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
Cloud Engineer – Containers @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Feb 2026 – Present · 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
Tech Arsenal
Cloud & Containers
DevOps & IaC
Databases
Languages & Web
Featured Projects
QuizLens
Chrome extension that turns any public practice question into a structured breakdown — Answer, Why, per-option Elimination, and one memorable Key Rule. Highlight a question, hit Alt+Q, and a dark amber overlay slides in. Built for grinding AWS certification and CKA question banks without alt-tabbing between the quiz, docs, and ChatGPT.
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
✦ ARTICLEEvery CI Job Gets Its Own Kernel: GitHub Actions Runners on AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Building single-use, Firecracker-isolated GitHub Actions runners on the new Lambda MicroVMs primitive — architecture, full repro, and the snapshot-identity problem nobody talks about.
✦ 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.
✦ ARTICLEThe 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.
Videos
How 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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