud.
Backstage Terraform GitHub Actions Vault
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02
Cost Optimization
Cloud FinOps Automation
Automated rightsizing engine using AWS Cost Explorer APIs and ML-based recommendations. Saved $180K/year in infra costs across 3 environments.
Python AWS Lambda Cost Explorer API
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03
Security
Zero-Trust K8s Cluster
Production Kubernetes cluster with mTLS between all services via Istio, OPA policy enforcement, and automated secret rotation using Vault agent injector.
Kubernetes Istio OPA Vault
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04
Observability
Unified Observability Stack
Full-stack observability for 80+ microservices — metrics, logs, traces, and alerts in one Grafana-first platform with custom SLO dashboards per team.
Prometheus Loki Tempo Grafana
View case study →
04 / Connect

Let's build
something solid.

Open to Senior DevOps / Platform Engineering roles.
Remote-first. Bangalore or Kochi preferred.

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Email
alex@example.com
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LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/alexmercer
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GitHub
github.com/alexmercer
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