CI/CD & Release Engineering
GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins and ArgoCD — build validation, quality gates, staged deployments, approvals and rollback.
Bengaluru, India · Open to DevOps & Cloud roles
Rohith Gowda R M
DevOps & Cloud Engineer
4+ years building CI/CD automation, cloud infrastructure and platform engineering on AWS and Azure with Kubernetes, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD and Jenkins — cutting release cycle time by 40% for a 35-member engineering organization.
About
Automation that removes toil and keeps releases predictable.
DevOps & Cloud Engineer with 4+ years of experience across CI/CD automation, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, release management and observability. Sole owner of CI/CD infrastructure for a 35-member engineering organization at Delta Electronics — cutting deployment effort by 50%, deployment failures by 30% and release cycle time by 40%. Recognized at Delta's IABG Global Innovation Event in Taiwan for leading enterprise-wide CI/CD modernization.
Cloud Platforms
AWS (EC2, EKS, IAM, VPC, Route53, ALB, S3) and Azure infrastructure supporting applications used by 100K+ users.
Containers & IaC
Docker, Kubernetes, EKS/AKS and Helm, with Terraform, OpenTofu and Terramate for reproducible infrastructure.
Observability & Ops
Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor and Application Insights for health tracking and incident response.
Skills
The stack I work with daily.
Tools chosen for production reliability — from cloud primitives to pipelines and observability.
Cloud
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- GCP (Fundamentals)
Containers
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Amazon EKS
- Azure AKS
- Helm
Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
- OpenTofu
- Terramate
Configuration Management
- Ansible
CI/CD & GitOps
- GitLab CI/CD
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- ArgoCD
- GitOps
- SonarQube
- Nexus
Scripting
- Bash
- Python
- PowerShell
Monitoring
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- OpenTelemetry
- Azure Monitor
- App Insights
Systems & VCS
- Linux
- Windows Server
- Git
- GitHub
- GitLab
Key projects
Platforms and pipelines I've built and owned.
DIAStudio Copilot Infrastructure
- Azure
- OpenTofu
- Terramate
- Azure Monitor
- Application Insights
- Owned Infrastructure as Code with OpenTofu and Terramate — Azure infrastructure, reusable modules, deployment plans and production operations for an AI-powered enterprise chatbot platform.
- Configured monitoring with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Application Insights for infrastructure health tracking, performance monitoring and incident response.
CI/CD Modernization Initiative
- GitLab CI/CD
- Jenkins
- SonarQube
- Nexus
- YAML
- Spearheaded organization-wide CI/CD modernization with YAML-based pipelines covering build, test, staged deployment, production approval gates, rollback and artifact management.
- Selected as organization innovation champion — presented at Delta IABG Global Innovation Event in Taiwan, 2026.
Distributed Remote Compilation Platform
- Azure Queue Storage
- Azure VM
- Blob Storage
- Built an asynchronous distributed execution platform enabling centralized APK generation without customer-side Visual Studio licensing.
- Average execution time of 5–6 minutes per job with centralized orchestration and automated artifact generation.
Journey
From application engineering to owning enterprise DevOps.
Each stage added one layer of automation, resilience or scale.
Stage 01
B.E. Electronics & Communication
MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru — CGPA 8.64 (2018–2022).
Stage 02
Software Design Engineer
Joined Delta Electronics in Mar 2022 building ASP.NET Core platform services for 100K+ users.
Stage 03
First automation wins
Jenkins CI/CD workflows, Selenium-driven QA automation and release engineering utilities.
Stage 04
Platform modernization
Migrated legacy ASP.NET MVC services to ASP.NET Core for containerization and pipeline readiness.
Stage 05
Move into DevOps
Promoted to Senior Software Design Engineer (DevOps) in Apr 2024, owning enterprise CI/CD.
Stage 06
GitLab CI/CD ownership
Standardized pipelines for a 35-member org — 50% less deployment effort, 30% fewer failures.
Stage 07
Containers & Kubernetes
Dockerized microservices and drove Kubernetes adoption with EKS, Helm and ingress patterns.
Stage 08
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform modules with S3 remote state and DynamoDB locking; OpenTofu and Terramate on Azure.
Stage 09
Observability & operations
Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor and Application Insights for health tracking and incident response.
Stage 10
Global innovation recognition
Presented enterprise CI/CD modernization at Delta IABG Global Innovation Event, Taiwan.
Achievements & education
Recognition and academic background.
Global Innovation Recognition — Taiwan
2026
Selected to represent the India engineering team and present the enterprise CI/CD modernization initiative at the Delta IABG Global Innovation Event.
Individual Excellence Award
2025
Recognized for contributions toward CI/CD modernization, deployment automation, DevOps innovation and release engineering improvements.
Delta Quarterly Champion
Q3 2024
Awarded for delivering enterprise platform improvements, automation initiatives and engineering productivity enhancements.
B.E. in Electronics & Communication Engineering
MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru
CGPA 8.64 · 2018 – 2022
CBSE Senior Secondary (Class XII)
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Doddaballapura
91% · 2016 – 2018
Experience
Where I've worked.
Apr 2024 — Present
DevOps Engineer (Senior Software Design Engineer)
Delta Electronics India Pvt. Ltd. · Bengaluru
- Designed and owned enterprise GitLab CI/CD pipelines with automated build validation, SonarQube quality gates, artifact management, staged deployments, rollback strategies and release orchestration across multiple production applications.
- Sole owner of CI/CD infrastructure for a 35-member engineering organization — reduced deployment effort by 50%, deployment failures by 30% and release cycle time by 40%.
- Containerized microservices with Docker and drove Kubernetes adoption through PoCs, deployment standardization, ingress configuration and operational best practices.
- Implemented Infrastructure as Code with Terraform — reusable modules, remote state on S3 and state locking with DynamoDB.
- Worked extensively with AWS EC2, EKS, IAM, VPC, Route53, ALB and S3; configured hosted zones, ALB integrations, Ingress controllers and custom domain routing.
- Architected a distributed execution platform on Azure Queue Storage, Azure VM and Blob Storage for centralized build orchestration and asynchronous workflows.
- Managed cloud-hosted enterprise applications supporting 100K+ users on Azure with a focus on availability and production stability.
- Introduced Git branching strategies, repository governance and webhook integrations; led knowledge-sharing sessions on Kubernetes, CI/CD and cloud-native engineering.
- Coordinated production deployments, incident response, hotfix releases and root-cause analysis; presented CI/CD modernization at Delta IABG Global Innovation Event, Taiwan.
Mar 2022 — Apr 2024
Software Design Engineer
Delta Electronics India Pvt. Ltd. · Bengaluru
- Developed enterprise applications and platform services with ASP.NET Core and C# for industrial automation systems used by 100K+ users.
- Implemented Jenkins-based CI/CD workflows for automated testing, deployment automation and production delivery.
- Optimized enterprise search to 150–200ms response times using ElasticSearch indexing, query optimization and full-text search techniques.
- Designed Azure AD B2C authentication, RBAC authorization models and enterprise identity workflows across web and desktop platforms.
- Automated QA validation and deployment activities with Selenium-based frameworks and release engineering utilities.
- Modernized legacy ASP.NET MVC services to ASP.NET Core, improving containerization readiness and CI/CD compatibility.
- Standardized API documentation with Swagger/OpenAPI, reducing integration overhead across teams.
Contact
Let's build reliable infrastructure together.
Open to DevOps, Cloud and Platform Engineering opportunities, and to collaborations on automation and infrastructure.