Binaya Sharma
Development
Bagmati, Nepal
Skills
DevOps
Terraform
Grafana
Prometheus
Loki
Ansible
Shell Scripting
Python
GitHub Actions
Jenkins
AWS (Amazon Web Services)
Azure (Microsoft Azure)
Linux
DigitalOcean
GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
Docker
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Kubernetes
Git
About
Binaya an experienced DevOps Engineer with over 6 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD pipeline development. With expertise in AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and GitOps, he has led infrastructure modernization projects, optimized cloud security, and enhanced system observability. Binaya has successfully migrated cloud services, automated deployments, and mentored DevOps teams to streamline operational efficiency.
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Work Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer
CloudHero
May 2024 - Present
- Led infrastructure modernization by migrating services from GCP to AWS EKS with zero-downtime database migrations and seamless traffic routing via Cloudflare Load Balancer. Optimized resource utilization using AWS BottleRocket, Cluster Autoscaler, and Karpenter.
- Automated cloud infrastructure with Terraform (IaC), ensuring scalable, compliant, and reliable deployments across multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, Linode, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, OTC).
- Enhanced cloud security using AWS Security Hub, Inspector, and ECR scanning. Built Lambda functions to automate notifications (Slack) for ECR scan results and new Security Hub issues, streamlining vulnerability management.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines with GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and ArgoCD to automate deployments on Kubernetes using Helm charts for consistent, repeatable releases.
- Improved observability with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Loki, and CloudWatch, enabling system monitoring, log aggregation, and efficient troubleshooting.
- Managed Cloudflare services (Zero Trust, DNS proxies, certificates) to enhance performance and security across global applications.
Senior DevOps Engineer
LeapFrog Technology
December 2023 - February 2024
- Utilizing Infrastructure as a Code principle and tools such as Terraform to provision and maintain cloud resources programmatically, ensuring consistency and reproducibility.
- Facilitated the seamless transition to GitOps methodologies, integrating IaC principles alongside Terraform Cloud, and GithubActions.
- Integrating security-focused automation practices, including vulnerability scanning and compliance checks (tools such as trivy, synk, chekhov, sonarqube and infracost), into CI/CD pipelines to proactively identify and address security risks.
- Employing ECS and EKS for container orchestration, enabling scalable and resilient application deployments in distributed environments.
- Implemented the self-hosted Hashicorp vault with ability to handle the single regional failure in AWS.
- Identify and drive opportunities to improve automation for deployment, management, and tooling within projects.
- Mentor and share knowledge within the team and help in the continuous growth of junior team members.
Software Engineer
StackGuardian BV
May 2023 - November 2023
- Developing multi-cloud infrastructure solutions utilizing Terraform for AWS, Azure, and GCP services, demonstrating cross-platform expertise.
- Collaborating closely with the development team, enabling seamless integration of Python boto3 for AWS service interactions.
- Designing and implementing scalable log export solutions using Python SDKs, and fluentbit for AWS S3 and Azure Blob storage, enhancing data accessibility and storage efficiency.
- Coordinating efforts within the team, organizing and facilitating impact demo sessions to showcase project progress and gather feedback.
- Orchestrating the creation of robust and versatile infrastructure stacks using Terraform, ensuring efficient and consistent deployment across cloud providers.
- Documenting and PoC for integrating sg-cli with multiple CI/CD solutions such as Jenkins, GitlabCI, Github Actions, and Azure DevOps.
- Leading research on integration of pulumi, cloudformation and AWS CDK in the platform.
DevOps Engineer
Ekbana Solutions Pte. Ltd
April 2020 - August 2023
- Managed and maintained Linux servers (Ubuntu), ensuring smooth operations and optimal performance.
- Led and orchestrated the seamless adoption of GitOps practices, incorporating Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles, Jenkins Continuous Integration (CI), and ArgoCD Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines.
- Managed and orchestrated containerized applications using AWS EKS, Helm Charts as well as Docker Swarm.
- Implemented enhanced server monitoring, logging and alerting solutions using Prometheus-Grafana, Loki, Zabbix, ELK Stacks and CloudWatch.
- Implemented infrastructure improvements on a large scale using Terraform Cloud, and Space Lift, ensuring infrastructure consistency.
- Engineered and implemented a robust Jenkins security pipeline, integrating Synk, Zap, and SonarQube, ensuring the highest standards of code quality, vulnerability management, and security compliance.
- Leveraged Ansible as a powerful automation tool to streamline infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment.
- Led a team of four DevOps engineers, fostering collaboration and ensuring efficient project execution.
L2 Support and Monitoring
WorldLink Communications
January 2017 - May 2020
- Played a key role in maintaining and troubleshooting Huawei and Nokia Optical Line Terminals (OLTs), BRAS, and network switches, ensuring uninterrupted services.
- Utilized DNS, DHCP settings, and network diagnostic tools (NMAP, MTR, Ping) to troubleshoot network issues and optimize connectivity.
- Provided expert guidance and training to L1 Phone Support and branch teams, improving technical skills and issue resolution.
- Identified and escalated critical issues to the Network Operations Center (NOC), ensuring prompt resolution and system reliability.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to support network architecture maintenance and troubleshooting processes.
Education
Certifications
Certifications
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (002)
Tribhuvan University
Masters in International Relations and Diplomacy
January 2020 - December 2022
