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girdharv18/README.md

👨‍💻 About Me

I’m Nishant Girdhar, an AWS DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 8+ years of experience building, operating, and scaling high-availability, secure, and cost-efficient cloud platforms.

I focus on engineering excellence, automation at scale, and operational reliability — the things product companies and FAANG teams deeply care about.

  • ☁️ AWS cloud architecture & operations
  • 🧱 Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
  • 🔁 CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
  • 📊 Observability & SRE practices
  • 🔐 Cloud security (IAM, WAF, least-privilege)
  • 📈 Reliability, uptime, and performance ownership

🧩 Core Tech Stack

🚀 Engineering Impact (FAANG-Style)

  • 🏗️ Designed and operated AWS infrastructure with 99.9% uptime
  • ⚙️ Reduced deployment lead time by ~30% via CI/CD optimization
  • 💰 Implemented cost-optimization strategies (Auto Scaling, RI, Spot)
  • 🔐 Integrated HashiCorp Vault with Jenkins for secrets management
  • ☁️ Built fault-tolerant multi-AZ architectures
  • 📊 Improved system observability using CloudWatch & Datadog
  • 🧯 Troubleshot production incidents across networking, infra & apps
  • 👥 Mentored engineers and collaborated across product & infra teams

🧑‍💼 Experience

Infosys — Senior Consultant (Infrastructure Management) (Mar 2023 – Present)
  • Owned AWS infrastructure reliability and scalability
  • Built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins & GitHub
  • Delivered serverless workloads using AWS Lambda
  • Managed EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM & security groups
  • Applied DevOps & SRE best practices in production systems
Genpact — AWS Cloud Administrator (Oct 2020 – Mar 2023)
  • Designed HA & DR architectures
  • Managed VPCs, EC2, S3, DynamoDB
  • Implemented IAM security & monitoring
Accenture — L2 Desktop Support Engineer (Apr 2019 – Oct 2020)
  • Advanced troubleshooting for enterprise IT systems
  • Vendor coordination & asset management
Genpact — L1 Desktop Support Engineer (Jul 2017 – Apr 2019)
  • Network & system support (LAN/WAN/VPN)
  • Security patching & user support

🏅 Certifications

  • ✅ AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
  • ✅ Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

📈 GitHub Stats

🐍 GitHub Contribution Snake

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🤝 Let’s Connect

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