name: Deepak Kumar
role: DevOps Engineer → AI/ML Engineer (Converging)
location: Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪
education:
- degree: MSc Artificial Intelligence
institution: Dublin Business School, Ireland
status: Currently Enrolled
- degree: Masters in Computer Applications (MCA)
institution: AKTU University, India
experience: 7+ years in DevOps, SRE & Cloud Engineering
focus_areas:
- DevSecOps & GitOps
- AIOps & MLOps
- AI Agents & Agentic Workflows
- Generative AI & LLM Engineering
- Cloud Infrastructure at Scale
philosophy: "Automate everything. Secure by design. AI-first mindset."
languages: [English, Hindi]| 🤖 AI Domain | ☁️ DevOps Domain | 🔒 Security Domain |
|---|---|---|
| LLM Agents & MCP Servers | Zero-downtime CI/CD | DevSecOps Pipelines |
| RAG & GraphAI Systems | Infrastructure as Code | HashiCorp Vault |
| Generative AI Applications | Kubernetes Orchestration | Shift-Left Security |
| Reinforcement Learning | GitOps at Scale | Compliance Automation |
| NLP & Recommender Systems | Cloud-Native Architecture | Secrets Management |
🧬 Machine Learning → Supervised, Unsupervised, Ensemble Methods, Feature Engineering
🔮 Deep Learning → Neural Networks, CNNs, RNNs, Transformers, Attention Mechanisms
🎮 Reinforcement Learning→ Policy Optimization, Q-Learning, Agent-Environment Loops
💬 NLP → Text Classification, NER, Summarization, Sentiment Analysis
🤖 Generative AI → LLMs, RAG Pipelines, Prompt Engineering, Fine-tuning
🕸️ Graph AI → Knowledge Graphs, Graph Neural Networks, Neo4j
📊 Data Analysis → Pandas, NumPy, Statistical Modeling, EDA
🛍️ Recommender Systems → Collaborative Filtering, Content-Based, Hybrid Models
🤝 AI Agents → Agentic Workflows, Tool Use, Multi-Agent Systems
🔌 MCP Servers → Model Context Protocol, Agent Tool Integration
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ IMPACT AT A GLANCE │
├─────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 30% │ Reduction in development cycle time │
│ 35% │ Reduction in deployment failures │
│ 40% │ Reduction in operational task time (Bash) │
│ 7+ Years │ Enterprise DevOps & Cloud experience │
│ 5 Engineers │ Team led at Orange Business Services │
└─────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────┘
🟠 Orange Business Services — Sr. DevOps Engineer (Aug 2022 – Jan 2026)
- Designed zero-downtime CI/CD pipelines for SecretsAAS, a global secrets management platform
- Led a team of 5 DevOps engineers, delivering 30% faster development cycles
- Embedded DevSecOps into every pipeline stage — security as code, not an afterthought
- Automated infrastructure provisioning via Terraform + Ansible with full IaC test coverage
- Built and deployed Helm charts across Kubernetes clusters on Rancher & private cloud
- Implemented HashiCorp Vault for enterprise secrets management at Orange scale
- Drove Prometheus + Grafana observability with proactive alerting and incident automation
- Migrated legacy applications to Flexible Engine & Cloud Avenue (European private cloud)
🏅 Flash Award — Best Performer of the Year
🔵 NEC Corporation India — Sr. DevOps Engineer (Sep 2021 – Aug 2022)
- Managed production Kubernetes clusters via Rancher for Exastro and Cassiopeia projects
- Deployed Gitleaks, Trivy, SonarQube for shift-left security in containerized environments
- Reduced deployment failures by 35% through cross-functional CI/CD standardization
- Automated configuration management with Ansible across heterogeneous environments
🏅 Champion Award — Outstanding Performer
⚙️ Avis e Solution — System Engineer (Oct 2018 – Sep 2021)
- Built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins for NGUCC and Contaque projects
- Configured and hardened Linux servers (CentOS, Ubuntu, RHEL) for production workloads
- Managed VMware ESXi virtualization for resource optimization and scalability
| Certification | Issuer | Domain |
|---|---|---|
| ☁️ AWS Certified Solutions Architect | Amazon Web Services | Cloud |
| 🏗️ HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate | HashiCorp | IaC |
| 🌐 Diploma in Hardware, Networking & Cloud | Jetking | Infrastructure |
- 📍 Based in Dublin, Ireland — actively contributing to the Irish tech ecosystem
- 🇪🇺 Hands-on experience with European clients and GDPR-compliant infrastructure
- 🏦 Worked with Orange Business Services across European delivery teams
- 🌐 Familiar with EU data sovereignty, private cloud mandates (Flexible Engine, Cloud Avenue)
- 🤝 Strong cross-cultural collaboration experience across global distributed teams
current_studies = {
"program": "MSc Artificial Intelligence @ Dublin Business School",
"focus": [
"Large Language Models (LLMs) & Prompt Engineering",
"Agentic AI & Multi-Agent Systems",
"Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers",
"RAG Pipelines & Vector Databases",
"Graph AI & Knowledge Representation",
"Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)",
"AI for MLOps & AIOps Convergence",
"Recommender Systems at Scale",
"Natural Language Processing (NLP)",
"Generative AI Application Development"
],
"goal": "Bridge enterprise DevOps expertise with cutting-edge AI engineering"
}Click to expand complete skills matrix
| Category | Technologies |
|---|---|
| OS & Administration | Alpine, CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu |
| Agile & Collaboration | Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Jira, Confluence, Slack, Mattermost |
| Scripting & APIs | Bash/Shell, Python, HCL, Postman |
| Version Control | Git, GitLab, GitHub |
| CI/CD | GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Kaniko, Maven |
| Container Orchestration | Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Rancher, OpenShift |
| Secrets Management | HashiCorp Vault, Passbolt, Consul |
| IaC | Terraform, Ansible |
| Artifact Registries | Docker Hub, GitLab Container Registry |
| Monitoring | Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Kafka |
| Databases | MySQL |
| Security & Quality | Gitleaks, Trivy, SBOM, SonarQube, Semgrep, TestSSL |
| Cloud & Virtualization | AWS, VMware ESXi, Flexible Engine, Cloud Avenue |
| AI/ML | Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, LangChain, HuggingFace |
