Kartikey Tripathi
Cloud & DevOps Engineer
Cloud and DevOps Engineer with 6.5+ years of experience in AWS, containerization, and cloud-native architectures. Passionate about automation, performance tuning, and helping organizations modernize with EKS, ECS, and microservices.
Professional Journey
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloud Engineer – Containers
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Working with enterprise customers on containerized workloads, helping them design and operate scalable cloud-native architectures on AWS.
- Support enterprise customers running production workloads on Amazon EKS, ECS, and ECR
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex Kubernetes and container orchestration issues in production environments
- Guide customers through container migration strategies and best-practice architecture reviews
- Collaborate with internal service teams to escalate and resolve platform-level issues
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloud Database Engineer
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Provided technical support and guidance to enterprise customers on AWS managed database services, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Supported customers on RDS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server), Aurora, and DMS across complex production setups
- Diagnosed and resolved critical database incidents including replication failures, performance degradation, and connectivity issues
- Authored and published an AWS Knowledge Center article and YouTube video on securely connecting to private RDS instances via EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint
- Collaborated with AWS service teams to identify and escalate product bugs and feature gaps
- Helped customers design migration paths from on-premises databases to AWS managed services
IQVIA
Software Developer
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Built and maintained data platform solutions for healthcare and life sciences customers, focusing on data pipelines, warehousing, and governance.
- Developed and optimized data pipelines and ETL workflows using Snowflake, SQL, and cloud-based tools
- Contributed to data warehousing and migration projects, improving data reliability and query performance
- Implemented data governance practices to ensure compliance with healthcare data standards
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions
- Maintained and tuned relational databases including Oracle and SQL Server for large-scale analytical workloads
Wipro
SQL Database Administrator
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Administered and maintained SQL Server environments for enterprise clients, ensuring uptime, performance, and data integrity.
- Managed SQL Server instances including installation, configuration, patching, and upgrades
- Monitored database performance and implemented tuning strategies to reduce query latency
- Designed and maintained backup and recovery procedures to meet RPO and RTO requirements
- Supported database migrations and schema changes across dev, staging, and production environments
- Worked with application teams to resolve database-level issues and optimize stored procedures
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Achievements & Badges
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS Certified AI Practitioner
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Foundations of AI Agents
Become a Solutions Architect (BeSA)
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 Certified Foundations Associate
Oracle
Amazon DynamoDB Immersion Day Participant
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Blog
✦ ARTICLEInstalling the ADOT Collector on EKS: Every Trap I Hit, and How I Got Out
A start-to-finish walkthrough of installing the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry addon on EKS — cert-manager prereqs, the v1beta1 config gotcha, pod-density scheduling failures, and verifying traces actually land in X-Ray.
The conntrack DNS Race Condition in Kubernetes
Why your pods get random 5-second DNS timeouts — a deep dive into the Linux conntrack table, the A vs AAAA query race through iptables SNAT, how to confirm it with conntrack -S, and four remediation paths including NodeLocal DNSCache.
Networking // Field Manual
Networking // Field Manual
Five modules, one mantra. Move from packets on a wire to VPCs in the cloud, with a debugging arsenal in between. An interactive, offline-ready reference built for DevOps and cloud engineers.
▶ VIDEOHow do I use an EC2 instance to connect to a private RDS DB instance from a local machine?
A step-by-step walkthrough on securely connecting to a private Amazon RDS instance from your local machine using EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint — no bastion host or SSH tunnel required.
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